| Do you desire to know shorter routes of creating | | | | and date family members in any old photos with |
| your family tree project? Are you trying to find | | | | the help of your older relatives. This is after you |
| that one website where you get virtually all the | | | | must have gathered such photographs from your |
| information, records and documents you need to | | | | extended families which include your cousin, |
| help you find your ancestors? The unfortunate | | | | uncles, aunts, etc. You should then start adding |
| reality is that there is absolutely no shortcut. | | | | every little detail you gathered by each relative |
| Before even thinking adding any particular individual | | | | such as the marriage dates, the neighbors they |
| to your family tree, there is need for you to | | | | shared their lives with who may also had migrated |
| ensure that each details and relationship with any | | | | from another country with them, family house |
| person is well proven and backed with quality | | | | details, the cars bought and when they were |
| documents or reliable sources. If you are a | | | | bought and so on. Going about it this way will |
| beginner genealogy researcher, below are six | | | | make your desire to find every possible clue of |
| guidelines that would be of great help to you. | | | | your ancestors much easier. You must remember |
| | | | to keep a note pad and tag each photo carefully |
| 1. You have to start by scratching your head a | | | | because they would all become handy as your |
| bit. Try to remember everything you know or | | | | search goes deeper. |
| think that you know about your relatives and | | | | 3. You can also start by using the family tree |
| their entire life events and put all the information | | | | software by inputting detail of everybody you |
| down. The information about each of your relation | | | | know in your family starting from you. The details |
| has to be comprehensive and would contains | | | | have to be added one after the other and their |
| things like, names, dates of births, marriages, | | | | source should be included too. Some of the family |
| even nicknames, titles, occupations, land | | | | tree information sources may include, birth |
| ownership, military experience if any and lots | | | | certificate, newspaper announcement, etc. Always |
| more. You can start asking questions about your | | | | ensure you write down the maiden names of the |
| ancestor by bringing some older pictures of your | | | | your family members' wives or simply tag it |
| relative and ask some older relatives of yours. | | | | 'unknown' till you find out the details. Some of |
| You may be surprised that one of your older | | | | these software are free to download and use |
| relative has details how your great grand parents | | | | while others come with little price. |
| migrated from one country to where you | | | | 4. It is always best to work with one family tree |
| presently live. Some of these older relatives may | | | | line at a time. For instance, you can pursue |
| even have old diaries or memoirs where they | | | | information regarding your mother's ancestors |
| wrote down certain family details some years | | | | only and do same for your father's much later. |
| back. | | | | Rather flipping all over the tree, it is easier to |
| 2. You have to try as much as you can to name | | | | keep looking for the relatives in one line. |