Adoption records, Baptism or christening records, Biographies, Birth records

Cemetery records and tombstones, Census records, City directories and telephone directories, Daughters of the American Revolution records

Death records, Diaries, personal letters and family Bibles, Emigration, immigration/naturalization records, Land/homestead records, deeds, Library Records

Marriage/divorce records, Medical records, Military and conscription records, Newspaper columns, Obituaries

Occupational records, Oral history, Passports, Photographs, Public Records (County Court House), School and alumni association records

Ship passenger lists, Social Security Administration, Tax records, Voter registration records, Wills and probate records, Yearbooks (High School,College)

Some ideas and suggestions about starting your Ancestry Research:

1. Talk to your parents! Find out where they grew up.

2. Get birth & death dates of both their mother and father.

3. Find out marriage dates and location of marriage.

4. Find out where their parents, or grandparents are buried.
If you are able to do so,go to the places they tell you about.Take notes and pictures of the graves,etc.

5. Who are the your oldest living relatives,
make plans to visit them and record your conversations with them,take pictures,etc.
Ask questions about what they know about the family
...where relatives are buried
...if they know any dates for birth, death, and marriage
...if they know any stories about the family friends who also may have info.
...if they know any other living relatives and visit those relatives or call them.

6. Ask your Aunts, Uncles or other relatives if they have previously done any genealogy research.

7. Search the internet for surnames you have found.
Possibly you'll find others doing research on the same family lines.

8. Your local library should be able to point you in the right direction
to research areas that you have found from your interviews.

9. U.S. Government Federal records center have all census records from 1790-1920.
These can be searched for grandparents and great grandparents.

10. Find out if any of your relatives were in wars,
a lot of information is available at the National Archives.

11.Go to War or military related genealogy websites.

12.Find a subscription to the Everton's Genealogical Helper magazine.
Your local library will have copies of this book then you can look up surnames of your family.

13. Send for copies of birth, death, and marriage records.

14. Gather pictures or copies of older relatives while making your visits.

15. Visit your local LDS church, most have a library that you can send to Salt Lake City
and have microfilm sent back to the church for you to view. These records are extensive.

16. Take a course in searching your relatives from your local library
or historical society or on the internet.

17. You can hire a professional genealogist,
get good references from others that are familiar with this persons work.

18. Visit the internet GenWeb Project for your area.Join your local Genealogy or Historical Society.

19. Join a local Genealogy or Historical Society.

20. Visit used books stores and look for genealgy books.

21.Preserve the information you have gathered ,future generations will appreciate it.

23. Search the internet phone directories and email directories. Drop these folks a letter.

24. Let the other members of your family know that you are doing genealogy research
and ask for any old pictures of homes,family reunions etc.

Best Wishes.

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