Starting Your Family History - A Beginner's Guide
Family history is easy to get started, especially if you've still got older generation relatives to pester with questions. The first person you start with, however, is yourself. Write down all the pertinent facts about you: birthdate & place, who you married and when, the birthdates & names of your children if you have them. Add any sisters or brothers to your list and then start on your parents. You'll need their full names, when they married, when & where they were born, their brothers and sisters, and their parents. Here's where it starts to get tricky. As your list grows longer it becomes harder to keep track of all the info. A simple way of doing this is to keep records of statistics for each individual on a separate page while also keeping a record of your direct line of ancestry. You can either invest in family history software, which you can get quite cheap [or expensive, whichever you prefer] or you can do it all on paper. A simple search of family hist...