Why You Need To Explore Your Past
Introduction
Your family’s history is part of your history too.
Perhaps
learning more about your family will inspire you to be a
different person today. Or, perhaps your quest will help
open the door to questions that you may have.
For others, a quest into their family ancestry is one that will provide
them with the tools to pass down information to their own
children and then their grandchildren as well. Genealogy is
something to strive for.
The quest to learn more about your family is something that
people have wanted to know and learn for hundreds of
years.
The need to know about who, what, where, and
when is powerful and virtually any person can relate to
wanting more information about their past, whether it’s their
own or their ancestors.
Our quest to learning your genealogy is a long one and it will
take some work.
There’s nothing simple or easy about the
process of unearthing years of history. Yet, the reward that
will come from it is a reward that will fulfill your history
craving for knowledge. Use this book to help you to begin
your quest.
It seems simple to understand why history is important.
There are countless times that history repeats itself. We are
face with the same choices that we were just a handful of
years ago.
Did we learn from our mistakes or will we make
the same ones over and over again?
Whether you believe in a Higher Power or not, there is still
the question of what could have happened to those that are
in your past. After all, don’t you want to know who was in
your family tree?
Could you be the descendant of one of the Kings or Queens
of England? Perhaps you have an ancestor that was a war
hero in the Revolutionary War. Perhaps the past isn’t as
pretty with ancestors that died in famines, illnesses or strife,
only to save their children that you would eventually come
from.
The “what if” type questions are out there and people in
general are curious about what it means for them.
If you want to know what your chances of learning more about your past you have to give genealogy a chance. You have to
try to learn more.
The good news is that it’s quite possible for many people to
learn more about those in their family trees. The quest
starts with understanding the process of genealogy and then
learning how to get started on your own journey to learn as
much as you can about those that have come before you in
your family tree.
Defining Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of family ancestry. It is the study
and tracing of the family’s pedigrees. During the process of
genealogy, you will collect the names of your relatives,
including those that are deceased and will then establish
their relationship to each other.
This will include exploring various levels of your family tree
as well including primary and secondary family members.
You will use both documentation and word of mouth to help
you to develop your family tree.
The goal is to ultimately
build a family tree that includes all of your relatives as far
back as you would like to take it, or at least as far as you
can take it.
