{"id":265,"date":"2009-08-06T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:53:02","slug":"i-am-looking-for-my-family-tree-can-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/i-am-looking-for-my-family-tree-can-you.html","title":{"rendered":"I am looking for my family tree. Can you tell me how to find it in GenealogyBank?"},"content":{"rendered":"

GenealogyBank<\/a> – is an online library of resources – millions of them. Like a library it has an index – in our case an index on every word making it easy to find references in each of the issues of the newspapers, books etc. It has over 1 billion names. <\/strong><\/span>
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\n(<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>Illustration: Wikipedia Commons<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\"Photo:<\/a>
\nDocumenting your family tree is a lot like putting up the family Christmas tree. You have the bare tree and now you need to look in the boxes of Christmas decorations and put up each one. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It takes time to pick out and put the items in just the right place on the tree – but when you’re done – wow – it always looks great.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So – let’s get started on putting together your “family tree”.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What do you know about the family?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Who are you looking for?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For example – what are your grandparents or great-grandparent’s names?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When and where were the born? <\/strong><\/span>
\nWhen, where were they married?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So – you’ll see who you are looking for and with the when\/where of their birth, marriage and death – you can decide where in GenealogyBank will I be likely to find that information.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If they died in say, 1982 – then look in the Social Security Death Index and in the America’s Obituaries section.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If they served in the Revolutionary War – then we’ll look in the early newspapers for articles and in the Revolutionary War Grave Index in the “Historical Documents” section.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tell me more about your family and we’ll start researching in GenealogyBank to discover the original sources that document their lives. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Taking the time to gather together the facts to document your family tree is worth it – just like it is to take the time to put together the family Christmas tree each year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We can do this.<\/strong><\/span>
\nTell me more about your family.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GenealogyBank – is an online library of resources – millions of them. Like a library it has an index – in our case an index on every word making it easy to find references in each of the issues of the newspapers, books etc. It has over 1 billion names. (Illustration: Wikipedia Commons) Documenting your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1076,4,5,45,5302,1129,1656,1661,427,431,1674,1829,584,585,22,1734,1874,27,1084,1929,1847,441,844,1795,442,1069],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-america","tag-birth","tag-books","tag-christmas","tag-death","tag-family","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-georgia","tag-historical-documents","tag-id","tag-in","tag-james-jewett","tag-margaret-jerome","tag-marriage","tag-me","tag-ms","tag-newspapers","tag-obituaries","tag-or","tag-resources","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-social-security","tag-social-security-death-index","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99909,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/99909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}