{"product_id":"2940014436106","title":"How To Uncover Your Genealogy","description":"Research And Effort Methods\u003cbr\u003eThe process of learning about your family is likely to be one that offers several key searches.\u003cbr\u003eYou’ll use a wide range of these methods to get to the answers you need.\u003cbr\u003eTypes of relationships among your family members will include kinship to various groups or\u003cbr\u003eassociations.\u003cbr\u003eA surname search is called a one name study which will only give you details about a certain\u003cbr\u003efamily name, passed down over time.\u003cbr\u003eA small community, village or even church parish may offer help in the research methods. This\u003cbr\u003ealso includes a one place study, which is just a search of on location’s family lines.\u003cbr\u003eOr, you can use a particular person to search for, for example trying to use your family’s history\u003cbr\u003eto connect to another person’s family.\u003cbr\u003eThe truth is that you’ll likely need to go through many of these methods to find the answers that\u003cbr\u003eyou need. In many ways, it’s a process of looking where you didn’t know you needed to look for\u003cbr\u003eanswers regarding your family.\u003cbr\u003eEven if your family doesn’t have any known connection to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter\u003cbr\u003eDay Saints, commonly known as LDS, you may still be able to use their records to help you to\u003cbr\u003elearn about your family.\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 1900’s, this group worked hard to create a program of moving all of their available\u003cbr\u003erecords on ancestry into the valuable tool of microfilm. They placed all records they had in this\u003cbr\u003emedium, to safeguard them. In addition to this, they also created an index that was used to\u003cbr\u003ekeep track of all of their members.\u003cbr\u003eThese two undertakings were large, thorough and would become one of the best tools for\u003cbr\u003egenealogical searches today. Today, these two projects have been folded together and are in\u003cbr\u003etwo databases that are readily accessible.\u003cbr\u003eHow To Uncover Your Genealogy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe International Genealogical Index, which is known as IGI, is a tool that can be used. It is a\u003cbr\u003etranscription record of filmed civil and ecclesiastic records. These records have come from\u003cbr\u003evarious locations from cooperating local areas around the world.\u003cbr\u003eThe other database that you can use is known as the Ancestral File or just simply AF. This\u003cbr\u003edatabase is used to collect the information about the member’s contributions over time.\u003cbr\u003eSo, how can these databases help you? First off, the IGI is one of the best records of old birth\u003cbr\u003eand marriage records from the LDS. It has records of those that have been born, died and\u003cbr\u003emarried starting from well back to 1500. Most of this information is from the United States,\u003cbr\u003eEurope and Canada.\u003cbr\u003eGenerally, information regarding members has been able to reveal quite a bit about family\u003cbr\u003eancestry from these resources.\u003cbr\u003eHow can you use the LDS’s collection of information? In Salt Lake City, Utah the collection of\u003cbr\u003ethese microfilms is located. The resources are located at the Family History Library which has a\u003cbr\u003evast collection of information regarding the entire society.\u003cbr\u003eYet, you don’t have to travel there to find them. There are branches (some 4000 of them)\u003cbr\u003earound the country and world that can offer you help.\u003cbr\u003eYou can visit these locations, request information or even rent information for your on site\u003cbr\u003eresearch needs. In fact, they have expanded this search ability to the internet as well. You can\u003cbr\u003evisit the collection at this location at FamilySearch.org.\u003cbr\u003eHow To Uncover Your Genealogy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreating A Family Tree\u003cbr\u003eYou have two options. First off, you can use just paper and your notes to create your family\u003cbr\u003etree, which will look like a tree with all of its branches. But, this is hard to keep organized and\u003cbr\u003ecan be a good tool if it is used correctly and managed.\u003cbr\u003eThe other option that you have is Family Tree Software products which can help you to\u003cbr\u003edetermine an effective, electronic method of managing your family tree. In a later chapter we\u003cbr\u003ewill talk more about how software can aid you in the process of uncovering your family tree. It’s\u003cbr\u003eimportant, though to consider it as a tool for organization if not for finding your family members.\u003cbr\u003ePlacing the names of those people that you have learned about on your family tree is a process\u003cbr\u003ethat requires a good eraser. It will be fun to put the pieces together, but it will also be difficult to\u003cbr\u003eorganize.\u003cbr\u003eTips For Managing Your Family Tree\u003cbr\u003eThese tips will help you to get your family tree up and running. Your goal is to do the best that\u003cbr\u003eyou can to keep it organized, so that it is easy for you to use later.\u003cbr\u003eGroup each person by the family that they belong to. If they have more than one connection,\u003cbr\u003eplace these families near each other, and show their relation.\u003cbr\u003eGroup families by how they are related. 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