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I must admit, I am totally addicted to genealogy. My friends often asked, "How are you going to spend your vacation?" The oft reply was that I would spend my vacations in courthouses, libraries, and cemeteries.

Some thought it a joke, but I was serious. To me, genealogy is detective work, used to solve one big mystery, a jigsaw puzzle, no less. I am trying to fit all the pieces together to make a complete picture; however, I don't have all the pieces. So, I keep on looking. Each new piece of information found is another clue or another piece of the puzzle.

Every bit of new information that I seem to find leads to more questions. Sometimes those questions run into the preverbal brick wall. Even after my over sixty years research, I still discover many unanswered questions. Please continue to visit. I will be posting about them in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, to you newest viewers, I leave you these six hints to recording your own family's history:

1. Recall your ancestors: Write everything down. Make a pedigree chart or a family group record.
2. Use original records in your home: Birth, marriage, and death certificates; family bibles; funeral programs; obituaries; wedding announcements, etc.
3. Ask your family: Visit, call, write, or e-mail grandma, grandpa, aunts or uncles.
4. Choose a particular ancestor you want to learn more about. Look for missing information in your pedigree chart. Genealogy is a game of filling in the blanks.
5. See if someone else already has found the information: Search Google by surname to find information already gathered on that particular surname.
6. Search: Copies of original records, such as censuses and birth records, based on where the person lived and the time of his or her birth, marriage, or death may help. Focus your search through the Internet, visit cemeteries, attend family reunions and gather documents on family vacations.

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