Tracing Your Family History Takes Time, Effort and Money
Tracing your family tree is easier than ever, thanks to personal computers and the Internet, but it’s still not as easy as TV shows and commercials for genealogical organizations lead you to believe.“You see those TV commercials for ancestry and it’s click! click! click! and instant information. It’s not that easy,” Lyn Meehan, a professional genealogist, says.
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Very true on the inaccuracies of "genealogies" viewed at some pay for sites. I have been tracing a line of family, that when I started digging through "official records", in no way matched what anyone else was publishing online. Mistakes get passed along from these, so verify, verify, verify. I just use the data viewed for possible leads on where to look, to sort out the data from 3 or more persons with the same names, whose data has all been consolidated into 1 person. Turned out to be fun, myth busting!