Burned Counties Research: Difference between revisions

'''''[[Sharing: a good way to FIND ancestors|Share]] and collaborate.'''''  Give in order to receive. Share your genealogy and pedigree with one or more sites such as FamilySearch [https://familysearch.org/tree Family Tree], FamilySearch [https://familysearch.org/tree Pedigree Resource File], Ancestry.com [http://trees.ancestry.com/tree Family Trees], RootsWeb [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ WorldConnect], or [https://www.onegreatfamily.com/home/sp OneGreatFamily.com]. Share your genealogy on [[Social Media|social media]] like '''''Facebook'''''. [[Hiring a DNA Testing Company|Test your DNA]], and share the results with public DNA databases. Leave some family history, or a query, on an Internet genealogy [[Message Boards|message board]]—and repeat for several months. Contribute to the [https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Help:Wiki_University_How_to_Contribute Family History Research Wiki]. Send a copy of your ancestor John Doe’s family history (include your address) to each county library and to each state and county genealogical society where John Doe lived. Publish an article on the family in their local genealogical periodical. Register your address in directories of members of genealogical Internet web sites and submit your genealogy to their libraries. [[Create a genealogy web page|Put your genealogy on a web page]] and register your site with major search engines and lists ([http://www.cyndislist.com/submit/ Cyndi's List]). Other researchers will start to contact you and share added details.  

'''Summary. ''' Burned counties do not have to be end of the line research situations if you prepare well, look for alternatives, search a variety of jurisdictions and repositories for the family, kin, and associates, approach such research problems in innovative ways, and follow-up well.