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| Preserve Your Family Legacy. With Visual
Family Tree you can build and share your family tree. Using your personal
computer and the Internet you can now search library records, steamship
ledgers, government files and cemetery ledgers at no cost and from the
convenience of your own home. |
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Record Fill in the names of your family. Start with your name then
add your parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles. Your tree
is started. |
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Research Just point and click to search for distant and lost family
members in the most productive free Internet sites. |
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Create Visual Family Tree uses your information to create
personalized family tree charts, web pages, and a variety of filled in forms
and reports. |
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Share Share your family tree charts and reports with your family and
friends. |
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Google Optimized
Genealogy Searcher |
Enter Grandparent's Last Name and Click Search
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Your Free Family Tree Starter
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Click on each item below to open a
new window. Then print one or more copies.
•Getting Started: How to start,
organize your research and record your results.
•Google Search Tips: Search Tips and
Techniques for Online Research.
•Relationship Table: Shows how
two people are related to each other.
•Family Tree Chart: Fill in
four generations of ancestors for your tree.
•Family Group Record: Show details
for all family members of a family.
•Personal Record: Record
important detail for each family member.
•Correspondence Log: Keep
track of people you have contacted.
•Source Summary: Record the
location where you found information.
•Progress Schedule: Record when
and what you have researched.
•Free Software: Computer
program download to record your research. |
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Start With Yourself |
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To start your family tree first record
birth and marriage dates and places about yourself and other close family
members. Then work backwards. Next, contact older family members for family
information. Ask specifically for maiden names, birth, marriage and death dates
and places. |
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Fill-in Your Family Tree
Ancestral Chart |
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Write all the information on family
tree ancestral charts. Fill in vital events such as birth, marriage, death and
burial next to each person's name. When finished you will be able to see which
ancestors are missing and what information you still need to find. |
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Talk to Family Members and
Relatives |
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Talk to your aunts, uncles, parents
and grandparents in more distant families to find new information and to verify
what you already know. Prepare questions such as when and where your ancestors
came from. Fill in a Family Group Record form for each family. This shows the
husband and wife plus all children. It enables you to keep track of the entire
family. Use the Personal Record form to record extensive information for a
person. |
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Use Research Done by
Others |
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Other family historians may have
already completed the research for you. There are more than 600 million names
in user submitted genealogies and family trees available to you. Additional
compiled sources include family histories, pedigree charts and biographies.
Continue your research by using these name indexes and records compiled by
previous researchers. |
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On-Line Databases |
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With your personal computer and the Internet you
can now search library records, steamship ledgers, government files, cemetery
ledgers at no cost and from the convenience of your own home. Visual Family
Tree contains links to the best and most productive free Internet databases.
Just point and click to search for distant and lost family members.
Click here to access list of free on line
databases. |
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Access Original Records |
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After checking compiled sources to see
what has already been done by other researchers begin researching original
records. Original records include birth, death and marriage records, city
directories, church records, census schedules, probate records, court records
and military records. You should do your research with original records
whenever possible. |
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Genealogy Computer Software |
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A computer program is an excellent
tool for organizing and saving your family history and search results. A
genealogy software program such as Visual Family Tree which is available
to you at no cost simplifies the process of building your family tree. It
stores your information in an organized genealogical data file. Any individual
or family can quickly be added, found or modified. It can also make family tree
web pages and print copies of your research results.
Click here to download Visual Family
Tree |
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