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Genealogy and Public Records - Searching for Your Family Tree 

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Your family tree may well be one of the most prized possessions to come into your family, but for many families, it simply hasn't been started yet. Some families have placed a great emphasis on the importance of their family history and genealogy, and others struggle to find answers as to where they came from, and how they got there. In today's world, most people leave a paper trail miles long as they fill out forms, purchase property, get married, divorced, gain credit, destroy credit, apply for loans, and sign documents. These records can be extremely useful when researching the genealogy of your family. But record keeping wasn't the strong point of our ancestors, but birth, death, and marriage records have proven to be extremely useful, and are readily available online, as well as directly from the public records of many courthouses.

Putting together a family tree can be a difficult task. It helps when you can give your project some organization right from the beginning. Set goals of how long each day or each week you would like to spend on your project, because there will be times you are truly addicted to your project, and just don't want to quit for the night, and on the other hand, there will times you are completely frustrated, and won't want to touch it again for a year! This is one of the major reasons why people just starting to build their family tree end up quitting halfway through, never to pick up where they left off. Keep your project moving, and if you loose motivation in one area, try to move on to another area of the genealogical line. If one relative seems to continue to provide dead ends, try a different relative. That's the true beauty of building a family tree. With extended family relationships, you have the option of using several different people searches to get information about the same relative.

Starting with yourself, your family will begin with two sides - your mother's side of the family, and your father's side of the family. If you're working in your complete family tree, you will want to keep records on both sides of your family, and keep them separated. As you delve deeper into your family line, you will find many names of people you have never heard of, and you don't want to mix the family records, complicating the process. By keeping the two sides of the family separated, you will be better able to keep track of the names, the relations, and it will make the long term goal of the project easier to see.....

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