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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
~Shirley Abbott

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. ~Jane Austen

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."
~Richard Bach

Helpful Information

Here below i have put together some helpful information that i think you may find useful in your research.

Organisation	If I was to start my research again the one thing that I would of done from the start is of been more organised. (if I had known how engrossed I would have become) organisation is such a key thing to have when your researching. You won't realise how quickly you obtain information and how fast your records and research grows. Until someone asks you how did you find that out ? or are you sure you have the right person? This is usually when you begin to panic and ask yourself where you found that piece of info and what website or book? If only i had a more organised way of researching and recorded each piece of information down I would't of spent the past few hours going over my research and douting myself. Many of us have been there and its so so easy to make mistakes. So my advice to you my friends is have some method of organising yourself.

Backup Your Research	I really don't know how much I can stress to you about backing up your research. Imagine that you have spent five years researching your family and that you have kept all what you know on computer along with all your research notes. Then the worsed happens your computer gets a virus or it totally just decides one day its not gonna work again and you have lost everything. Yes five years just happy gone into thin air! I know many people who have had this happened to them and it is a sickening feeling. So just make a backup copy maybe just once a month on cd and if anything did happen then it wouldn't be such a problem. So Backup Backup Backup!!!

Make Use Of Free Websites	Save yourself some money where you can. Im not saying that you will get results with the free websites but they may help you before you subscribe to anything. www.freebmd.org has to be one of the websites i recommend using and www.familysearch.org.

Talk to your Living Relatives	Your living relatives are your clues to your research. These are the people that may of known your parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles and they will have memories and stories to share about them. So maybe keep a diary or note book and write down what they tell you and record it because later on when you go back over your research you will be getting a better understanding of the ancestors your researching. They no longer become just a name on a piece of paper.

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