ABCs of Family Research

While an individual family's history is invariably the beginning of everyone's story, learning about that story invariably sheds further insight into a family's ancestral heritage.

Work in genealogy is like that of a private investigator, the main difference being that many (maybe most) of the people being researched may have already passed, and some may have been dead for centuries. Nevertheless, seeking that record of truth and/or fiction regarding an individual and his or her life, and a...