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Starting Your Genealogy Search
Searching for your long lost great great grandfather and mother can be really fun even if you are not a history student. Tracing the family tree can be real fascinating and interesting as you will discover so much about your family history. There are even some who see close resemblances to ancestors as well as parallelisms in life events.
Still, even with the help of technology, searching for our ancestors can be like searching for a needle in the haystack. Unless you have special powers, you would not be able to easily complete your family tree. Below are some tips that will help you get started in your genealogy mission.
Get information from your parents
Two of the first line sources of information that you need to make use of are your parents. They will be able to tell you the names of the their grandfathers and mothers and may even provide information on their great great grandparents. This will be a great head start for you. Names can be easily traced through records in public libraries and local registries. You can also ask them everything they know about your family tree. Places where your ancestors lived or even the countries where they were born. These pieces of information will help narrow your search and will provide you with sufficient clue to search for missing links.
Find out if there are relatives that did some genealogy search
This can be really important because you can actually combine your research or you can actually continue what has already been started. This is especially good if the relative that made the genealogy search belong to an older generation. He or she will be able to also give you tips on where to look and what resources to use.
Visit your oldest living relative
Another great source of information is your oldest living relative provided of course that he or she is coherent enough to share with you some information about the family.
Look at old photo albums and documents
Looking at photo albums will provide you with a lot of names and places where you can start your search. If you have attics at your family or ancestral home, make a visit and look for old documents that will help you in your search. Often, documents such as birth certificates, death certificates, marriage contracts and even diaries are great sources of information.
Know about some of your family stories
Every family has a tale to tell. One of the richest source of information that will help you in your search and will also provide some degree of excitement and fascination about the whole thing are stories about your family ancestors. Was your family notorious? Were their horse thieves in your family tree? How many served in the military? Did any of your ancestors bring great honor to your family?
Use the world wide web
Perhaps one of the most convenient invention in this generation is the computer, where all sorts of information can be found. If you already have the surnames of the people in your family tree, one thing that you can do is to search for the surname. This can show you some of the people that are also doing the same kind of research as you do.
Contact possible family members
With hundreds and thousands of people with the same surname, it would be really difficult to find someone through phone and internet directories but still it is worth a shot. With today’s technology, communication is faster and less expensive. If you have the patience, you can actually send a message to these people to ask them about their family tree. Mention that you are conducting a search of your own family tree.
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