Geneology Online For Dummies
Chapter One
You Gotta Have Groundwork
In This Chapter
* Interviewing your family
* Finding genealogical records in your home
* Using official records to discover your ancestors
* What you can find at Family History Centers
You're not going to believe it when we tell you this, but the first thing to do
when researching your family history online doesn't involve a computer.
That's right, you don't even need to flip that switch. Start by collecting some
basic information about your family the "old-fashioned" way - interviewing
relatives, digging through trunks in the attic, and visiting some better-known
places for records. Then you can use some of this basic information to guide
your research and help you make decisions about the quality of the information
you find online.
WARNING
Before we get too far down the path, we need to caution you that you can't
complete your entire family history online. We say this not only to avoid the
scorn of experienced genealogists, but we also want to make sure that your
expectations of online research are appropriate. While you can find a lot of
records online and the number of original records ava ... read full excerpt from Genealogy Online For Dummies, 4th Edition ebook
