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*Search for names as well as dates and places of important life events. | *Search for names as well as dates and places of important life events. | ||
*Look for records you have close to home: | *Look for records you have close to home: | ||
** | **Certificates of births, deaths, and marriages | ||
** | **Funeral programs | ||
** | **Documents relating to education | ||
** | **Documents about military service | ||
**Photographs | |||
**Newspaper articles | |||
**Birth announcements | |||
**Marriage announcements | |||
**Obituaries | |||
**Letters | |||
**Passports | |||
**Citizenship or naturalization papers | |||
**Family bibles | |||
**Journals | |||
*Talk with living relatives to learn additional information they might have on your ancestors. | *Talk with living relatives to learn additional information they might have on your ancestors. | ||