Genealogy
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Fun Activities to Go with Your Genealogy
Oct 18
Working on genealogy is a hobby and a very rewarding one. However, there are fun activities that complement this hobby. First, would be making a special exhibit of your newly created family tree. It may not be completed, but even with a small start, it makes a nice display. Many places in craft stores and online genealogy supply sites have ar...
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Investigating an Ancestor’s Siblings
Oct 18
In the early stages of researching your ancestors, you keep with the direct lineage, those parents, grandparents, etc. However, you can early on run into a roadblock on a certain relative. There is a grandfather on your mother’s side in which you can not locate any of the basic data. Change the approach and look at other branches of that generati...
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Research the Hometowns of Your Ancestors
Oct 18
A family’s ancestral home can be a rural village, a small town, a medium-sized city or a large metropolis. Learning about the particular location; its people, occupations, traditions and history can give a researcher enormous insight into their own family. Traditionally individuals and their descendants remained in a given region for decades ...
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Link Up with Researchers Interested in Your Surname
Oct 18
Family history researchers with the same surname you’re investigating can produce some of the most valuable sources by reaching out to link up. Between family heirlooms, diaries and Bible records to the research done by other people, a wealth of information can be learned and shared. The following are some of the most fruitful places to start ...
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Learning Details about a Beloved Ancestor
Oct 18
After you have started investigating into your family history, you could develop a kindred feeling or spiritual bond with a certain ancestor. You may have known them when you were younger or they could have lived years before your birth. It is this unusual connection and longing to learn as much as possible about a particular relative that almost...
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Interviewing a Relative. 11 Key Questions to Ask.
Oct 18
One of the best sources for information and especially family stories are living relatives. Once you have created your basic pedigree chart, time should be spent interviewing relatives who might be able to add a significant amount of details to your chart. The following is suggestions on how to approach the interview and what questions may possibly...
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Steps Along the Genealogy Path
Oct 18
When first beginning your genealogy search you may feel a bit overwhelmed by the vastness of documenting so many relatives. Look at it as a journey, one step at a time along a path and you will eventually reach your goals. The first thing needed is to create a basic pedigree chart, listing your parents, grandparents, great parents as best you ca...
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Best Subscription or Fee Genealogical Websites
Oct 18
There is a vast assortment of websites created over the last 15 years to aid the genealogical researcher. The following is an essential list of fee-based web sites that should become familiar to every researcher. The major advantage for using a subscription database is the time it saves rather than writing to repositories, churches, libr...
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A Beginner’s Genealogy Questions
Oct 18
With so Many People having already done research, wouldn’t there already be a book written on my Family History? There are thousands of published and unpublished family histories in various localities. Regional and local genealogy societies get donations of family histories. Public libraries and the Library of Congress also have a collection o...
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Discovering Those Elusive Relatives
Oct 18
Many hours are expended gathering the names, dates and locations for your family pedigree chart, along with verifying the information. However, there are always a few blanks, those relatives for whom all you know is the name; “Grandpa Frank.” Or worse, you have no name of any form, just a total blank in your lineage. There are also the situatio...