A Little Genealogy Research Help

When searching thru your family tree to find your ancestors, you need documentation to back up what you write. One rule of thumb to remember is a fact is not a fact unless you have something to back it up. So with that being said here are some great places to get started with your research. 1. Your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, or anyone else that can help you fill in the missing pieces. 2. Birth Records - Start with your own birth certificate and work your way up the tree to everyone's that you can find by asking the folks in number one. Then you can research online to find those birth certificates that are missing. A birth certificate has on it parents’ names, mother's maiden names, siblings, ages and addresses. Other forms of birth records are in newspapers, family bibles and also in baptism, christening and confirmation records. 3. Death Records - Death records can be found in newspapers, from funeral homes, cemetery records, old family Bibles, libraries and off the internet. Sometimes they can be written in other types of books or on papers. Be sure to ask everyone in number one before you start looking other places. A Death certificate has a lot of information to offer you for all those blanks that you have in your forms. 4. Marriage Records - Marriage certificates can be found by asking family members if you can make copies of theirs and if they have copies of the deceased loved ones that are the closest to them. You can also find marriage certs in libraries and online. These also have some valuable information on them. The Birth, Death and Marriage certificates are the main documentation that you can find for proof of what you write in your forms and in your family tree information. You can find places and dates in these documents that can lead you to other people, documents and information on your ancestors even some great stories and photos here and again. 5. Don't overlook school records, military records, railroad records, immigration records, naturalization records and citizenship records. All of these things listed here in the post are great places to get more names, dates and places your ancestors lived. Happy Hunting!! Deborah

Organizing Your Genealogy with Forms

When you first set out to discover your ancestors you should have the right forms and charts to help you stay organized thru your genealogy journey. A good way to do this is to have a pedigree chart beginning with you as #1, your father #2 and your mother #3. From there you will begin adding your grandparents. Your dad's dad will be #4, your dad's mom #5, your mom's dad #6 and your mom's mom #7 and so on. If you are a beginner or have not started your pedigree chart there are several places on the internet that you can find free pedigree charts or you can make your own. The other main form you will need is family group record sheets. You will need a lot of these forms because you will need to fill out one for each married couple in your genealogy research. The main information that these forms list is the husband and wife's given names, surnames, date of birth, place of birth, date of marriage, place of marriage, date of death and place of death. They also list the names of the children and the information for each child. You will find some family group record sheets where you can record more information than others. How much information that you store on your family group records is totally up to you but the more information that you list on this form the easier it is to research for more information on that family. You can search in your browser for pedigree charts and family group sheets or you can start with forms from here and here. If you wish you can also get a free document, from the LDS Online Store explaining how to fill out a family group record here.

I have heard that my Turner family from Tennessee has a reunion every year the first Saturday in June at the Recreation Center in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee. I don't really remember when and where I heard this from but found it in my notes. I guess if one was to call the recreation center in Pulaski they might find out one way or the other. Just thought I would let the ones on the Turner side of the family know in case they are interested.

Hi, My name is Deborah and this is my new genealogy blog.