There is a Family Tree Goldmine hiding in your attic?

Most armchair genealogists today are so conditioned to almost anything online that we often forget some of the basic "old school" methods that worked so well years before anyone had even heard of the Internet to search for. Then turn off the computer, get up on your desk and get ready for some down and dirty to do genealogical research, how can it be done first.

Where to start? Well, if your parents or grandparents have a penthouse, get ready for a dusty afternoonrummage through closets and boxes of old records in search of family. Papers include: title deeds, military records, birth certificates and death looking for, and the Old Testament. Take a notebook and write the name of each document to find you, and all dates and all names (both people and places) that are mentioned.

As you are the documents and the names and dates? Test names in a search of online resources, you probably knowwith. One reason many people are frustrated with their genealogical research, which simply can not find much - if necessary - online. The names and information that can be detected with conventional methods, the better the chance of success if you try today's "advanced methods. Remember, learning the techniques for finding new, all your tree take shape by the pieces of the puzzle is.

Letters from the past

If you have an oldLetter, perhaps a few hundred years, you hear the voice of your ancestors, in his words. The ink disappears, and you may find it hard to read letters. Instead of ruining your eyes or frustrated, take pictures of the letters or copy or scan, and expanded. Then write (by hand copy) of the letters so as to help identify the person must be at a later date. Add any notes dates, addresses onEnvelopes, and the dates the letters were written. As you go through old letters, many of the names is not entirely familiar. However, not ignore them. Write down each name on a master list. If you have a spreadsheet, you can change the names are in alphabetical order. The deeper you go in your research, the more you will come to its name, and discover who these people are.

Old Account Books

Families in the 19 century and still careAccount. These books may be of different types. The women held the book budget money for food, fuel and other needs of the family spent. Farms and small businesses gave an accounting of their operations. In addition, fathers accounts are held at their will. The money that a child had progressed to its heritage, be carefully written, it would be with all payments and all amounts outstanding in respect of the child is part of the property will be chargedWhen his father died.

Logs

People in the past were more inclined to keep a diary or journal today. Travelers kept diaries of their explorations, and students kept diaries when they went to school. Read all the magazines are carefully and take note of people and places that are mentioned. This will help you later.