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  1. Getting Started in Genealogy Online by William Dollarhide, 2009-12-08
  2. Getting started in genealogy by Ruby Lacy, 1987
  3. Getting Started in Genealogy: or, How To Leave a Legacy and Have Fun Doing So by Jr., Charles Rice Bourland, 2009-07-30
  4. Getting started in genealogy by Joan Gallagher, 1984
  5. Genealogy research: Getting started by Beverly DeLong Whitaker, 1995
  6. Discover your family tree: Getting started doing genealogy : talk given at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Center City, Philadelphia, August 10, 1993 by Lee Arnold, 1997
  7. Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy by Gary Mokotoff; Warren Blatt, 1999-12-01
  8. Getting Started on Your Genealogy Website by Thornton and Marty Gale, 2008-03-01
  9. Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: 2010 Version by Gary Mokotoff, 2010-06-30
  10. Getting started in computer genealogy by Helen Hunt Read, 1989
  11. Getting started in Jewish genealogy: A handbook for beginners by Ronald D Doctor, 2000
  12. Getting Started in Family History by David Annal, 2001-02
  13. Getting started: How to begin researching your family history by Anne Ross Balhuizen, 1994
  14. The Internet for the Older and Wiser: Get Up and Running Safely on the Web (The Third Age Trust (U3A)/Older & Wiser) by Adrian Arnold, 2009-12-15

41. The Genealogy Forum: Internet Center: Getting Started
A seventeen lesson course in doing genealogy covering getting started, using technology,and various resources and records used for genealogical research.
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Various genealogy forms available at no charge including pedigree charts, family group records, and research abstract forms.
Beginner's Guide to Family History Research
A thirteen chapter guide covering the basics of genealogy including how to do research from home, libaries, courthouses, etc.; how to organize the research, write correspondances, use the computer, etc.
Family Tree Maker - Genealogy How to Guide
Part of the Family Tree Maker's collection of genealogy helps. This site provides step by step information for locating information, organizing the information, and how to locate missing information.
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National Genealogy Society Introduction to Genealogy, an Online Course
A six lesson course teaching how to start ones research and how to locate birth, marriage, and death information.
Rootsweb Guide to Tracing Family Trees
A seventeen lesson course in doing genealogy covering getting started, using technology, and various resources and records used for genealogical research.
Treasure Maps - How-to get started on your Family History
A five step procedure in getting started with genealogy.

42. The Genealogy Forum: Beginners' Center: Information On Getting Started
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    Okay, so you think you may be French-Canadian or Acadian, and you want to know how to begin. The first thing you have to do is find the oldest member of your family and find out everything he or she knows. You MUST get back a few generations on your own before you will be able to find printed or online sources that will be able to help you. If nobody in your family can tell you where your grandparents came from, then you will need to try looking for marriage certificates, birth certificates, death certificates, etc., which may have additional information. This can be a tedious process, but there are really no shortcuts unless you are very lucky. The one source that may help you is the nearest Family History Center (FHC) of the Mormon Church (otherwise known as the Church of Jesus Christ - Latter Day Saints). They will know the best way to find information in your local area, and will have references that will give addresses for applying for birth and death certificates. Their IGI (International Genealogical Index) is a computerized list of genealogical items about people all over the world. Some of the information has been copied from the original church records and is pretty reliable. Some has been submitted by amateur genealogists. This information is very uneven, some is quite incorrect, and so it must be taken with a grain of salt.

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    46. Getting Started
    Family genealogy. Basic genealogy getting started. I. Put it in Writing! Usinga Family History Questionnaire, write down the facts you know about your family.
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    Family Genealogy Basic Genealogy - Getting Started I. Put it in Writing! Using a Family History Questionnaire , write down the facts you know about your family. The questionnaire is useful in assessing just how much you know already, and what information you need to literally "fill in the blanks". The questionnaire only deals with three generations. If you can name three generations of ancestors, that’s great. Your objective, however, is to factually document the three major life events (birth, marriage and death) for each of your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. Hopefully your research will eventually lead you to identify all of their siblings. The tricky part, again, is to factually document the three major life events (birth, marriage and death) for the siblings of each of your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. But, before you get discouraged, complete the questionnaire. If you have resource people (family elders, friends, neighbors) who can help answer some questions, set up interviews and collect the oral history . Record your data on a Family Group Sheet II. Decide Upon the Goal of Your Research.

