There is a thread on the forum on DNA tracing which is worth reading. Like many I thought about tracing our ancestors, but never could get around to it until one day I wrote down the names of my grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren. Suddenly, I had a Family Tree of four generations. Hey! - It was a start. It was too late to speak with my parents but my sisters had plentiful information and contacts. I went at tracing our Family Tree in a stop/start manner and pickup up information occasionally especially when attending funerals of distant relatives. The 1901 and 1911 census details were excellent and good to know they are being updated as new information is found. There were a few skeletons-in-the-cupboard found along the way, but such is life. I obtained photos which I copied (and returned) of many, printed off census details, birth certs, death certs, marriage certs where I could. I took pictures of grave stones (of former relatives) in various graveyards and left messages in polly-pocket sleeves for relatives of the deceased to contact me. The information flowed in and I met nearly everybody involved to share details.
I compiled several charts listing all relatives giving year of birth and death and whatever information I found out about them and presented each of our grandchildren and my sisters/brothers grandchildren each with a detailed chart. The thing is the chart is not complete and whenever I can gather more information I update the chart. You can get this done professionally, but doing it yourself is so much more fun. There may be objections, obstacles, work etc, but the satisfaction it brings is non-calculable.
I've reached great-great grandparents details presently, but this might not be the start of the lines as I'm open to more information.
I compiled several charts listing all relatives giving year of birth and death and whatever information I found out about them and presented each of our grandchildren and my sisters/brothers grandchildren each with a detailed chart. The thing is the chart is not complete and whenever I can gather more information I update the chart. You can get this done professionally, but doing it yourself is so much more fun. There may be objections, obstacles, work etc, but the satisfaction it brings is non-calculable.
I've reached great-great grandparents details presently, but this might not be the start of the lines as I'm open to more information.
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