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It is best to use a loose-leaf binder and paper for genealogy... that way you can add notes in right where they should be. Make notes about everything that you do in your research - whether you find anything or not. That way you know what you have already done and where you still need to look.

Start with what you personally know and write it down. Research records in order to find documents to support what you know and continue in this manner.

Ask your older relatives for information and write it down. Go back and do more research to find proof of what you are told. Not that people would purposely mislead you, but this way you will have the documents to back you up, and you won't end up on a wild goose chase.

From documentation that you already have, see if you can fill in any blanks and keep going until you can no longer document what you are researching.

Remember that there wasn't always records kept... the farther back you get the harder it will be to prove your theories. When searching documents, don't forget to check those records that are close, but not quite what you are looking for. You may have another piece of the puzzle that you didn't even realize was out there. For example: You are looking through the marriage records for your Great-Uncle Tom and his wife Aliza in 1850, but you find a man with your uncle's name and married to a woman named Mary in 1845. It may just be that your uncle was married twice and either divorced or was widowed.

Do not just rely on e-mail lists and\or the Internet. You will not find the necessary records on the Web and you can't prove through e-mail that your Grandpa George was related to username@domain.com's Grandma Dorothy without records to back it up. You have to go and get (or write for) copies of documents to either prove or disprove that relationship.

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Check out the Genealogy Links .

Rose #3 Rue's home Page
Information on the American Revolution and the American Revolution List
Information on the Society for Creative Anachronism
My Genealogy Surnames
How to Start Your Genealogy

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