Steps to Find Your Family Tree
From grave transcripts to census records, millions of genealogical sources have been posted online in recent years, making the Internet a popular first stop in researching family roots. And with good reason. No matter what you want to learn about your family tree, there’s a good chance you can dig up at least part of it on the Internet.
However, it is not as simple as finding a database containing all the information about your ancestors and downloading it. Ancestral hunting is actually much more exciting than that! The trick is to learn how to use the various tools and databases the Internet provides to find facts and dates about your ancestors, and then go beyond that to fill in the stories of the lives they lived.
Visit the Cemetery
Continuing the search for death records, online grave transcriptions are another great source for information about your ancestors. Volunteers from … Read more