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Category - Ancestry Research
Ancestry research usually begins with you starting your family tree. Once you’ve added your name to the tree, then begin by adding your immediate family. Remember, your immediate family often holds the key to starting a successful family history project.
Record the memories of your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sibling, and cousins as you start building your family tree. As you continue adding new family members you will quickly discover how easy it to complete ancestry research.
At some point you are going to hit a road block or also referred to as a genealogy brick wall. Not to worry, continue searching in a different family branch. The goal is to complete as much of your ancestry research by yourself as possible.
Find free tools and resources on the web to help you with your search. When you’ve exhausted all resources and you can no longer find any more records for your ancestry tree you will need to find help. We, at Record Click, want to be your resource, your aid, your means to passing your brick wall and solving the next piece of your puzzle.
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Pre-1850 Research – The Hidden People Censuses
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Using the School Census for Genealogy Research –...
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Polish Genealogy – Starting Your Ancestor Search
So you think you have Polish ancestors, and you are ready to embark on the genealogical research...
Of Nightingales and Genealogy
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Researching Close Families: Oh, What a Tangled Web
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Verdict Is In – Don’t Dismiss Court Records! I Swear...
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Vetting Your Vets – Using Military Databases for Genealogy...
When my great-great uncle Stephen applied for his Civil War pension, I don’t imagine that he ever...
German Ancestry – Tracing your German Ancestry in Germany
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I See Dead People and I Can Read the Inscriptions on Their...
When the topic of cemeteries and graveyards comes up, a lot of people give a little shudder. . ...
Aunt Lizzie and the Insane Asylum
We all have those family stories that are either uttered in hush hush tones, or not mentioned at...
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Citing Genealogical Research Sources is the Family...
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Time Moves in One Direction, Memory in Another – Timelines...
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is...
A Moveable Feast of Genealogy Research Among the Moveable Stacks...
When professional genealogist and Fort Wayne resident Debra Hutsell set out to find a living heir...
Genealogists Can Go Home Again – If Only to Tap Local...
When Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can't Go Home Again, he was definitely not referring to the logical...
When You Trace Family Trees – “Will” You Find...
Board credentialed Joan Shurtliff shares her uncanny ability to uncover research resources for your...