Narrow Your Search
- Find information about your most recent ancestors, the work back in time. Start with your parents, then your grandparents, then your great-grandparents, and so on.
- Select one family or individual at a time to work on.
- Look for information on a record that will lead to other records. Birth, marriage, and death records may also contain information about parents, spouse, and children.
Resources to Search
You can construct your ancestor’s file from information found in different records:
- State Vital Records
- Death Records
- Obituaries
- Cemetary Records
- US Social Security Index
- US Census Records
- Marriage Records
- Church/Parish Records
- Newspaper articles
- Regional Biographies
Research on the Web
“Conducting Internet Searches for Family History”
FamilySearch.org: Free online family records and census records
Ancestry.com: Fees apply. Online family records, census records