Hello New Members!

Are you ready to write your family history? Well, if you have never really given much thought to researching your family heritage, no better time than the present. Not only can you learn about where your family came from, but you can also come up with a fantastic non-fiction or fictional story from the research you acquire. Every family has stories, some sad, some funny; some with interesting historial backgrounds, such as indian heritage, a distant relative who was a slave, or family who may have come from England or Spain...so many possibilities. And how wonderful to be able to share stories with your family, your children, and their children.

Genealogy is time consuming, many hours of research and analyzing papers, census records, marriage and death certificates, and even tax records. It can be boring and incredibly tedious. Yet, the easiest way to begin researching a family is recording the stories directly from your living relatives. Often this task is overlooked and can reveal so much about a family history. There are also online sites where you can retrieve much of the needed resources to begin your family tree. See the following links:

http://www.ancestry.com

http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome

http://www.genealogy.com/index_a.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

http://geneasearch.com/


I hope you decide to find out about your family history, who knows what kind of story you could come up with...have fun!


Until next time...
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