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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
The first thing you need to do is buy a genealogy software program.
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Or download this one for free. I use FTM too, but for free, you can't beat Personal Ancestral File. I've not used it for a while, but I see the latest release is 5.2.18.0, I think what I used was 3.somethingorother a few years ago.
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Originally Posted by flstf
I suspect that many of us who fill out these family trees will wind up with male ancestors who we are not really related to. It is probably safer to trace back female ancestors but many adoptions went undocumented years ago. Now if we could just get DNA samples from everyone.  |
I've found female ancestors the hardest to trace. Our society was not the best in regards to women being important enough to the family. Even some census records didn't take the wife's information into serious account.
And there are some DNA genealogy projects underway.