Family history expert Laura Berry shares her tips on how to continue with starting a family tree. To read the entire article hit here
Once you’ve started a family tree with the family members you know, you can search for their birth, marriage and death records via where they may be held, such as State, County or Town records depending on the time period of when they started collecting and being the keeper of the records. (this article was written for a British audience) It is being paraphrase to a North American audience.
Certificates are vitally important for building your family tree and proving the connections between each person... Birth certificate (may) include the mother’s maiden name...which makes it easier to pinpoint the right birth
If you’ve found a marriage certificate (which will confirm the ages of the bride and groom and names of their fathers), the next step is to look for birth certificates for the happy couple...
death certificates are not as informative as birth and marriage certificates but can still be helpful, particularly for researching older generations...
A death certificate confirms the deceased’s age, and from 1969 exact dates of birth are given. The informant was usually a relative and their details can be useful for confirming suspected links in your tree. Death certificates will also detail the cause of death, which might be of interest.
Birth, marriage and death certificates also provide home addresses, which might help to locate your family in other records
