Genealogy on the Web
Since the 1970’s I have been the family historian. Nearly every year I traveled to Minnesota and North Dakota to visit family and have long enjoyable conversations with older members of my family to obtain genealogy information. I spent many pleasant hours walking through cemeteries and obtaining information.
I would spend the rest of the year following up on the information by writing to city clerks offices for birth, death and marriage certificates; writing churches for baptism records; joining historical and genealogy societies in areas where my family had lived; and writing to other family members for more information. This took a lot of time and postage. After the work was done I would neatly type all of the information on heritage charts.
Today, with the use of the internet, the work is not as personal, but much faster and more complete. Census records, public records and genealogy and historical society websites are available online. The heritage carts can be done on the computer using software that allows you to quickly and easily make corrections and store print reports listings a person’s ancestors, descendants, and other pertinent information.
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