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GENEALOGY RESEARCH WORK TIPS.
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1. New to genealogy? Here is my basic tip! Start your research work by interviewing all your living relatives, young & old. Write down all information that they tell you. The next step is to find the verification of their story in birth, marriage, death & other local records. Donīt be bothered to find out that a shoe factory owner is a local shoemaker or a farmer is a bank owner. Or if you find thiefs, or runaways that are sailors & later becomes sheep farmers in Australia with the whole family living there instead of in Sweden!
I have gone through all of that! You will too!
2. Your research work will feel something like a part of yourself. Hard to part from & share. I can tell you that after 33 years of research work, at first sight, you donīt want to give it away for free. I also have many relatives that donīt want to share their own work, but this is my basic tips number 2: Share your work with your family & the world! This is the only & best way to get in touch with your relatives. Be generous with your information. They will also do that. Build your own free web site at
Peterīs Web World or any other web site provider. Submit your web site to all search engines you can find, & your relatives will find you! I get between 1-4 emails or phone calls from relatives all over the world every month. It took me about one year after I did this to reach this "ketchup bottle effect". My research work has expanded in the same speed as computers do. I have found out more information in 3 years, than I have in 30 years! Maybe I am lucky & very open. But I will tell you that in my database I have 1.100+ persons &
in my computer I have something like 10.000+ persons! So try this way & be patient. It will work.
3. What is your source? Always secure the source of your information. This is vital to show the value of your research work. No matter if the information comes from a relative, book, internet, another genealogy researcher. You always have to prove that this is true. Itīs one of the basics in your own genealogy research work. As an example I can tell you something interesting from my own research work. I am mostly interested in relatives in America, Australia, Canada etc. And nobody has ever asked me about my sources, no matter if my own relatives
are bank owners, have streets(main road in the sate of Washington) & plazas with their name in Seattle, are members of US chamber of commerce or Sydneys community administration, or a famous australian cook book writer, or a famous australian rugby player(only transfered to another team at the price of 2 million australian dollars, etc! I know this is true & I do also know my sources! But the questions about the sources have focused on one line of ancestry. I face the question perhaps 20 times a year! My daughter, Alexandra & I(& other members of
my family) have an ancestry(no straight line of father to son, but a line) in our blood that comes from the swedish royal dynasty of Wasa. They united the kingdom of Sweden under one crown. We have their blood in our veins(no matter how small). I discovered this 20 years ago & have all the information of sources ready to print! Though I didnīt write down the source of a book, that I found in the 1980īs. This book had information, not vital to my ancestry, but it told us about true & false relationship to the Wasa dynasty. I donīt need that information
& itīs not vital in the verificarion of this, but it tells us that it then was about 80.000 swedes with the same relationship. For me itīs not vital, I know by my secure sources that one of my ancestors was the daughter of Erik XIV of the Wasa dynasty. In my case itīs not disputed if you are related to millionaires, but to royalty & nobility! So always carefully write down your sources of information!
4. I will bring you more tips, but these are the main basics. Later I will tell you the best links to FREE or payed membership links to online genealogy databases. This is coming soon.
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