How to gather information about ancestors, interview the elders, keep heritage documents, and bring family history alive for the generations to come.
21 articles published in 4 categories.
Building a family tree looks like a daunting job, but it is really one step repeated many times over: find a name, confirm it, and move to the next one. Step 1: Start with yourself Do not start with...
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Every family has one person who remembers everything. When that person goes, the average family loses three generations of information in a single day. Before you begin Record the conversation on you...
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Almost every family that begins recording its lineage asks this. The short answer: four to six generations, with moderate effort. Generations 1 to 3: straightforward Yourself, your parents and your g...
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Every family tree needs one thing before anything else: a way of saying who sits on which level. Without it, "great-grandparent on my mother's side" and "great-grandparent on my father's side" blur in...
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It happens more often than people expect: two people who have never met each build a family tree, and at some point realise that an ancestor in both records is the same person. Why a merge cannot be...
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Every large family has one person who runs the annual gathering, and that person usually spends more time chasing answers than planning the event. The real problem is not the invitation Invitations a...
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Family memory gives you the stories. Official records give you dates you can rely on — because they were written down close to the day the event happened, not forty years afterwards. What the Nationa...
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These guides help, but a family tree only exists once the first name is entered. Start on the free plan.
