My name is Wayne.\u00a0\u00a0I started this blog as a way to help me focus as I delve into the world of Genealogy.<\/p>\n
I should probably start from the beginning. While trying to incorporate my love of history and my hobby of computers I needed to find a way to blend all of my interests into one.\u00a0 So I started looking around the computer stores and found a new DOS based program called Family Tree Maker.<\/p>\n
Loaded it up on my 80286 computer and away I went.\u00a0 You start out with your mother and father and in my case my sister.\u00a0 I didn’t have the luxury of being able to talk\u00a0 to my parents,\u00a0since they\u00a0had both passed away, so\u00a0I talked to my Aunt Mildred, who was my Grandmothers sister on my mothers side.<\/p>\n
It didn’t take long till I was talking to cousins I didn’t even know I had. Unlike today, the days before the internet meant spending a lot of time on the phone, libraries and\u00a0historical society’s’ going through books, record cards and microfiche.\u00a0 It was a very time consuming effort.<\/p>\n
An example of what you did then was to go to the library and lookup a death notice.\u00a0 That in turn may give you the cemetery where they were buried.\u00a0 You go to the cemetery and look at their records for internment\u00a0\u00a0date and maybe a cause of death\u00a0or if anyone else was buried in their plot.\u00a0 Many older cemetery’s used to bury as many as three in a single plot, such as a child that died at birth.<\/p>\n
There are many good sources of information to help you in your quest.\u00a0 Census records are an excellent way to see who was living in an household at a point in time.\u00a0 Be careful though, many last names are not necessarily spelled the same way all the time.\u00a0 An example of this is Bayes, Bayse\u00a0or Bays, it was up to the\u00a0clerk filling out the record.<\/p>\n
In the beginning I found myself finding many people quickly.\u00a0 After a while that began to slow down.\u00a0 Sometime you will find 5, 6 or 7 people in a day, other times you a go a week or two and only find one person.<\/p>\n
Don’t let yourself get burned out.\u00a0 Put it aside\u00a0for\u00a0a while and pick it up later.<\/p>\n
It is a fun hobby.\u00a0 You learn a lot about yourself in the process.\u00a0 Most of all it help you get close to your family.<\/p>\n
Till the next time,<\/p>\n
Wayne<\/p>\n
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