How to Find Family Information
As your family tree grows, you'll often find that you're missing important family information. Almost all of this information is available to you if you go to the correct place to look for it. And, to make things even easier, there's usually more than one place to find everything that you are looking for. You just have to choose the best and easiest route for you. That's what this section of the "How-To" Guide helps you to do. It tells you what sources, such as census records, contain the information you are looking for and what you need to do to obtain those sources. So, what type of information do you want to find?
- Finding the country and city of origin
- Birth date
- Birthplace
- Death date
- Place of death
- Burial place
- Marriage date
- Marriage place
- Maiden name
- Names of children
- Names of parents
- Name of spouse
- Divorce or marital status
- Age of individual
- Country, town, or parish of foreign birth
- Date of arrival into the United States
- Naturalization date
- Name of ship
- Port of entry
- Port of exit
- U.S. military service record
- Places the family has lived
- Names of living relatives
- Address and phone of living relatives
- Adoption Information
- Religion
- Ethnic background
- Previous research about the family
- Family activities
