| Finding your long-lost relatives is now much easer, | | | | to build your family tree. There is no need to |
| thanks to technologies that enables you to build | | | | place expensive phone calls or travel to all parts |
| your family tree.What is a family tree?A family | | | | of the world just to meet your distant cousins. A |
| tree is a record of your ancestors. It is usually | | | | lot of family tree software can be bought at |
| represented by a genealogy chart that shows | | | | reasonable prices, and some are free. Family tree |
| family connections. The chart typically contains the | | | | software usually has very user-friendly, |
| names of individuals that belong to the family, | | | | step-by-step tutorials to help you get complete |
| important dates such as their birthdays, states or | | | | the tree. It can help you organize all the data, |
| countries where they live, and sometimes their | | | | pictures and heirlooms you have from your family. |
| occupations. Each individual person is connected to | | | | Best of all, it can search online databases of |
| other persons using lines that represent different | | | | family histories, so that you can access related |
| types of connections such as marriages, | | | | information and decide if it is connected to your |
| etc.Building your family treeThere are easy ways | | | | tree. |