What are some of the best ways to obtain your family genealogy?

answers1: Do all the research yourself and document every piece of
information you obtain, either through interviews with family members
or documentation (birth, marriage, death records, wills and land
records legal and church documents) and keep records of your sources
and where they are located. <br>
You might check Genealogy101.com or about Genealogy.com or take a
class or two at public libraries or a Family History Centers
answers2: This might help. You can also look back at previous
questions like yours for more help. <br>
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answers3: You have to speak to the oldest person living in your family
and find out where your mother and father was born. And get dna
results from a laboratory.
answers4: 1) Be richer than God, so you can commission a really
competent genealogist to do it for you while you check out the 3-star
restaurants in Burgundy. <br>
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2) Have four great-aunts, one in each branch of your family, who have
each devoted 30 years to the chase, and have, for each person, <br>
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a) At least three independent citations. <br>
b) All six of the BMD dates and places. <br>
c) A 5,000-word biography. <br>
d) A couple of juicy tidbits that DON'T make it to the published work. <br>
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Take them to dinner, one by one, to a place with cloth napkins, real
flowers, a 16-page wine list and a dessert cart so heavy the wheels
groan. After $200 worth of food and $400 worth of wine (I can help
there), beg for a GEDCOM. <br>
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3) Be a member of a family that has a 1,000-member family history
association, and has commissioned a research project with a really
competent genealogist, the results of which they sell as an 800-page
hard-bound volume for the cost of printing. <br>
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You asked. #3 happened to me. If you really meant "How can I research
my family tree, for FREE?", the resolved questions are full of
answers. Someone asks that 2 - 12 times a day here.
answers5: The best ways are the records you already have at
home.................... <br>
Old relations, and their family stories, although great doesn't prove
anything and on research are often completely untrue...but fun and do
give you clues and you have a idea about your families oral history (
and story telling capacity)................... <br>
The internet has speeded things up, forums, transcriptions etc but you
still need to check everuything back to records before you are sure
and can prove it............which many people now forget or have never
done.............. <br>
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Some of my most enjoyable searching are group genealogy in FH groups
and taking one persons 'brickwall' and researching it............ this
is somewhat replicated on here and other message boards and
forums............ what one person misses another finds and then that
infomeation gives a clue which enables more to be found by others...I
often think it is a shame only one gets best answer, when often it
clearly is a group effort.........................