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Finding Your Roots

It is always fun to discover who are our grandparents, great-grandparents, etc, especially if they were popular and smart people in their times.

If you want to satisfy your curiosity about your ancestors, these are the steps you can follow. Reveal all the secrets you wish to know about your family by:

  1. Getting Started in Genealogy
    Do you know that there’s a study of family history? Yes, it’s called genealogy. It will unlock the door to what your family has lived through and provide you with a look at the world that they were exposed to. You’ll find that this is a very rewarding experience to be in.
  2. Working with the Living Members of Your Family
    Your family is a great source for genealogy research. The first thing that you will want to do is to work on names of ancestors by interviewing your families. What you’ll do next is to try to construct a family tree based on the names that have been given to you. In these interviews, you can also ask anything you want to know about your ancestors. For example, your relatives perhaps can tell you about the cities in which your family members grew up in or whether someone was in war. These are informational pieces that you can use to begin your journey into the past.
  3. Locating Sources for Genealogy Research
    Be creative in finding information. Using the web is absolutely a helpful effort. For example, if you learn that your mother’s grandfather was in the military, you may be able to find information on the web. You could use old military records or even find info about something that he did heroically. These small pieces will open up the puzzle of your genealogy.
  4. Taking Genealogy Research Further
    As mentioned before, using the internet’s wide resources is very advantageous. There are other ways to take the research: using the online databases provided by church organizations, using message boards, joining forums, and writing or looking for genealogy blogs. You probably couldn’t find the information you have been looking for by doing these, but at least they provide you with good advice on how to find your ancestors. If you become stuck and really want to track your family’s history, consider calling on a professional genealogical individual to help you in the pursuit. Often, they provide further information because they have the necessary resources already established to help you.
  5. Preserving Your Genealogy Research
    When you have taken time to do all the searches and collected so much information about your ancestors, it is now time to preserve all the data safely. Probably the best way for you to do this is to secure the information in a genealogy software program. This program will not only offer you a place to store all the valuable information that you have learned so far, but also help you get more solutions to your needs. Your genealogy means everything to you, and you must provide the best preservation for it.

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