answers1: If you need a place to start, your local public library
provides the software, reference materials, and a slew of resources
that you'll never find on the internet. If you make contact with the
awesome-est researchers available to you, the reference librarians,
you will get a walk through on how to organize your information, where
to look, what you need to capture and how to organize the information.
If you live in the community where your parents, grandparents and
great-grandparents lived, it's exactly the right place for you to find
birth announcements, engagement and marriage announcements, and
obituaries for free. <br>
<br>
The other great benefit of libraries is that most local genealogy and
historical societies either hold regular meetings there or hold
frequent information sessions and lectures. <br>
<br>
But the greatest part of libraries is that you get this wealth of
resources for no more cost nor effort than a library card.
answers2: Pretty much like you do in any other state in the USA; start
with yourself and work backwards, documenting what you find. Ask your
parents, grandparents and great grandparents about their lives before
it is too late. <br>
<br>
Here are some pages that Illinois has that most states don't, though,
courtesy of their Secretary of State (sos): <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/deathsrch.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/death...</a>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/idphdeathsrch.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/idphd...</a>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/marrs...</a>
<br>
<br>
All states have a US Gen Web site, with links to county sites. Here is
the one for Illinois: <br>
http://ilgenweb.net/ <br>
<br>
You might want to visit a Mormon Family History Center. They have PC's
which are usually loaded with helpful bookmarks, a few resources you
can't find on the Internet, plus they are staffed with people who know
their stuff, love to help beginners, and don't try to convert you.
Find one near you: <br>
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp <br>
<br>
Finally, people ask "How can I find my family history, for FREE?" here
3 - 15 times a day. Most feel the need to use all caps on "free",
oddly enough. The resolved questions are full of links and tips.
answers3: Lise, you all ready have excellent answers. Here are a
couple others. Always start at home with your family first, next is
your public library looking for books on local history, regional to
see what you might glean on any of your ancestors. The library usually
has index books, for birth, marriage and death records for the county.
<br>
<br>
Here is a reference website that has the tools you need for hands or
research. <br>
<br>
http://www.genealogy-research-tools.com <br>
<br>
Also any chance you get to go to a cemetery where your ancestors are
buried go. <br>
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Enjoy your genealogy experience.
answers4: 1
answers5: You start in exactly the same way as anyone else in the
World does....with you and the records you already have at home and in
the homes of all your living relations.................. this enables
you to learn how to research and still have people a live to ask
questions of, so in the future you know what to look for and don't
think copy abd paste from websites is the way to do it <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin...</a>
this will help you get started it also gives you a choice of several
free FH software so you can keep all what you find safe, secure and
organised...then the links page will help you futher,,,, and there are
several good US researchers on here, so if you get stuck ....
ask.......best of luck
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