Make Your Own Family Tree Book For Generations To Come

Starting a family tree for most people can be quite the headache, not knowing where to start or how to begin. I know when I started it took me months just to find my first ancestor of the 1800's. I did not know where to start and I had no organization to speak of.

One of the biggest problems I had was funding to move forward. I didn't know where to find databases or resources for finding my family. I got pretty frustrated and even quit for a few months.

I even tried Ancestry.com for help but it cost too much and almost every time I did a search for a family member it came back with people not even close to related to me. Not to mention every time you turn around you have to pay extreme amounts of money to get just a snippet of information for a family member.

Well, I learned through the help of BeginFamilyTree.com excellent tips to get me started with a very well laid plan in a very inexpensive way.

Since I started using the information at BeginFamilyTree.com I have now increased my family tree book to a whopping 1220 members...and growing! I have found a great great grandfather who was a Union soldier in the 54th Illinois Infantry 8th Division. Upon further research I learned of a mission he was sent on traveling from Illinois down to Mississippi on foot and some of the way on horseback...wow!

I discovered that his brother was a doctor/surgeon who attended the University of Michigan in 1854...only thirty seven years after the university was established...incredible! I found that he was one of the first pioneers to establish Story,Co in Iowa. The information found is incredible. Plantation maps, city maps, advertisements for businesses owned back in the late 1800's, court records, diaries, marriage certificates and of course censuses...the information is endless and very attainable.

You need a plan of attack to start your family tree book and you have come to right place to get the information you need to get you going. Find out how to find birth certificates, censuses, death certificates, marriage records. You can even find immigrant information and censuses. What did they do for a living before they reached the states?

I found that one of my ancestors was a florist for Emperor Franz Josef of Austria before he immigrated to the United States. I found the ship that he traveled on to get here and the passenger list he was listed on. Through that passenger list I found he was listed with a son which gave me another lead. The possibilities are endless not to mention fun and exciting.

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