Beginning Your Search for Your Family Tree

Origins of a family have meaning and history. By keeping track of family relations also known as a family tree it can allow us to keep records of the past. The Edwards family tree shows great record from the early 1700 's to the mid 1800 's. This family tree demonstrates when a person was baptized; when they got married; and when they passed away. The Edwards family chart show the different relations of marriages and fertility rate from today 's society. From the chart we can determine that the Edwards family show a different demography compared to todays society. This is because life expectancy was shorter; families were larger; and finally marriages were happening at a young age.

I started a family, researching into genealogy last year. I found distant cousins through trees and Ancestry DNA. Jaguanana reached out to me on Ancestry our DNA predicted us 1st-2nd cousins by

My tree is set to private, but I'm willing to share it to those with surnames listed on my research list. I'm constantly researching and to any cousins past the levels not able to trace, I'll be in touch when can find any leads.

The target audience plays a huge role in determining if a traditional publishing or self-publishing method will be used to print a family history. While the Larson family history might appeal to some people, those who have the most interested are family members. The manuscript will cover five generations, with stories and pictures. The main purpose for publishing this family history is to share family stories with immediate family members and extended family.

I’m amazed at how many Americans don’t know their own family heritage any further back than their grandparents. For many years, I was one of them. I would casually tell people, “My family never really talked much about our family tree, because we were afraid we’d find horse thieves hanging from the branches.” But, bad or good, I always wondered about my roots.

To start my family origin paper we have to go way back to 1976 when my parents met in Alamo, North Dakota; a town of about 200 people in the northwestern part of the state. They met while going through school playing sports, mainly basketball. Both were pretty good at the sport and won some awards and had chances to play more but decided to get married and start a family instead. Both grew up around the whole farming scene. My mom actually lived on a farm growing up and also as she started her own family. My dad lived in the small town but his grandpa had a farm not far from where he grew up and also helped a lot of the local

Since I have always had such a fascination with genealogy, I thought it an honorable undertaking to research our ancestry. I wish someone had done it fifty years ago so that I might have access to more information on our direct line of ancestors, other than the word of mouth passed down through the generations that I’ve had to rely on and what little I have found digging through dusty courthouse records.”

Genealogy is a curiosity for most, a hobby for many and an obsession for some. Reason to listen: Genealogy is not a new activity and it is not isolated to any one culture. It bridges across all cultures and eras. All its roots, genealogy satisfies basic human curiosity.

Though I felt dread, I also felt lucky, because my own family’s transition into the U.S. seemed suddenly quite simple. In the early 1900’s my grandmother was believed to have been kidnapped and brought “illegally” across the border, but all children born to my family after that were U.S. citizens by birth. I began to think, the mother to that girl came here to the U.S. to be an American, and though she may not legally be an American she is still an American

As I embarked on this assignment I was unsure how to begin and what stories to tell. I did not know if I should commence with how my family came to America, my family tree, or a fascinating story about how my grandparents met. In order to complete this assignment I convened with my grandfather, Earl W. Stafford Sr., who knows a lot about our family history, to learn as much as I could.

Growing up I have held on to single story about myself as well as my family. My parents are both from Guyana, South America. They came to America in their twenty’s to make a life for themselves. A lot of their families still live in Guyana till this day. I do not know a lot of them, but the ones that are in America

Do you ever ponder about how and why your family came to America? Most of the material I’m about to talk about is history of my family.

Family history is very important to an individual. By knowing where you come from, you can have a better perspective of your life. Having a clear understanding of your family background allows you to better appreciate the things that you would normally take for granted. The house, the car, and the average clothing may look better when one sees the sacrifices their family has made. They will see that their family has worked very hard just so their family can experience the better things in life. A persons roots and origin is one of the most important things to explore. It alone can bring you closer to self-discovery.

There are many directions I could study my cultural history. I could search for so many answers to questions about my family. Are we descendents of Chinese people? Were we a powerful family in Vietnam? Are we related to any royalty? I could not decide how far back I wanted to explore my family tree or if I wanted to research my mother’s family or my father’s family. I was not even sure if I could find any answers at all. All of these questions are relevant if I wish to discover the people in my family line. However, none of these explain what makes me who I am today.

The family tree is an incredible nonprofit agency located in central Maryland in Baltimore city, with many programs for children, adults, and the community as whole. The Family Tree is the perfect combination of its predecessors “The Parents Anonymous of Maryland” and “The Child Abuse Prevention Center” in diversity, techniques and procedures and funding. While continuously succeeding, the Family Tree, still looks at their mission to guide them, which is, “Improving the community by providing families with proven solutions to prevent child abuse and neglect”(Thefamilytreemd.org). The family tree might be a relatively new agency in itself however, it is also a strong support system the community needs.