Where to Start..

When you are seeking your family's tree, how I start is at the end. Yes it sounds morbid, but they cant go anywhere after they are buried. So start with the cemetery. It will give you more than likely a birth date and a death date, and some markers have been fixed with sentiments like wonderful father, husband, uncle etc, that will give you the clue that he had a family. Take the dates that you have and work through the records, you can get a death certificate, birth certificate, and marriage certificate. They will cost anywhere from $10 to $20 dollars, depending on your city.

I started loading all of my family tree information onto Ancestry.com, helps keep it in one place, and well because its free to build a tree, make sure you set it to private, because anyone can copy your photos and take credit for them, and well, im all about sharing but as long as they ask for it, and not take it.

There are many websites that will offer help, most you have to pay, but some are free, and that helps a lot. So many records are being uploaded daily in hopes that others may need, find, discover their families history. Some generations dont go very far, not for lack of looking but for the sheer fact that records weren't kept, or were destroyed. And some generations can go as far as you can find. One of my lines is now up to its 19th generation, they were a very popular family in the 1500's and they kept going on their records as far back as 1100 A.D.