EBOOK UNCOVERING YOUR ANCESTRY
September 16, 2009 – 10:33 am | by
Your family’s history is part of your history too. Perhaps learning more about your family will inspire you to be a different person today. Or, perhaps your quest will help open the door to questions that you may have. For others, a quest into their family ancestry is one that will provide them with the tools to pass down information to their own children and then their grandchildren as well. Genealogy is something to strive for.
Genealogy is the study of family ancestry. It is the study and tracing of the family’s pedigrees. During the process of genealogy, you will collect the names of your relatives, including those that are deceased and will then establish their relationship to each other.
The genealogist works to understand as much as possible about those that they are uncovering. This often means more than just knowing their names, but also learning about their lifestyle, their motivations in their lives and even piecing together a biography for the family.
The International Genealogical Index, which is known as IGI, is a tool that can be used. It is a transcription record of filmed civil and ecclesiastic records. These records have come from various locations from cooperating local areas around the world. The other database that you can use is known as the Ancestral File or just simply AF. This database is used to collect the information about the member’s contributions over time.
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