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    49. Help Getting Started With Genealogy
    Help getting started with genealogy. This page describes some of the tools I haveused to trace my family tree, and some hints for getting started on your own.
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    This page describes some of the tools I have used to trace my family tree, and some hints for getting started on your own. I am using Broaderbund Family Tree Maker Deluxe to record information in my family tree. This was recommended to me as the best software for the purpose, and I find it easy to use. I have not tried competing products. You can probably get by with the basic version, but the deluxe version includes additional records on CD and added online access to certain databases (which presumably could be added later with the basic edition, but probably at greater cost). I use to generate the web pages with my family tree. This is a shareware program free to use for the first 14 days. If you like it, you are expected to register your copy for $20 after that period. You would use GED2HTML to publish your tree on a web site. For information on creating your own website click here You can also subscribe to various genealogy services to help find information about your family, or to search the trees of others. One month access to Genealogy.com was included with Family Tree Maker deluxe, but I have not yet activated it - since I want to fill in as much information as possible before starting the trial subscription. The more you know to start with, the more relevant the results of your searches will be. I had some of my best luck finding information through a Google search on the names of some of my ancestors. I was able to find a tree online from someone else that included my ancestors. I was able to obtain the database from this person and merge it with my own, and that tree when back very far. Some might say that this defeats to fun of finding your own roots, but I think otherwise. There is no way that any single person could trace as much of the tree as I found. It is possible that there are errors in information that you find online, so you will want to verify as much of the information as you can. Family tree maker will track sources of information, making this task easier.

    50. USGW - Getting Started
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    1. Start with yourself! Write down your own name, birth date, place of birth, parents, husband or wife if married, date of marriage, place of marriage, children's complete names and their dates of birth. The easiest way to do this in a format that will be easily understood is to use a Family Group Sheet . This is merely a form with places for all of the important information. You can download a nice Family Group Sheet from Ancestry.com - http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/familysheet.htm You will need an Adobe Acrobat reader to print out this form, but the page supplies a link to the download site for the reader if you don't already have it. The American Genealogy Mall also has a nice Family Group Sheet and you can print this one directly from their website - http://www.genealogy-mall.com/fgr.htm You will do a Family Group Sheet for each family in your line. After you do your own family, do your parents, grandparents and so on. (If you have been married more than once, you will do a sheet for each marriage. You will end up with quite a few sheets before you are done since EACH family group needs a sheet of its own. Your mother and father's family group will have a sheet, your father's family group (your paternal grandparents) will have a sheet, you mother's family group (maternal grandaparents) will have a sheet and on and on. It is probably a good idea to go ahead and fill in

    51. Getting Started
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    With 19 million people actively tracing their heritage and 113 million expressing an interest in starting, genealogy is one of America's favorite pastimes. Discovering one's place in history can be incredibly rewarding, but locating and inspecting the records of one's ancestors requires patience, thoroughness, and long-term commitment. Genealogical research is unique, and learning the correct methods is essential to success. Reduce frustrations and increase enjoyment by taking time now to learn the basics of genealogical research. Books To Get You Started
    Beginner's guides to genealogy are readily available and highly recommended
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    52. Getting Started With Your Genealogy
    Related Links on getting started in genealogy. The Treasure Map Home Pageis an excellent place to getting started with your family genealogy.
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    My Suggestions 1. Interview close living relatives
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    3. Track down obituaries and other newspaper clippings on most recent relative's deaths.
    4. Find your way into the first census available: 1920 census and go backwards from there. I cannot emphasize how important it is to start with living people. If you're grandparents have passed on, look for their brothers, or sisters, or their spouses, or their cousins, and so on. I have gotten valuable information from a 70 year old second cousin of my dad, an 80 year old surviving spouse of a second cousin of my grandfather, and so on. That is the easy part. Now, the hard part. Filling in the blanks and starting to get past the twentieth century into the nineteenth century and earlier will be harder. Note you are usually trying to get who, what, when, where on each piece of evidence i.e. who died when and where. Who married when and where. Who was born when and where. Then, to start putting those pieces together, like a zigzaw puzzle. 1. Sit down with all close living relatives with a pencil and paper (and consider a tape recorder) and start talking and writing. Maybe use a spiral notebook or a three ring, whatever, but not loose scraps of paper). Find out as much as you can about not so close relatives (your folks' cousins, great aunts and uncles, etc.)

    53. Genealogy Wizard - Getting Started!
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    54. BBC - History - Your History - Genealogy
    getting started. you will probably find yourself contacting others, getting and giving Rememberthe cardinal rule of genealogy work backwards, beginning with
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    History Your History ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Researching your family history By Susannah Davis More on how to do history Take a History Trail 1 of 9 Getting started A family chart Libraries Graveyards and cemeteries ... Printable version Discover the logical way to tackle archives and libraries, get help from the many organisations devoted to family history and find your way round the increasing number of resources available on the Internet. A birth certificate Getting started Have you ever thought of tracing your family history, but were put off by words like PRO, Census, Tithes, Manorial records and IGI? Have you ever made a start and felt you were drowning in lists of useful addresses, or lost in a record office, or depressed by the world supply of microfilm? You're not alone! But fear not: this guide aims to briefly explain a logical way to research your family history. Once you get going, you'll be one of thousands of people in pursuit of their ancestors and you will probably find yourself contacting others, getting and giving help. It need not be a solitary occupation. Work backwards Remember the cardinal rule of genealogy: work backwards, beginning with what you know. Resist all temptations to go directly to that son of Charles I that your grandfather told you aboutÂ… there might be a grain of truth in the story, but you'll get nowhere for sure unless you move steadily back in time from one generation to the next. Never presume that you must be related to somebody just because you have the same surname, however unusual. Your initial approach should include immediate relatives who may have all sorts of useful information such as correspondence, photographs and addresses of others whom you may wish to contact.

