my mom does a lot of geneaology and she says that's like. the #1 thing she always recommends. Go talk to the oldest member of your family you can stand, LOL. Ask them what they know about family history. Ask them for names. Because a lot of time, you only know someone as "uncle Tony" and it turns out his name was really something else entirely, and he wasn't really an uncle he was a second cousin, and there's a whole fascinating story of why. But if you have real names you can find censuses, immigration paperwork, church database records, grave sites. You can find out so much stuff you never would have known otherwise. It's so good to know.
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Date: 2020-11-10 06:19 pm (UTC)Go talk to the oldest member of your family you can stand, LOL. Ask them what they know about family history. Ask them for names. Because a lot of time, you only know someone as "uncle Tony" and it turns out his name was really something else entirely, and he wasn't really an uncle he was a second cousin, and there's a whole fascinating story of why.
But if you have real names you can find censuses, immigration paperwork, church database records, grave sites. You can find out so much stuff you never would have known otherwise. It's so good to know.