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How to begin your Genealogy Research
- Begin with these materials: Loose leaf binder, paper, dividers, pedigree chart, family group sheet, research log, page protectors.
- Beginning with yourself, fill in as much information as you can on the pedigree chart.
- Get all the additional information you can find from your records, papers, relatives, and family friends. Look for any records you can find. Ask questions about names, birth dates, deaths, marriages, place of residence, Military service, church attendance, land owned, etc
- As you go, on your research log, record sources of all information, including that which was given to you by individuals.
- Fill out family group sheets for individual families.
- Put information about each family into a separate section of your binder, or
keep a separate binder for each family. Place documents in page protectors.
- Search for some compiled records (family histories, family trees, genealogies). Try the Internet, Family History Center, libraries, genealogical and historical societies.
- Identify some missing information to search for.
Five tips for searching
- Start with yourself and work back. (Work from the known to the unknown).
- Never skip a generation
- Search for Who, What, Where and When.
- Record each piece of information on your research log.
- Continually verify each fact.
- Search the United States Federal census records.
Census facts:
1790 – the first U.S. Federal census
1850 – The first to list names of all individuals
1890 - 99+% was destroyed
Households are listed by location, in enumeration districts
Look in compiled indexes to locate page numbers on original census
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