Since genealogy is my hobby, my profession and my passion, a lot of people ask me where to start. What are the basic elements to create a family? Here are some tips that can help you find your family in the best possible conditions.
organize: I started working on the tree for almost 30 years to write your name in a brown paper bag. It is now 20,000 people in my family tree? about 3,000 have shown to my satisfaction. Your tree can not grow great, but it is important independent body.
<ul> <li> Documents: I suggest that you get a ring with three tabs a dividend to dispose of documents found. You do not have to be fancy, but you can add folders when one is no longer enough. If you're like me, you have to go to May file cabinet later. </ Li> <li> Software: You really need some form of electronic filing system as well. There are a number of software available at very competitive prices and free. There are good opportunities for Macintosh and PC. Just make sure the software includes the collection of these characteristics. . . <ul> <li> compatibility Gedcom: Gedcom file format is a standard that is used by all programs and genealogy can tell you one of these files with A. GED associated with the extension. If you get lucky and find a parent who has already done the job, you want to import their data on the computer. For this reason, the software must be able to handle. </ Li> <li> footnotes: Even if you only moderately successful, it will be a few hundred people in his family. Each will have several events that took place during his life? birth, marriage, graduation, death, burial, etc. As a result, will bring together thousands of bits of information, and it is impossible to remember how you got the information, without the ability to add notes . They will tell you where you got the information, when you got, and how it is reliable. </ Li> <li> media, as names, dates and places May be quite satisfactory, there's nothing quite like a photograph, recording or film to be joined by their families live. Software should allow you to store this information on the right side with other information. This May seem to be an option, but he was happy to see you at a later date. </ Li> <li> online publication: Not all want to put their information on the Internet, but it is a great way to share with the whole family in the world and find parents who n ' would never have found otherwise. I took a photo in a shoebox that I inherited from my mother and the back was written, the boy's uncle Alonzo. Uncle Alonzo was one of my genealogical brick walls. I had another piece of information on Uncle Alonzo, and thus the image of his son on my site. Two years later, a man named David called me and said it was the uncle of the boy Alonzo - an emotional experience for both. Nearly all programs include the ability to screen people who live so you can operate without the concerns of identity theft or other security issues. <li> online applications: Consider using an online form proper follow his family instead of software. This type of system allows to update your three libraries, at home or elsewhere in the world. This type of agreement also provides a built-in backup system of data and puts you in a good position to publish its three later. </ Li> </ ul> </ li> </ ul> Gather information: List everything you know about your family or information that you enter the new software. Start with yourself, then your parents, brothers and sisters, spouses and children. Initially you want to record names, places and dates of births, marriages, deaths and other actions that you know about each person.
<ul> <li> maintenance of his family: Talk with family members to check and correct information. To find out if they have documentation of events that you signed as birth certificates, marriage licenses, church records, photos or an old family Bible. Ask him if you know someone in the family or to save the historical documents have a family history. Discover the basic information about your family? names, dates and places of events. If there are photos without names, dates and places written about them? take the time to do it now. Buy an acid-free pen for almost any local store for this task. It is also a good time to write interesting stories about your family? either with a video recorder or films. The notes are too thin is that if all you have available. Update information in their software and check everything you write? even if the source is the interview with Aunt Agnes Boudreau August 25, 2005? you need to know that, later, told him that if you can assess the value of the information you have. </ Li> <li> Web Search: First, you want to try to find someone who has done the job. <ul> <li> Church LD: One of the best places to start is a Web site, which is owned by the Mormon Church. Do not worry if you're not a member of the church. The family is an important part of their faith, and the data are accessible to all. In the http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp and enter the information you know about your family, click search to see if they have any information about his family. Some of this information is public information, which is often true and some are supplied by members of the church that May or May not be true. Use this information as a guide, you know the names, places and dates to do more research. </ Li> <li> the USA: If you have solid information on a report in USA, you should try href = http://www.usgenweb.org/ - a group of volunteers which provides free information through a network of web sites which are quite the region. I love their country in search http://www.rootsweb. com / ~ usgenweb / newsearch.htm better than the rest of the region. They have a number of census records which are good places to take your family tree back a generation. In the last census are grouped by families, so you can see a person of parents and where they were born. A gap in usGenWeb is that you can not find a very specific research and the region do not know the difference between Smith and blacksmith. Accordingly, you get a variety of viewpoints that have not even been using for his family - which is sometimes tedious work pays off. It is a problem with most sites there, not only usGenWeb. To further complicate the issue, most sites are not your search criteria, so that when you return to check to see if they have more than one year or two, you have to go through the long list again. Sucre.
one of the brightest on the Internet is that EllisIsland.org - a good place to see if their ancestors immigrated to the USA by Ellis Iceland. </ Li> World: there are organizations in most countries which are similar to those listed in USA. Typically, a Google search on the word genealogy and the name of the country, you will find some good places to start looking. If you want to look around the world, take a look at FamilyTrackers.com. </ Li> <li> Networks: There are a number of networks and bulletin board sites where people stop information that is sought. The best you can search specifically by name, date and place, while others do the keyword search, which usually gives too many results to read. If the site is to find one of them, write a brief message on the person you're looking, and include the exact, exact location and exact time frame when you know you were there. To be very precise information with name, date, place and manner that people are navigation whether to tell or not. Topics such as My Family or grandmother is not very useful, and almost nobody reads. Instead of using something like Hall, 1743 Rockbridge William County, Virginia, USA. If the site is particularly helps you search long enough, research and read some posts here to see if you can contact a relative distance that can help. </ Li> </ ul> </ li> </ ul> Join your local genealogical or historical society: Even if you're not really looking for parents in the immediate area, local community is an ideal place to learn, network, and make a positive contribution. You'll meet people with plenty of experience that can guide and have a better genealogist? and a better person.
mail: Nothing is more satisfying to help someone else find their roots and one of the best ways to do that is to publish its findings.
<ul> <li> Its tree: If you selected the software, to publish the tree should be relatively easy? still a learning process for many of us. Be sure not to publish information on the Internet on people who still live. If you are unsure whether a person is still alive, you can assume that they are still alive if they were born within 100 years and have no date of death in their software. The best programs do it automatically for you when you set your preferences. </ Li> <li> their sources: Another good thing to do is to publish its sources - backup copy of your documents binder rings. It contains birth certificates, deeds, census records, etc., which usGenWeb sites and their local communities are good places to take into account when issuing documents like these. Again, you should avoid the publication of information on people who live for security reasons. If you're interested in achieving a world - large public or to donate their communities, should consider http://www.familytrackers.com/. You can load information, distribute free or make a donation to the product of your choice. </ Li> </ ul> Search strategies: As you work with your family, you can go back in time from one generation to a time of any document on the fly. When you follow a branch insofar as it can begin to apply when the oldest person in your life.
brick walls: When does not find more information about an individual to determine his or her parents or other family members, it is called a wall bricks. When this happens to you - and what - - Do not give. It's just a question of patience, luck and skill. The best advice I can do on a wall is back to basics; seen in the last position, and when you know that this person was and start from there. Moreover, trying to find genealogists connect to this person another row - his cousins. Even if you May not prove a direct link parent / child with his ancestors, May you be able to prove the father / son / brother to one of his cousins. Gene Hall is an avid genealogist with more than 25 years of experience with family research and CEO of FamilyTrackers, Inc. World-Wide Exchange Genealogy located at http:// http://www.familytrackers. com / www.familytrackers. com /
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