Researching Your Family Tree? Just Click Your Heels Three Times - There's No Place Like Home
When it comes to researching and building your family tree, you need to gather information. To start your research, put your ruby slippers on, click your heels three times, and repeat, "There's no place like home... " That's right - some of your best genealogy research can be done without leaving home. If you thought your days of homework were over think again - you're going to do your "home" work, and I mean that literally. Before you plan an expensive and long-distance trip to one of the three premier genealogy research centers - the DAR Library in Washington, D.C.; the National Archives (also in D.C.); or the Family Research Center in Salt Lake City - start your research in the comfort of your own home. Before you open up a book or view a microform, open up communication with your immediate and extended family and collect as much family history through their recollections. Ask your family members to give you names, dates, and places. Ask them if they...