Organize what you already know about your family

• Place this information on a Pedigree chart and family group sheet
• Start with yourself and work back in time

Decide what you want to learn or obtain about your family

• Choose an ancestor
• Identify a question (Born? Married? Died? Parents? etc.)
• Who? Where? When?

Select records to search

• Where to search (Home, National Archives, LDS Family History Center, County
  Courthouse, State Archives/Health Department, etc.)
• Vital Records (Birth, marriage & death records)
• Deeds, wills, naturalization, ship passenger list, passports, obituaries, church/cemetery
  records, headstones
• Heimat, Familien & Ortssippenbuchen (family town books)
• Church records of Austria Hungary (1826-1895 available from LDS)
• Deutsch Ungarischer Familien Kalender (German Hungarian Family Calendar magazines)

Obtain & search these records

• Transcribe the information
• Photocopy the information

Use this information

• Evaluate this information
• Copy new information onto your pedigree charts/family group sheets
• Organize this new information & file these new records
• Share this information with family members to preserve it

Use a computer to aid you in your research and data storage

• Consider using an Internet Service Provider
• Consider obtaining a Genealogy program

Reference Information

• Where do I start? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1993, #2(32916).
   

[Published at DVHH.org 12 Nov 2007]
Submitted by Dennis Bauer
Courtesy of www.trentondonauschwaben.com