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I started to research my family tree about 4 years ago. I had a large box of pictures (some labeled) and no clue where to go from there.
I heard about the LDS site and tried there, then found that there were about 4 million genealogy pages on the net. I have suffered from "monitor neck" (that strange condition that occurs when your monitor is too high and off to one side- you hold your head funny for the next day after a long nite surfing the web), have "favorites file" over load and have had my family send the dog into my home office to see if he can find me under the pile of e-mails and books.
Many of the Kentucky genealogy web sites have message boards, I havn't received many answers to my postings, but when I discovered the archives for these boards I hit some gold there!
I never knew that we were related to the McCoys till I found an old posing and was lucky to find the original people still had the same e-mail address.
Eventually, I found some addresses and wrote to family members (who I have never met!) and got a great response, they had more information and were willing to share it with me.
I would like to thank my new found relatives that I have met over the net, those I have corresponded with and also all those great people who have set up their web pages to share family information. Here are some of my favorite sites:
The Weddington Web Page Lineages' East Kentucky Genealogy Kentuckiana Genealogy Rootsweb GenForum Family Search Family History www.nara.gov/genealogy |
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Research Tips Be sure to evaluate the source of your information. Remember, you can't believe everything you read!
Remember, most everyone has two family names: your father's, but also your mother's. Don't feel you must restrict your research to just your paternal family tree.
Talk to your family, ask questions and document what they tell you.
Find out if there are family bibles, journals or other documents that might contain information you can use.
Research, research, research! The net has a lot of information, the local library in your family's home town might have a family history written by a distant relative. Were there any published family histories? Check out book stores. 
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