Research Family History

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Research Family History



Researching your family history is a fascinating enterprise. It offers more than an amusing pastime because the subjects of your search are people you may have heard family stories about or inherited heirlooms from. The internet has many sites and resources to help you. After you exhaust the internet information, or if you hit a brick wall, you may want to try the local library or newspaper.

It is simple to begin your project. Make a list of all the family members you can find. Try to get everyone in the correct grouping of parents and children. The more you have the better your chance of finding a limb of your family tree. There are a multitude of websites that can be valuable that are absolutely free. usgenweb.org is a very good beginning. It is broken down by states and counties. You can search family names in newspaper archives, birth and death records, marriage records, public official rosters, soldier lists, pension lists, land records, and census records.

Another free site is the Family History Library maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. It holds the 1880 Federal Census transcription as well as contributions of data from individuals. It is the most voluminous genealogical collection available. This data is not verified and may be incomplete or even wrong, but it is a very good place to begin. In cities where there is a Mormon Church there may also be a Family History Library. They are free and have the subscription based connections that I did not want to pay for. They will order microfilm of resources from their headquarters in Salt Lake City that you are able to use for free.

Rootsweb.com is also a free resource which is cross referenced with Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com does require a subscription fee, but I make sure they have something I want to pursue before I spend money. There is a subscription that some libraries may have that gives access to all the Federal Censuses since 1790. It is presented in the original handwriting. In this format, there is less likelihood of errors; however, it is quite demanding to read the writing of our forebears. The library may even give you the access code so that you can use it at home.

On the county sites there may be "look-up volunteers" listed that will verify facts or seek information from sources that are not digitized. If you use them, it is polite to pay for expenses they have in searching your information. Those sites also have pages where you can enter the family name you are researching with your email with the intent of making contact with others who are searching the same family tree. One of the most challenging issues of doing family research is keeping track of who everyone is and where they fit into your tree. Keep good records. You may find you need software to do this chore. There are excellent products available. Do not let this task deter you. You will create a record of family history that will thrill you and that you can share with all your relatives.

I have done family research on my own family and my husband's family. I found it exciting to locate a family member in a church record or a cemetery because that person became real to me. I also enjoyed placing them in a historic period or event. I found connections to famous and infamous people, but it was all exciting. Good Hunting!

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