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 * 1) Gather family information from around the house and put into a box


 * Certificates - Birth, Marriage, and Death
 * Bibles
 * Letters
 * Photos
 * Diaries, Journals
 * Obituaries, Newspaper articles
 * Anything else that might contain family information

 Pick your own brain


 * 1) While gathering material download a Pedigree Chart


 * Get it here


 * 1) Fill in Pedigree Chart with what you personally know


 * 1) Made a "To Do List" of items that are missing on the Pedigree Chart


 * Get it here


 * 1) Download a Family Group Sheet for each couple on Pedigree Chart


 * Get it here


 * 1) Fill in each Family Group Sheet from personal knowledge


 * Get it here

 Second Step: Find out what family and friends know
 * 1) Add to your "To Do List" of items missing from the Family Group Sheets
 * 2) Go to box that you have been gather material from around the house and see if there is any thing might help you fill in the blank spaces on the Pedigree Chart and Family Group Sheet
 * 1) Take you "To Do List" to your family members and friends and ask if they can help you fill in the blank spaces.
 * 2) Make copies of various material that they might have such as the ones you gather in you box at home.


 * Gather photographs or copies of ancestors for your own use
 * Copy letters, Diaries, etc

 Third Step: The real research begins


 * 1) See Research Checklist for possible places to start looking in