The Complete Family History Resource Guide

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How many of you would love to research your family history but don't know where to get started?  Here are some great resources that you can use.

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Let’s start with the most important. “Family history work is first and foremost a spiritual work.” Your family history efforts won’t reach their full potential without the help and inspiration the Spirit can bring. Miraculous moments of finding documents that lead you to new names or new information that fills a gap are entirely within your grasp when you have the Spirit. If you put in the work and follow the promptings of the Spirit, you will find success. Start with the Spirit and apply liberally throughout the entire process.

 

https://mormonhub.com/blog/faith/family-history/complete-family-history-resource-guide/

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I've always been interested in family history and tracing my roots, but the last couple of months I've actually really engaged myself in it.  It's amazing the doors that have been opened to me.  When my mom passed away a couple of months ago and we had to clean out her condo and storage unit, it has been amazing the amount of pictures and family history I have found.  I mean literally trunks, boxes, file cabinets full.  

I've been using ancestry.com to start inputting some of this information. What's great is I can also see some of the work that a couple of my cousins have already done and the resources where they got their information.  So far almost everything has matched with the information I'm finding in the things from my mom and dad.

It's been amazing.  My dad is the only member on his side of the family and I didn't have much information.  But I've now been able to trace his line back to the 1500's.