Quick-tips

Gen-links - 10 quick tips to steps to set you on your way

1. Inform all your family members - you have embarked on discovering YOUR family history
2. Accept every document or photograph you are offered
3. Write down everything you know – names, places, customs and traditions
4. Write down everything you are told – names, places, customs and traditions
5. Collect photographs and documents
6. Interview surviving relatives, starting with the most senior
7. Have relatives identify documents and identify photographs
8. Visit cemeteries – gravestones provide genealogical information
9. Read about the towns and countries you know or have been told about
10. Make your first draft of your family tree
    
    Contact Gen-links and our expertise will help you:
    
    
    • discover your past
    • piece together the fabric of your family history
    • connect you with newly discovered family members
    • break down brick walls