Genealogy: Start your family tree and even do a DNA test to discover who your ancestors are!
Maureen Taylor, a genealogist and a contributing editor of Family Tree magazine, shares tips and resources to help you get started creating your own family tree and discovering your roots.
The first step is to gather all the information you can: relatives' names, death information, locations, etc. Start with your oldest living relatives and their stories. From that point you can use various online resources — some free and some require a monthly or annual subscriptions. Here are a few:
Ancestry.com
This is the big player in field: 3 million active users, 850,000 subscribers and 6 million family trees. It allows you to build your own family tree (adding pictures, stories, etc.) and then share that information with other subscribers. Along the way, your tree is built using the vast amount of online records, including:
- Census records
- Passenger lists from 1820 to 1960
- Birth, marriage and death records
- Military records
- African-American records (U.S. colored troops service records, labor records, narratives from former slaves)
- International records
- Photos and maps
- Historical newspaper collection
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