I've been told some of you do genealogical research?

ShannonSky · February 2011

I'm just looking for others with this hobby

forensicmama · February 2011

My hubby has been researching his line for a while. It's interesting seeing all of the different names.

imnyke · February 2011

My husband does too. He found out some interesting things about his family.

EXL311 · February 2011

Where do you find your information? My grandma passed away almost two years ago and my mom passed just last Friday so a fire has now been lit for me to do more of this but I don't know how exactly. Sorry if I'm hijacking your thread!

janice74 · February 2011

I've been doing it off and on for 10 years, but mostly online. Checking censuses, death records, etc. I'll also send away to the state vital records or libraries for info. I love a good puzzle!

KeriMichaelMarie · February 2011

I am VERY into genealogy

ShannonSky · February 2011

EXL311:
Where do you find your information? My grandma passed away almost two years ago and my mom passed just last Friday so a fire has now been lit for me to do more of this but I don't know how exactly. Sorry if I'm hijacking your thread!

I'm so sorry for your losses I can understand why you'd want to get all the family history stuff down.

I actually started with DD's baby book...I was writing down her great-grandparents and I had to look it up in mine and DH's baby books, and that led to writing down every name I could find, which led me to Googling for more info. Google leads you down a rabbit hole when it comes to genealogy There are tons of great sites out there, I'm copying this from another poster on a different thread:

ancestry.com
familysearch.org
genealogy.com
rootsweb.ancestry.com
ellisisland.org
usgwarchives.net

starlight8323 · February 2011

I love geneology! It's a lot easier these days, with the invention of the internet. I read a book about how to research your ancestry, written in the 1980's, and it was very different/a lot more time-consuming back then.

I have a great-great-aunt who had researched our bloodline back to English royalty of the 14th-15th centuries. As a kid, I always appreciated having this geneological information at my fingertips. I recently decided to get into the hobby myself, to see what else I could discover about other branches of my tree.

I just started getting into it in October, but I've already gotten back to 1569 on one branch, and I have many that go back to the 1700's. I've also started documenting some stories and stuff from my parents and grandparents who are still alive, for the use of future generations.

It is important to me to do this for my kids, and I hope they will appreciate having this information to pass on to their kids someday too.

ShannonSky · February 2011

So those of you that do this - any organizational tips? I feel like my research is hindered by my lack of organization a lot.

starlight8323 · February 2011

I have the same problem. In general, I am very organized person, but there is just so much information. And like I said, I'm just starting out.

I do keep a master tree on ancestry.com, and I try to make each person's info page as detailed as possible. Usually I reference that, rather than digging through the actual papers. They are in no particular order, stuffed in one of my plastic scrapbooking boxes. I do hope to figure out a better system soon.

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