    55. Genealogy Primer - Getting Started
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    You should always start your Genealogical Researching with Yourself, gathering all your Vital Records (birth, marriage, civil and church records). Then write down everything you know about your family and put it on Pedigree and Family Group charts. You can find these at your local Genealogical Society, Latter-Day Saints Family History Center, and local library. The Latter-Day Saints have a web site with Basic Information on Beginning a Family History Search. You can find it at: http://www.lds.org FHC (Family History Center) is a branch of the Latter-Day Saints(LDS) Church in Salt Lake City Utah. There are over 2,000 local branches in about 50 countries around the world with libraries containing filmed records. The FHC is open free to the public. You do not have to be a member of the church to use the library. No one will try to convert you or preach to you. To locate a FHC near you, check your phonebook yellow pages under "Churches, Latter-day Saints" for a listing, or call 800-346-6044 or check http://www.everton.com/fhcusa.html

    56. Getting Started In Genealogy
    Project getting started in genealogy Compiled by Dan Hyde. com/. gettingstarted in genealogy and Family History http//www.genuki.org.uk/gs/.
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    I have found that the best way to start a family history is to ask ALL of your older relatives to relate anything they can remember about the family. You will find that some of the stories have been "colored in" over the years to make them more exciting, but most have a small kernel of truth in there somewhere. I have found that several visits may be required to draw out the information. Try to get a copy of your grandparents' birth certificates and marriage licenses. You need to work from "now" to "then," taking small steps. Perhaps your interviews with older relatives will give the death dates and places of your grandparents. Then you can write to (preferably visit) the county where they died and also where they were buried (if different) to find their obituaries. When researching obituaries, read each line separately and record any information you find. Many times, the brothers and sisters of the deceased person will be listed with their place of residence and you can trace them IF you are unable to trace your grandparents. You should be able to determine facts about your grandparents and possibly great-grand parents. I think you should record the full names, date of birth and place, marriages and place and deaths and place of all your DIRECT ancestors, for example, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. Also, record brothers and sisters of all these people if you can find them. Record any second marriages and the children of direct ancestors. I use family group sheets to record this info. If you need a copy of the charts, you can print them off the web (see below).

    57. Getting Started In Genealogy
    Jackson Brigade, Inc. getting started in genealogy Compiled by Dan Hyde. Seethe following web sites for information on getting started in genealogy.
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    I have found that the best way to start a family history is to ask ALL of your older relatives to relate anything they can remember about the family. You will find that some of the stories have been "colored in" over the years to make them more exciting, but most have a small kernel of truth in there somewhere. I have found that several visits may be required to draw out the information. Try to get a copy of your grandparents' birth certificates and marriage licenses. You need to work from "now" to "then," taking small steps. Perhaps your interviews with older relatives will give the death dates and places of your grandparents. Then you can write to (preferably visit) the county where they died and also where they were buried (if different) to find their obituaries. When researching obituaries, read each line separately and record any information you find. Many times, the brothers and sisters of the deceased person will be listed with their place of residence and you can trace them IF you are unable to trace your grandparents. You should be able to determine facts about your grandparents and possibly great-grand parents. I think you should record the full names, date of birth and place, marriages and place and deaths and place of all your DIRECT ancestors, for example, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. Also, record brothers and sisters of all these people if you can find them. Record any second marriages and the children of direct ancestors. I use family group sheets to record this info. If you need a copy of the charts, you can print them off the web (see below).

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    60. Czech Genealogy Guide
    Comprehensive article about searching jewish ancestors in the Czech Republic.Category Regional Europe Society and Culture genealogy...... 10/11/2001 getting started With CzechJewish genealogy by E. RandolSchoenberg and Julius Mueller. I. Introduction. By finding this
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    I. Introduction By finding this page, you have already made an important step toward learning how to research your Jewish ancestors in the lands of what is now the Czech Republic, but before 1918 were the Habsburg lands of Bohemia and Moravia in Austria-Hungary. Our sponsor, JewishGen's Bohemia-Moravia Special Interest Group, through its web site and mailing list with over 400 amateur and professional Jewish genealogist, is the best source outside the Czech republic for information on your ancestry. I strongly encourage you to subscribe (for free) to the mailing list and post your research queries to the group. Also take the time to explore the rest of the BohMor web site , and especially GemeindeView , The Web Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities In Bohemia and Moravia.
    II. A Very Brief History There are records of Jews living in Bohemia and Moravia for almost 1,000 years. As in most places in Europe, Jews were subject to various discriminatory decrees, pogroms and expulsions, but until World War II the Jewish presence was always substantial. At one time, Jews made up over 20% of the population of Prague, the largest city in the Czech Republic. In 1724, the first census of all Jews in the Czech lands was carried out. Approximately 30,000 Jews inhabited 168 towns and 672 villages in Bohemia and approximately 20,000 lived in Moravia, while 2,335 Jewish families (approximately 10,500 Jews) were registered in Prague.

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