| Genealogy has become a popular pastime. | | | | can tell her how it started.The Internet has |
| Searching for ancestors can be fun and an | | | | opened a whole new world for genealogy buffs. |
| interesting way to learn about history. While | | | | Old archive records have been made available on |
| looking for your ancestors you will learn about the | | | | many different websites. It may take some time |
| time and place in which they lived. How politics, | | | | and a lot of searching for the correct information, |
| wars, and economics affected their lives. It will | | | | but a lot of it is out there. When doing this type |
| give you history on a more personal level.The | | | | of search it is better to start with a living person, |
| easiest way to start your search is to interview | | | | like a grandparent, then move backward through |
| your living relatives. Often there is one elder aunt, | | | | history. You should never start with an event or |
| uncle, or grandparent that knows a lot of | | | | name and try to link it to yourself. This can very |
| information about the family. The first questions | | | | difficult and frustrating, usually leading to |
| to ask are dates of births, deaths, and marriages. | | | | misinformation. When doing your family tree you |
| In any family search this type of information is | | | | should try to keep it as factual as possible even if |
| the most commonly found; these events that | | | | you find information you don't like.Another new |
| have been recorded somewhere outside the | | | | source of information is with your own DNA. It is |
| family and will have public records. Full names are | | | | now possible to test your DNA to find out your |
| also essential. There could be fifty men named | | | | families origins. This information can give you a |
| John Jones born in New York City, in 1906. | | | | global overview of your genetic makeup telling |
| Therefore you have to be very specific on which | | | | you what percentage of your DNA is shared with |
| one you are looking for.Learning about your family | | | | different ethnicities. For more tribal societies like |
| and where they came from can answer questions | | | | Africans and Native Americans, DNA can confirm |
| you may have about family traditions that have | | | | what tribe you are most likely to have come |
| been passed through the family. Maybe your | | | | from. These results are not always 100% |
| whole life you wondered why grandma baked | | | | accurate, they can tell which group you are |
| braided sweet bread only at Christmas. Then you | | | | predominately from, but because of population |
| learn through your search it is an old German | | | | migrations there can be many different ethnic |
| tradition that started several hundreds years ago. | | | | markers in one persons DNA.Gregg Hall is an |
| It is something she grew up with and has always | | | | author living in Navarre Florida. |
| done without really knowing why. And know you | | | | |