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Title: 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

3
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

4
Choose Your Ancestors
  • Choose a Family Surname
  • Look for old photos
  • Interview relatives
  • Interview questions
  • Record them
  • Take pictures

5
Organize Your Information
  • Computer software programs
  • Legacy Family Tree
  • PAF (Personal Ancestral file)
  • Use
  • Pedigree Charts
  • Family History Charts

6
Look for a Published History Already Compiled
  • Do a Web Search
  • Check with
  • Local library
  • LDS library
  • Local Genealogists

7
Search For Records
  • Census
  • Bible
  • Birth
  • Obituaries
  • Social Security Death Index
  • Marriage
  • Last Will and Testament
  • Diarys
  • Cemeteries

8
Share Your Information
  • Publish your work
  • Start a Family Reunion
  • Develop a website
  • Create a Newsletter

9
Famous Men Their Family History
  • President George Washington
  • Elvis Presley
  • Charles Lindberg
  • Brad Pitt
  • Albert Einstein
  • http//www.genealogy.com
  • http//www.ancestry.com

10
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
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