Additional Search Tips

By visiting this site you have embarked on the exciting path of discovering your ancestry and locating your living relatives. Below you will find helpful processes for both locating your ancestors and discovering your living relatives.

Locate your ancestors

1. Select one of the recommended genealogy sites and enter any information you may know about the lives of you parents and grandparents. If you are missing any information, use online search engines such as Google & Yahoo to fill in the blanks when possible.
2. Talk with your family members and recall any stories you remember hearing about your ancestors, if possible, spend time before you meet to write specific memories down to use as a talking point. Family stories can be a very fruitful way of gathering the unique indentifying information sometimes needed in locating distant ancestors.
3. Pull all the information you have gathered together and spend time on the web to research events that may have occurred in specific times & places that your ancestors may have been a part of.
4. At this point, try some of the more specific genealogy search tools available at the recommended sites. With a little luck and thorough research, you might find those missing ancestors.

Discover Living relatives

Find the family member missing at the table during your last family reunion with a people search. A People Search is great way to find and reconnect with family, old friends and relatives. Using the names of ancestors and their descendants in a people search, it is possible to find current phone numbers, address history, ages, birthdates, household members, home value, income and more.