Hello there. Thank you for visiting me here at Genealogy Beginner. I’m writing to tell you about a great 6-Generation family tree that you can download. Simply click on the link below to read about this blank family tree.
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Did you know that any United States citizen living in the US on or after 1936 is required by law to have obtained a Social Security Card.
A Social Security Card is obtained by filing a Social Security Application. Social Security Applications are a part of the public record.
The Social Security Application requires the applicant to state their mother’s and father’s full name. Very helpful to someone researching their family tree.
Ever thought of throwing a Genealogy Family Reunion?
We talk about how to organize and initiate such a reunion in The Step-by-Step Genealogy Guide. It isn’t that hard when you have a few basic tips:
I receive great feedback every day by email.
I wish more people would use the comments form below to share their experience. Please don’t hesitate to do so yourself.
Regardless, keep the questions coming.
I wanted to write right away and respond to everyone with the answer to a great question I received.
One beginner genealogist wrote, “All this about government resources and talking to your family is great but it’s still not clear what I’m looking for.”
I thought it would be helpful to review the public resources available to you when trying to figure out how to do a family tree. We cover each of these in detail in The Genealogy Guide so I won’t go overboard here.
Sometimes knowing the list of resources available is half the battle.
This is just the basics. What do you think? Am I missing a fundamental public resource? Use the comments area below to add your favorite basic public source for genealogy record hunting.
Some people have asked me about “gravestone photos”. We got a couple emails on that so I thought it would be helpful to write a
little about the role of graveyards in your genealogy research.
They are critical!
Some folks are asking about family tree research and if we could offer some ideas/ assistance with how to actually find your ancestors.
We’ll spread the ideas out over several posts so you can digest things in small chunks (at least my mind works that way).
That said, I’m going to assume …
When making family trees it’s easy to get lost in the details. All those lines and dates, who’s generation one and where do your children go? My hope is that this blog post will get a discussion going around how to address these issues.
The Six Generation Family Tree Template you downloaded has three key areas that you need to understand in order to complete your
family tree:
We did a survey a little while back where I asked the original visitors to this website what their biggest challenge was when making a family tree.
The idea was to make sure the website was a resource that would help people overcome these initial barriers.
This is what people said was their hassle:
Family history is a matter of pride to many people. Many cultures, over thousands of years have kept the tradition of maintaining and preserving family trees, often in great details.
Even today people believe that their origin and history determines to a large extent who they are. This can be achieved through a family tree.
By restricting your knowledge to your immediate family, you are depriving your children of knowledge of family history that is rightfully theirs. Many people don’t seek to find out about their ancestors in spite of wanting to. They may think this task is fraught with difficulty.
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You might be well acquainted with your family and relatives, and if you’re an amateur in the field of genealogy, you might be interested. All you need is a Genealogy tree which is a lineage chart and an empty family tree to write down the information of your immediate relatives.
Record the information of every person along with their full name, place and date of birth and death, names of their parents, wives or husbands and children and any other miscellaneous detail.
You might need more help having crossed your grandparents’ generation, and might need to use other resources and records for gathering further information.
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Genealogy Beginner is a resource for aspiring genealogists who want to create and research a family tree.
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