Your Ancestral Trail--Genealogy for the Beginner

Update 14 Jan 2000.
Not complete.

BEGINNING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY.
There are certain things to remember and do when you begin following your ancestral trail. After several years of wandering in circles, I began to understand what I should have been doing from the beginning. It is easy to tell someone to go to the Library and get a book on Genealogy. A big, thick book which might overwhelm you and make you think twice about this family history idea.
Why not a simple few chapters to point you in the right direction?
Thats what my book is all about. Easy reading and easy notekeeping AND "to tell the truth". You may find clues and your surname in a computer data base but you will still have to prove and document your family line from yourself back through each generation by way of primary and secondary records. See Chapter four on Records.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Genealogy. Where to start?? With yourself, of course! Work from the "known" to the "unknown". Got proof of yourself? Birth Certificate? Marriage Certificate? What other records do you have stached away in a shoebox that relate to you? Baptism? Baby picture? School diploma(s). Military Records? You got siblings? What about proof of their "being" ? Just because the family always celebrated brother's birthday on June 1 is not proof. Get a copy of his birth certificate, a PRIMARY record.

Chapter 2. Getting Organized.
Chapter 3. Elements of Genealogy.
Chapter 4. Records. Primary and Secondary.
Chapter 5. Where to do research.

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