| Today there are many Internet sources available | | | | company and the company name. If you are |
| for genealogy research. Some do require a | | | | incredibly fortunate, the president may be or |
| monthly or yearly registration fee. In some cases | | | | know the founder of the company. In some |
| purchasing genealogy software at an office supply | | | | extraordinary cases, he will know who the |
| store may give you the benefit of a limited time | | | | company or firm was named after. It could be |
| subscription to one or more of the internet | | | | someone of relative importance. Although it could |
| resource sites. Since these temporarily free | | | | be simply the surname of the person who owns |
| subscriptions often autmatically renew to your | | | | the business. |
| credit card vigilance is needed. Use the | | | | If you are a hard core genealogy research |
| membership while it is free to determine if it | | | | fanatic, you can go as far or farther than you |
| worth a subscription fee later on. If it is not cancel | | | | ever thought you could. Networking is a key |
| within the free membership time frame. | | | | element. If someone is not related to you but has |
| There are some well known resources such as | | | | the same name it may be important to ask if |
| Ancestry.com, Familytree.com, and LDS | | | | they have found other people with the same |
| Genealogy. There are also city, state, immigration, | | | | name that are not related. Then, you follow up |
| surname, religious, and educational searches. You | | | | with those people. You are sure to learn more, |
| can choose to do your own searches or enlist the | | | | eliminate areas, and make new friends along the |
| assistance of topical software. In any event you | | | | way. |
| will be hard pressed to run out of researches. | | | | Be careful with regards to your genealogy |
| Knowing where to search is one of the key | | | | research. People may be polite in answering your |
| elements to your task and it can be fun and | | | | questions at first. However they may not share |
| informative. However it can become | | | | your enthusiam for the family heritage research. |
| overwhelming or frustrating, and then it may be | | | | Do not impose daily, weekly or monthly updates |
| time to make a change or take a break from | | | | on family who have not asked for them. Enjoy |
| your genealogy research project. | | | | your hobby but in this case keep your enthusiam |
| Research can be fun but finding information for | | | | to yourself. |
| genealogy research can also be challenging. For | | | | Remember if you send daily or weekly emails to |
| instance, if you have a surname that is slightly | | | | people who have not asked for it is considered |
| unusual and have researched all possible spelling | | | | rude by many and actually violates laws about |
| and pronunciations, you might find an obscure | | | | sending unsolicited emails. Your family members |
| company name or corporation that has the similar | | | | may not sue you, but you may be offending |
| or same name. Consider writing a letter to the | | | | them before you get a chance to know them |
| President, aptly noted Personal and Confidential on | | | | and learn more about your family tree. Learning |
| the outside. Be sure to explain that you are in the | | | | about a relative you do not know is fun. After |
| midst of your genealogy research project and | | | | you do so for the 50th or 75th time, it becomes |
| would like to ask if he knows the history of the | | | | mundane. |