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Searching for my roots

27 January 2009

A few years back, my parents and my aunt gave me some information on family history that distant cousins had uncovered. I was intrigued. So I hopped online and started searching around.

I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I loved what I found on Ancestry.com and even traced my paternal grandfather’s lines back to the Mayflower. I started in on looking up ancestors on censuses (as far back as the 1790 census!) and really enjoyed this new-found hobby.

But life sort of got in the way and I stopped making my family-history research a priority. I’m just now getting back into it. I’ve rejoined Ancestry.com, subscribed to the fabulous Family Tree magazine and to some genealogy-related podcasts. And I’m just starting to find genealogy-related blogs. Back when I was doing this before, blogs were practically non-existent!

And, of course, one of the things I loved about doing genealogical research was organizing it. I set up a filing system based on the recommendations I found at FamilySearch.org the website run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. My files are beautiful. Well-organized, neat and color-coded.

As I jump back into this hobby, I’m looking forward to learning about new ways to research that I’m certain have evolved. I’ve got that excited feeling in my stomach as I contemplate it. I’m sure I’ll be writing more here about my discoveries.

If you do family-history research, do you have any favorite blogs or other resources you’d like to recommend?

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