Lost Relatives And Ancestors: A Beginner

ext">Lost Relatives and Ancestors: Aaccessed the database and first found my
Beginner’s Guidewife’s records. We saw on her pedigree
“Collecting Dead Relatives and Sometimes achart that some relatives had already compiled
Live Cousin” and “My Family Tree is Lost ininformation on her mother’s line, but her
the Forest” are just some of the catchyfather’s line was empty. After downloading
slogans found printed on the shirts of genealogymy wife’s pedigree chart onto a GEDCOM
enthusiasts. These avid researchers are looking tofile, we did some research on her father’s
fill the holes in their family trees. It’s workline. The family history consultant told us that
that most have been at for decades.it’s possible that there has been work
My wife and I wanted to get started finding ourdone on her father’s line, but it just
lost relatives, but we didn’t know where tohasn’t been connected to my
begin. She had a binder full of information that onewife’s file.
of her relatives had put together, but other thanBy typing in her paternal grandfather’s
that, we were the ones who were lost.name into the search, we were able to find much
We started by going to the Genealogy library atmore information. The consultant told us that we
Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Leeneeded to download his pedigree chart, take it
Library, but you can also do this online.home to our computer and merge his file with
The first step to finding your lost relatives is tomy wife’s file. That would associate all his
download all the information that has already beeninformation with my wife’s.
compiled. We did this by using the Ancestral FileThe best computer program for compiling Family
database that is indexed at the world’sHistory information is Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
largest genealogy library, The Family Historywhich is currently in the 5.2 release.
Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. We remotely