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How to search your roots
Part II
Last month, we discussed the two
formats (the pedigree and the family
tree) that are the basis for genealogy.
However, you may wonder how to go
about filling in the many blanks that
will occur on your charts.
At Home
The first place to start is right in
your own home. Every household has
its important papers, including birth,
marriage, and death certificates, as
well as scrapbooks, family Bibles,
and pictures. These will give you
some exact data and establish rela-
tionships between family members.
Actual certificates or announce-
ment cards for births, marriages, and
Davey Campbell meets an old friend. A
good source of lively anecdotes is the
conversation between old friends and
relatives. Tune in with pen and pad.
deaths are important as documenta-
tion of a certain event in a person's
life. Sometimes, this information can
also be found in a family Bible or a
family register. Scrapbooks or clipp-
ings from a newspaper can also con-
tain this and other information about
various family members. You should
also look for other documents such as
letters, diaries, land deeds, wills,
passports, or ID cards. Photograph
albums, besides being interesting for
their pictures, may also contain notes
regarding the persons depicted.
Once you have exhausted your desk
drawer (or wherever else you keep
your old records), you should check
with your relatives to see if they have
anything. Often an aunt or a great-
aunt may have kept many of these
things over the years.
As you collect this information,
you should file the original or a
photocopy as proof for later
reference. At the very least, you
should write down where you got the
information — what document or
other source, who has it, when it was
originally written.
Occasionally you will find that two
sources do not agree on a date or on
the spelling of a name. In this case,
you may have to weigh which source
is more likely to be accurate.
However, as you continue your
research, you will usually find other
evidence which will support or re-
inforce one or the other of the con-
flicting sources. As a rule of thumb,
the closer the source is to the actual
event, the more authority it will have.
But each case has to be judged on its
merits.
Relatives
Another source close to home is
your relatives, especially the older
ones. You can ask them what they
remember of the family, their parents