Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Valentine's Day is Gone, now get to work!

February is half over and your excuses for putting off working on your family history is gone! So, get out your Personal Ancestry File (PAF) and decide who you want to work on finding in February.

Do you know it is Waitangi Day, and Black History Month? Did you know that the 1910 US Fed Census is now available for all 50 states? There are records available from New Zealand or about any country in the world; so where did your family line originate? One of mine was from Copenhagen another from Holland.

What do you know about the countries where your family came from or what the conditions were that caused them to give up their homelands, language, close family ties and hope for a letter once or twice a year? Many times it was the lack of land, or religious persecution; what caused your family's patriarch to look beyond the borders of his own country? Isn't it about time you found out?