Your local library can also offer innumerable tools as you look into your family’s past. Books on names, histories of ancestral places, catalogues of heraldic symbols, and many other tomes at the library can all help in your quest. In addition, many libraries offer access to the single greatest tool in this work...
The internet is immensely useful for providing much of the individualized information you seek. Either at home or at the library, you are encouraged to look up “genealogy,” along with your family name, perhaps the country of your family’s origin, and other searches to get a feel for the information that will be available to you.
The single greatest genealogical resource in the world is available through the website for the Mormon Church (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). You can access this information, based on their decades spent attempting to build a universal genealogical chart, at www.familysearch.org.
AUTHOR: Matthew S. McGowan
MORE INFO: Excerpted from "Genealogy and Heraldry: Discovering Your Past"
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