Our family tree now12/30/2023 ![]() Your relatives should be able to point you in the right direction. So, it’s worth considering asking them for help. Aren’t smartphones handy?įriends of the family can also assist you with your research. Or, you may want to take a picture with your phone when you interview your relatives. That’s if they don’t mind you taking the originals with you. You may though need to take photocopies of anything that they can supply you with on your quest for knowledge. They can give you details such as your ancestors’ names as well as places and dates that I discussed above.Īnd they can provide you with evidence to back up this information, such as certificates, records, letters, and even old family photographs as well. The great benefit of asking your relatives for help is that it is free! Your relatives, particularly the older members of your family can assist you greatly with your research. You need to learn to take your time and not to take too big a step on your family history journey. But genealogy can be addictive as you will discover. You may not be as obsessed with discovering your ancestry as I was when I first began my journey. And thus working through census records to go further down the branches to as recent times as possible.Ĭarrying out this research helped me to prove how these newfound connections were related to me. I probably did get carried away by exploring the descendants of my ancestors’ siblings. That is a great benefit as it will help you to fill in the gaps in your knowledge. This is great as I have been able to share my research with them and learn about my ancestry from them as well. One thing that I was interested in when researching my family tree was the possibility of connecting with distant cousins.Īnd I have been able to do that. ![]() Your ancestors will come from an array of different places, and even different countries. It will be impressive as you look over your tree where your ancestors came from, where they married and where they died. You may want to include in your tree where these events took place as I have done. The dates that I was after were the usual vital pieces of information such as birth, marriage, and death. My initial steps when starting on my family history journey were to create a tree with names and dates. ![]() What I mean by the scope is how much information do you want to collect about your ancestors.Īnd also whether you want to consider siblings and cousins. When I talk about the scope of your family tree I am not necessarily talking about the size as I discussed in the previous section. Some branches WILL be easier to research than others. This is definitely the case with my tree, but I am still working on it and hopefully, I will be able to find those elusive ancestors. ![]() But with others, you may not be able to go further than 5 levels deep, or even further. You may go back 7 or more generations along certain branches of your tree. There will therefore be gaps in your tree which you may not be able to fill. It’s all part of genealogy research that you will need to learn to accept. ![]() You will encounter brick walls in your research. You can learn more about the number of ancestors that you have by checking out this informative post – How Many Ancestors Do We Have? Some ancestors you won’t find And going back to your 2nd great-grandparents it will be 31 people. If you go back one more generation to your great-grandparents this number will grow to 15. A tree this small will contain only 7 people. Most people should be able to create a tree that includes their grandparents. GenerationĪs you can see from the table above the number of people in your tree grows fast the more generations that you want to explore. You need to realize that the further back that you do go that the more people you will need to find and put in your tree. Express Your Thoughts Below! I would love to hear from you.īefore I even show you how to make your family tree it’s first important to think about how far back that you would like to go. ![]()
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