Chapter Five: Advanced Genealogy Search

How to Conduct an Advanced Search

In your quest to locate your ancestors, your ultimate goal is to compile as much relevant information about their lives as you can.

This means performing an in-depth investigation into every record that you uncover concerning your blood relatives. Locating this information is no easy task, but there are techniques for performing in-depth genealogical research as well as beneficial methods for integrating them into in your research sessions.

Create a Chronological Table

This is a significant step because it supplies chronicled circumstances of your ancestor’s life. It details important events that took place during the particular era that your ancestor lived. It may also lead you to other records that may be in existence. Creating a chronological table is fairly easy to do. You can use PC software or you can hand draw one. The information you would need to add to the table would consist of major life events such as wars, depressions, establishment of a town or city, founding of religious buildings (church, synagogue, mosque etc) and other significant occurrences. This would more readily produce further documentation i.e. birth, death, marriage certificates. A good historical information site to help with your search is the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress which can be found at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

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