Getting to the Root of Your Family Tree
It may not have occurred to you to look into your family tree but if you decide to do this you need to first arm yourself with as much family knowledge as you can get from your parents, grandparents and other relatives.
Gather stories from family friends and neighbors who have lived nearby all of your life.
All of this information can come in handy when you start to put together your family tree.
Once you do that, log onto one of the family genealogy sites that is so popular these days: Ancestry.
com or Familytree.
com.
You will find that these sites offer you the ability to tap into so many different archives that you would not be able to locate all on your own.
Another great source of information is the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints or Mormon Church.
Each church has its own family resource center that is connected to the information in the main church in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As a part of each Mormon's coming of age, a family history is supposed to be done.
All of this information has been gathered and collated and is now in a large information center that can be accessed by everyone.
The Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of America are both social clubs that require a family tree in order to become a member.
In each case the person must trace her family back to a person either in the confederacy or in the American Revolution.
They are a great source of information, as well.
State archives and history centers have information that is available according to the laws that govern identity security.
Information about the people who immigrated to the United States can be found on Ellisisland.
com.
There is also a complete list of the people who came over on the Mayflower on line at Mayflower-.
history.
com.
This site even has a complete section on the history of the pilgrims and the property they settled in America.
In your search for information for your family tree you might find that things actually aren't like they were in your mind.
You may find relatives that you didn't even know you had.
What else can you learn while researching your family tree? You can find out how many people are in the family, the professions of the father and mother and address from the census records that are available.
From looking at birth certificates you can find out the age of the parents, where they were from and in some states, if there were other children in the family.
You can find out ages at marriage from marriage certificates.
In some cases there are going to be previous family trees in the records for you to use to research yours.
If you become good at what you are doing, you can trace your family as far back as records are available.
Take into consideration misspellings of your family surname when you are searching and always do a soundex search so that you can check out names that sound similar to yours.
Gather stories from family friends and neighbors who have lived nearby all of your life.
All of this information can come in handy when you start to put together your family tree.
Once you do that, log onto one of the family genealogy sites that is so popular these days: Ancestry.
com or Familytree.
com.
You will find that these sites offer you the ability to tap into so many different archives that you would not be able to locate all on your own.
Another great source of information is the Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints or Mormon Church.
Each church has its own family resource center that is connected to the information in the main church in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As a part of each Mormon's coming of age, a family history is supposed to be done.
All of this information has been gathered and collated and is now in a large information center that can be accessed by everyone.
The Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of America are both social clubs that require a family tree in order to become a member.
In each case the person must trace her family back to a person either in the confederacy or in the American Revolution.
They are a great source of information, as well.
State archives and history centers have information that is available according to the laws that govern identity security.
Information about the people who immigrated to the United States can be found on Ellisisland.
com.
There is also a complete list of the people who came over on the Mayflower on line at Mayflower-.
history.
com.
This site even has a complete section on the history of the pilgrims and the property they settled in America.
In your search for information for your family tree you might find that things actually aren't like they were in your mind.
You may find relatives that you didn't even know you had.
What else can you learn while researching your family tree? You can find out how many people are in the family, the professions of the father and mother and address from the census records that are available.
From looking at birth certificates you can find out the age of the parents, where they were from and in some states, if there were other children in the family.
You can find out ages at marriage from marriage certificates.
In some cases there are going to be previous family trees in the records for you to use to research yours.
If you become good at what you are doing, you can trace your family as far back as records are available.
Take into consideration misspellings of your family surname when you are searching and always do a soundex search so that you can check out names that sound similar to yours.
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