Fifteen years ago, all I knew about my family history was the names of my eight great-grandparents, all born after 1860. I started working on my family tree in the late 1990s, and I now have the names of 14 out of 16 possible 2nd-great-grandparents, 64 total direct ancestors, including one branch that goes back 10 generations to an 8th-great-grandfather born in the mid-1600s. I have also worked downward from some distant ancestors, identifying over 600 descendants of one 5th-great-grandfather born in 1785, and 138 descendants of a 2nd-great-grandfather.
I'll be blogging about some of my research strategies and developments on the three Jewish sides of my family. Over the years, I've worked my way up from simple American census records online to original vital record documents to European records on JewishGen and through the LDS church's microfilm rental. I hope this will make for some interesting reading for the genealogically-obsessed, and will give you some ideas for taking your own research to the next level.
You'll find on this page some links to some of the genealogical resources that I use most frequently.
I'll be blogging about some of my research strategies and developments on the three Jewish sides of my family. Over the years, I've worked my way up from simple American census records online to original vital record documents to European records on JewishGen and through the LDS church's microfilm rental. I hope this will make for some interesting reading for the genealogically-obsessed, and will give you some ideas for taking your own research to the next level.
You'll find on this page some links to some of the genealogical resources that I use most frequently.
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