A Genealogical Starting Point

Starting Point: August 2014.  I hadn't really engaged in genealogy with any real effort...ever.  I mean, when I was a teenager, I became familiar with my family history that my mom had gathered, and the books that my dad's cousins had put together, and could navigate the generations in a family tree program.  I hadn't done any research, though.

When I went to England, I made sure to take 6 generations of my pedigree with me to remember my roots (mostly British) and to think about the significance of teaching in places where my ancestors could have visited.

After returning home and marrying Jen, we took a family history class (twice!) through church and learned some of the basics of perusing records through a few online resources (as of 2003-2004), but nothing really came of it because we had to go to the family history library to access memberships in databases.

But then-- as we referenced last year, FamilySearch Indexing has pretty much changed the way we can access low-level genealogy research.  We can get our feet wet without ever leaving our home.

This month, rather than rambling/pontificating too much, I want to create a storehouse of methods/stories/exhibits of not only some of the people that make me ME, but to introduce some of the steps I've taken since August to identify my ancestors.  Through the course of the month, I'm going to highlight some of the details of the lives of my 32 great-great-great grandparents.  I think this'll be fun!

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