How To Research Your Ancestors For A Family Tree

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Genealogy has become a popular pastime. Searching for ancestors can be
fun and an interesting way to learn about history. While looking for
your ancestors you will learn about the time and place in which they
lived. How politics, wars, and economics affected their lives. It will
give you history on a more personal level.
The easiest way to start your search is to interview your living
relatives. Often there is one elder aunt, uncle, or grandparent that
knows a lot of information about the family. The first questions to
ask are dates of births, deaths, and marriages. In any family search
this type of information is the most commonly found; these events that
have been recorded somewhere outside the family and will have public
records. Full names are also essential. There could be fifty men named
John Jones born in New York City, in 1906. Therefore you have to be
very specific on which one you are looking for.
Learning about your family and where they came from can answer
questions you may have about family traditions that have been passed
through the family. Maybe your whole life you wondered why grandma
baked braided sweet bread only at Christmas. Then you learn through
your search it is an old German tradition that started several
hundreds years ago. It is something she grew up with and has always
done without really knowing why. And know you can tell her how it
started....

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