What better place to start documenting your family than with those living relatives gathered all around you? Think about it. Your grandparent or great uncle isn't getting any younger. Now, is the perfect time to start documenting his life, as well as the stories he has to tell?
The very first step to documenting your family history is to start with the person you know best: yourself. Start by writing down everything you know about yourself. Write as if the individuals who will be reading this document know absolutely nothing about you. (Because at some future date, they won't! You'll be just a name on a piece of paper to them!)
Record your name, your birthdate, the location of your birth, as well as your parents' information. Be sure to include your mother's maiden name.
Then record all your vital statistics. Were you baptized, christened, confirmed, bar mitzahed? You can also include the years you went to school, as well as the names of the schools.
Don't leave anything out. Have you been married? Be sure to include the full name of your spouse or spouses, as well as any children who may have been produced through these marriages. If any of these marriages ended in divorce, record the dates of the divorce. This is the information that future generations will use to learn about your family.
In Tip #5 of 10 Tips to Unearthing Your Family History, I'll give you some information on what is one of the most important tools of your search . . .
In the meantime, here's another bit of presidential genealogy from my Which President is Related to Whom? file.
Zachery Taylor, the twelfth U.S. President was the second cousin of former President James Monroe.
VoodooGenealogy.com
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