Grow Your Family Tree

 Check this following link from RootsTech presentation for a better understanding of the standards that have been set up for genealogical research.  Of course, no one is going to force you to use the standards but if you generally acknowledge them, then you are more likely to wish you had, down the road.

 https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/genealogicalproofstandardpart1/

Below is a chart a lot of folks refer to as they gather the information about their relatives:

Charts such as this can be found in many different locations on the Internet.  Can you search for them?!  OR, here's an idea:  Create your own chart!  One great place to start looking for genealogy-related web sites:  Cyndi's List! 

 Questions?   

 

 

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Question:  What can a photo reveal?  

1. Check out the Background.  What is hanging on the wall? (for example).  This photo is so old, I'm not sure about trying to define the large map or photo.  It is obviously blurry! Perhaps it is a map?! 

 

2.  I also don't know what the date is at the time of this photo.  I do know the identities of the people in the photo, or at least I think I have it straight!  The gentleman in the light blue or green long sleeved shirt is my Uncle Andy Winters.  Standing beside him is my biological father, Dewey Earnest/Ernest Winters (short sleeves striped shirt).  Note he is wearing glasses (as I have been doing since I was about 12 years old)!  Sitting on the couch are four females.  Left to right, my aunt,______; my grandmother, my Aunt Ludell (worked at police department in Jasper, Walker, Alabama...in blue jacket;