Polly Ann Lewis - Genealogy Genealogy Research For Beginners Introduction To Genealogical Records And Techniques Lessons 1-7

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Introduction

Genealogy is a passion. Do you have apassion that you just can't live without? Genealogy can bevery additive, so if you don't think you will mind turning yourhouse into a library, staying up all hours of the night doing agenealogy search for that illusive Uncle Ben, running our hubby orwife all over the country searching for dead relatives, and livingwith the dead more than the living, you are reading the right bookto start your family genealogy research right now. Yourgenealogy family tree is going to be growing roots andsprouting branches all over the world as soon as you start theresearch into your ancestry. Your family tree andfamily history will all be found in all the genealogyrecords you will be digging up as soon as you, the beginnergenealogist, learn how to collect, bag and examine all thefamily history and family history genealogy for yourfamily tree.

As your genealogy family tree starts togrow, your passion for genealogy will become just like mine.My genealogy family history tree started off small, but nowit is huge with all my family history genealogy. Mygenealogy now reaches from the shores of Scotland, Englandand Ireland to the Great American States of Virginia, NorthCarolina, Georgia and Florida.

As a beginner in genealogy, you are going tolearn where the genealogical records are, how to secure them, howto use them and how to do further research on your family treealong with using the family tree maker to enter all yourgenealogical records. You will learn how to search the immigrationand naturalization genealogy records and these records are going tobe of great value to you as a genealogical researcher.

I am writing this book for one reason only, togive you, the beginner family researcher, a good introduction intobeginning genealogical record research and teach you the techniques for successful genealogysearches . I will introduce you to your first tools ingenealogy, such as census records, church records, militaryrecords, probate records, land records, journals, family treesoftware and vital records. Before you learn anything else ingenealogy you need to know where, how, what and when to get yourgenealogy records for your family tree.

I have been researching my family tree for manyyears now, and I believe in solving our genealogical problems justas a good detective would. You must become a good detective toreach your goals for filling in your family tree.

Are you ready to be a genealogist and join thefamous worldwide class of genealogy detective's first class? Thenlet us get started with our beginner's study course ongenealogy.

Table Of Contents

Chapter One

Lesson 1 Beginners Genealogy Where ToStart First

Genealogy research always begins withYOU. You are the most important piece of yourfamily tree. So go look in the mirror and say it's me, sayyour name and you have started the first branch on your familytree. You will now work backwards starting with your parents.Your maiden SURNAME is the family you will start researchingfirst or, if you are a man, then your surname will be first.

Let us give as an example: Your maiden name isBetty Ann JONES. You married Alexander Moore SMITH.So your name is Betty Ann JONES-SMITH. Buy some genealogyjournals and title one JONES and color code it. You will beusing these journals with your family's surnames in them foreach family along with other journals for your other family'ssurname. Buy at least 10 genealogy journals to begin with, as youwill be adding SURNAMES, as you get deeper into your genealogyresearch.

Learning Your PATERNAL (Male) Ancestral LineJONES

1. Enter all the information into your journaltitled JONES starting with you and your husband. At thistime you can also title a journal SMITH for your husband'sline. Your husband's bloodline journal will contain all the familygenealogy of the SMITHS' and your JONES bloodlinejournal will contain all the family genealogy of the JONES.Even though you are married there are two separate bloodlines, andthey will come from the male line of each family.

2. You are going to start with your JONESjournal; you will need the following:

Your full name, date of birth, where you wereborn, date of marriage, and any notes of interest you would like toenter about you, your husband and children.

You will need your husband's full name, date ofbirth, where he was born, and any interesting notes about him.Note: this is the first information you will be filling into yourFamily Tree Software later on. I will be giving you instructions onhow to enter this information.

Using your journal titled JONES, startwith you and your husband and enter the same information above foreach.

You will be adding this same type of informationfor each family member that you have, including siblings, Aunts,Uncles, Grandmother, Grandfathers, Great-grandparents and soon.

3. Add your parents and working backwards afteryour parents will come your grandparents. Enter as much informationas you can about each grandparent in your JONES book.

4. Now your father will have the surname ofJONES, so let's give him the name of Leroy Lee JONES,but your mother will have a maiden surname different than yourfather's last name. So let's give your mother's maiden name asWATKINS, Janice Carol WATKINS-JONES. You will nowneed another journal and title it WATKINS. I like to colorcode my journals so that I know by glancing at them, by theircolor, I immediately know which surname I am looking for. I don'thave to guess whose surname it is for that certain journal. Useyour favorite colors and color code each journal. Make the journalsbeautiful and exciting so that they give you pleasure each time youlook at them. You can use beautiful pictures, stickers and etc. togive them a beautiful effect. A good idea would be to put a pictureof the family that the journal is about on the front of thejournal. This gives a unique look and also identifies that journal.As you compile your journals, remember these family ancestryjournals will be passed down for many generations, so make thembeautiful and as complete as you can.