Use this guide if you want to trace your family tree, perhaps as a winter project or before older relatives' memories are lost. Have a notebook or family tree app and any family documents, photos, certificates or letters you can find.
Step by step
Start with yourself and work backwards
Write down what you know for certain about yourself, your parents and your grandparents: full names, dates and places of birth, marriage and death. Mark each fact as 'confirmed with document' or 'family story'. Working one generation at a time from known facts avoids the common mistake of attaching yourself to the wrong family further back.
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