While your fascination (or addiction) with tracing your family tree is very important to you, getting the rest of your family involved and excited about your ancestry is not always an easy feat. I know that I have spent a ridiculous amount of time researching my family tree and feel this great connection to my ancestors, while others in my family really just aren’t that interested. Not that they don’t like to hear family stories or see pictures, but the [...]
Another heart wrenching story of family tree research leading to the connection of two long-lost families. During WWII, two brothers named Nahum and Yaakov Korenblum fled Poland during the Nazi invasion. They ended up joining the army and were separated. They both spent the rest of their livest trying to track each other down. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
Is tracing down your ancestors and making a family tree something that you’ve always wanted to do but you’re just not sure where to begin? The easy solution in family tree research is to start with yourself. You are the beginning of your family tree. This works out quite perfectly because we know ourselves right? More often than not, we know our parents information as well, and at least our grandparents names. This where you start making a family tree. [...]
The search for our ancestors can be such a rewarding experience and yet quite time consuming and frustrating. The question is how to trace your family tree. Each new record or piece of evidence we find brings about new information about our families. Finding a marriage record for an ancestor is quite exciting. A wealth of information can come from marriage records including a spouses name, place of marriage, birth years, etc.. With the continuous introduction of more and more digital [...]
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