2007-10-16 15:38:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
First and foremost, start with the people who are living. Find out what they know. Talk with aunts and uncles, cousins, and so on - anybody who is part of your family. Get dates, locations, names, memories, stories - it's ALL important. Find out what they remember about people who are no longer living, too. Put all your information into a database that will help you organize it. The Mormon church offers a free one, "Personal Ancestral File," that you can download from their web site (they won't bug you in terms of their religion). Once you have included as much as you can from people who are living, start to search online sites, records, etc., for matching people and events. Computers have revolutionized genealogy in the last two decades, and there are ENORMOUS amounts of data available, as well as innumerable personal genealogical web sites.
Good luck in your search!
http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10151&storeId=10151&categoryId=14000&langId=-1&cg1=13669&cg2=&cg3=&cg4=&cg5=.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default....
http://www.ancestry.com
2007-10-16 22:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancestry.com has some free charts that may be helpful, including tree charts and family group sheets. Check out: http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/ancchart.aspx?
2007-10-16 22:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by vrc84 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you dont need one, a little time on the net and i traced my family back 400 hundred years just work backwards with birth certificates marriages deaths etc
2007-10-16 22:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by muddyboy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://images.google.com/images?q=family+tree+template&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
2007-10-16 23:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
good question i woulg like to know too
2007-10-16 22:44:33 · answer #5 · answered by JOE 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