Stevenson Genealogy

Stevenson Genealogy

This is my favorite place to order supplies. They offer a wonderful newsletter each month with helpful tips.  When I was just beginning I wanted a 15 Generation chart, and had no clue as to where I needed to look for them.  I found them here, and when I ordered, and received my package, one of the owners sent me a little note, wishing me luck on my research.  It was so nice to have that, and for all of my needs I come here.

Over the years I have collected memorabilia from various relatives, and Stevenson's Genealogy has various size page protectors, for photos, funeral notices, and paper items that need to be preserved. 

Click on the link above and you will be taken to their site, I have also added their free forms to my sidebar.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.  If you have questions, they are also a great source to ask. 

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.