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In the many years that I've been climbing the family tree I'm amazed at how much can be found online. And, even more genealogy information comes online with each passing year. However, I'm surprised at how often I hear people tell me that they can never find any genealogy information about their family. Nothing could be further from the truth. You see, I think there's information online about everyone's family - - but people just don't know how or where to look. If you'd like to get started discovering your ancestors, here are 3 super easy way to sidestep the challenges. 1. Have a plan. This sounds simple, doesn't it? But, like anything else, you'll achieve far more if you have a game plan. Here's an analogy: Think of genealogy searches like family vacations. If you don't have an end destination and a map or GPS, it's guaranteed you will wander around and around. In terms of genealogy, when you go online to search for ancestors, know wha...

Ancestor Hunting: As a beginner you need to keep it simple. Embarking on an ancestor hunt can be as exciting as looking for buried treasure. For the hunter the early enthusiasm can, however, quickly drain away if early successes are few, and a clear route is not apparent to finding that nugget of information about an ancestor. The sheer enormity of the task may then seem overwhelming. So, as a beginner, keep it simple, and go for the lowest hanging fruit first. A family tree chart should start with you, then branch along to any siblings you have - names, and dates of birth. Then you can consider the connections to your parents, and any brothers and sisters of theirs. This should be easy work, and quickly you will have some solid foundational information on which to move further up the tree to the next generation within the family, and so on. One temptation is to move too fast, and become entangled in the cross branches where there maybe many cousins, including first and second cousins...

People are interesting. Every single person who ever lived has a story to tell. When you scratch the surface of any human being you will find a rich range of events that go to make up who that person is: a variety of happy, sad, tragic, celebratory, inspirational and all sorts of emotive happenings that create a unique individual. So when you are finding your ancestors, why be content with just names and dates? It seems a shame that some people who trace their ancestry are only content to collect a list of names and dates, their driving force to go back as far as possible in time. While I fully understand the satisfaction of going back another generation and finding new names to add to your tree, for me, and many others, it is the mixture of this and also finding out about the history of individuals that provides the full satisfaction and excitement of tracing ancestors. Those names on your tree were once living, breathing human beings, affected by the times and environment they lived...