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=== Technology has changed the way we build our family trees. === | === Technology has changed the way we build our family trees. === | ||
Even a few years ago, people who wanted to begin their family trees started with nicely sharpened lead pencils and a little stack of "Family Group Sheets". This method was useful | |||
Even a few years ago, people who wanted to begin their family trees started with nicely sharpened lead pencils and a little stack of "Family Group Sheets". This method was useful to organize the information already in their possession but did nothing to help in their search for new information. To find new information they utilized tools like mail-in requests for hard copies of records or travels to libraries and county seats. It was a lonely and solitary pursuit that provided very little collaboration with folks who were working on our same lines. None of us who industriously filed hard copies of documents into binders and completed family group sheets by hand dreamed of the future that lay waiting for genealogists. The future is here and things have changed.<br> | |||
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Revision as of 14:19, 27 March 2014
Technology has changed the way we build our family trees.[edit | edit source]
Even a few years ago, people who wanted to begin their family trees started with nicely sharpened lead pencils and a little stack of "Family Group Sheets". This method was useful to organize the information already in their possession but did nothing to help in their search for new information. To find new information they utilized tools like mail-in requests for hard copies of records or travels to libraries and county seats. It was a lonely and solitary pursuit that provided very little collaboration with folks who were working on our same lines. None of us who industriously filed hard copies of documents into binders and completed family group sheets by hand dreamed of the future that lay waiting for genealogists. The future is here and things have changed.
In this computerized society starting your family tree is at your fingertips. With the click of a mouse and a good browser (Mozilla Firefox works best here) you are ready to begin. On FamilySearch, you can build your family tree and on the FamilySearch Research Wiki you will find the records that you need at no expense...ever. It's simple; it's easy; and it's free.