Resources
Want to find your own offbeat ancestor?
The pages below contain tips and resources to help you get started.
All you need is a little curiosity.
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Pick up your phone
It's easy to start uncovering your own family story. Just pick up the phone and connect with parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles. Even family friends and neighbors. Grab a cup of coffee, pick up your phone, and start collecting memories.
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Collect records
Genealogical records connect you with your ancestors lives, and their place in history. Look for birth, marriage, and death records starting with yourself and working backward. You never know what you’re going to find until you start looking.
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Get social
Genealogy is about connecting with records, with history, and with people. Take your research to the next level by finding groups online or by joining a local genealogical society. It’s not hard. All you need to do is take the first step.