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Anyone out there research their family history?

Posted: Jan 20, 2010

I have been researching my family for a little over a year now and am totally obsessed. Anyone out there feel the same way? I love talking with my grandparents about their lives and relatives and then researching those people to find out more.;

I am an avid family historian/genealogist - anon

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I love working on family history and sometime find myself up til 3 or 4 am on weekends searching. You are so so lucky to have your grandparents to tell you about stories of their lives and relatives. My grandmother passed away before I ever became interested and my mom said if she had known how fascinating this was she would have asked her more. My grandmother's uncle was the Mayor of Preston Lancashire in early 1900s and I found pictures of him in parades and uniform, etc. I am lucky that I found a distant cousin of mine who lives in Canada (her great great grandfather was the brother of my great, great, great grandmother) and she sent me a letter her grandmother wrote to her that described what life was like for her growing up in England.

Genealogy is most definitely addicting and I too am obsessed.

How do you get started? I've always wanted to trace sm - ChiaPet

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my family back but g-parents are long gone and I don't know where to really look.

Here's how I started - anon

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Gather as much information as you can about relatives. Names, dates of birth/death, where born, etc. There are many genealogy sites you can get some information:

Ancestry.com
cyndislist.com
cousinconnect.com
genforum.genealogy.com
familysearch.org
ancestorhunt.com
genealogysearch.org
searchforancestors.com

And if you just put in genealogy search, or genealogy with your last name tons of stuff will come up.

As a matter of fact on the cousinconnect a few months back I put a message out that I was looking for an old grammar school and girl scout friend. I had been searching for her for 30 years (after grammar school she moved away and I didn't know where she had gone). I have her maiden name and where she last lived, and within 24 hours I had three people contact me with her information and I found her.

I also ended up finding a cousin of mine (actually she would be a cousin to my mom), and she was able to give me so much more information about my relatives.

What I find very fascinating about my family history is where the people lived. I have relatives that came from England, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, and all other countries. I found my granmothers uncle who was a mayor, I obtained a death certificate of my great grandfather and finally found out how he died (my great grandmother never told anyone anything about him). I found the house he died in and looked it up on google. It's just fascinating fascinating information.

So, I would say if your parents are alive, or cousins, etc, and can give you any information, it's a start. Sometimes I even would type in their names with any other information I could find in google (like for instance I would put Tom Dooley 1940 Paris France) in google and then see what that popped up. One thing for sure is once you get started you'll most likely find yourself up at 4 am.

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