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Gudmundur Joelsson
 
By Gudmundur Joelsson
Published on 06/2/2009
 
How to Research and Create Your Own Unique Family Tree

You are realetet to whom?

What better place to start documenting your family than with those living relatives gathered all around you? Think about it. Your grandparent or great uncle isn't getting any younger. Now, is the perfect time to start documenting his life, as well as the stories he has to tell?



The very first step to documenting your family history is to start with the person you know best: yourself. Start by writing down everything you know about yourself. Write as if the individuals who will be reading this document know absolutely nothing about you.( Because at some future date, they won't You'll be just a name on a piece of paper to them)



Record your name, your birth date, the location of your birth, as well as your parents' information. Be sure to include your mother's maiden name.



Then record all your vital statistics. Were you baptized, christened, confirmed, bar mitzahed? You can also include the years you went to school, as well as the names of the schools.



Don't leave anything out. Have you been married? Be sure to include the full name of your spouse or spouses, as well as any children who may have been produced through these marriages. If any of these marriages ended in divorce, record the dates of the divorce. This is the information that future generations will use to learn about your family.



Take a interview with your grandparent and remember to have a large scrap book with you , they have many story to tell you ,get picture of people and don't forget to write down the name how are on the picture . Take interview

With family near you and remember the scrap book the 1.2.and 3.th rule is write down or take it up on Dictaphone .



The internet is powerful media to look for information and to look after form to create family tree to find shoftware how build up family tree so you can easy put up family tree .It is good for the kids to be with the parents build up family tree and to learn how they are and from where they come from .



Did you know that President of USA Barack Obama and Republican Vice President Dick Cheney at the same family reunion? Obama and Cheney share a distant relative, Mareen Duvall, an immigrant from France who came to this country in the 1600s. Mareen and Susannah Duvall are Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents. These same ancestors are Cheney's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents.