Genealogy

“I was looking for a very distant relative. 134 other people, it shows, have been doing similar research. Not a single one had the name of this person’s father. I could have given up and was like, okay, guess that is the end of the line, but I’m persistent. I knew somewhere out there had to be some document that at least hinted to who this guys parent were. Sure enough in the source files about this family member it had a record of his Baptism and in that named his father and the date and location where the Baptism took place. It was so simple. This whole time it was there.”

“When I first decided I wanted to learn about my family tree, namely on my paternal side, my most wonderful grandfather sat me down to teach me some of the things he learned from the 20 years he spent doing his own. He did his research by hand during the 1970s and 1980s – a long time before they had things like the internet and automated records.”