Climbing Your Family Tree

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Climbing Your Family Tree

• By Kathy Coppola

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• What is Genealogy?
• Genealogy is the study and tracing of family
  pedigrees.
• This involves collecting the names of relatives,
  both
• living and deceased, and establishing the
  relationships
• between them based on primary, secondary and/or
• circumstantial evidence or documentation, thus
  building
• up a cohesive family tree. ...
• Genealogy." Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
• lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogygt

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Getting Started

• Choose your ancestor to research
• Organize your information
• Look for a published history already completed
• Search for records
• Share your information with others
• Resources

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Choose Your Ancestors

• Choose a Family Surname
• Look for old photos
• Interview relatives
• Interview questions
• Record them
• Take pictures

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Organize Your Information

• Computer software programs
• Legacy Family Tree
• PAF (Personal Ancestral file)
• Use
• Pedigree Charts
• Family History Charts

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Look for a Published History Already Compiled

• Do a Web Search
• Check with
• Local library
• LDS library
• Local Genealogists

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Search For Records

• Census
• Bible
• Birth
• Obituaries
• Social Security Death Index
• Marriage
• Last Will and Testament
• Diarys
• Cemeteries

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Share Your Information

• Publish your work
• Start a Family Reunion
• Develop a website
• Create a Newsletter

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Famous Men Their Family History

• President George Washington
• Elvis Presley
• Charles Lindberg
• Brad Pitt
• Albert Einstein
• http//www.genealogy.com
• http//www.ancestry.com

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Famous Women Their Family History

• Princess Diana
• Betsy Ross
• Bette Midler
• Laura Bush
• Grace Kelly
• http//www.genealogy.com
• http//www.ancestry.com

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Online Resources

• Ancestory.com
• Heritagequest.com
• Interment.net
• Social Security Death Index
• Census.gov