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Today’s Genealogy Tip is to help you begin your journey through your family tree. If you have living relatives – parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles – that you are in touch with, talk to them before you begin! Family stories are not always correct, but they normally have some grains of truth in them. Find out names and maiden names of your grandparents, their parents, siblings, anyone and everyone your family knows about. Particularly if you have common names in your family, a list of siblings can help get you started identifying the right family in the 1940 census.
When I first started researching, I found out my grandfather’s aunts and uncles on his father’s side, which allowed me to first find the family in the 1920, 1910, and 1900 US Federal Census records. This was the first step in starting my family tree.
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