Read Step 2 of the series. Few hobbies anywhere offer the reward of genealogy. The people who start their family history soon find themselves on a journey of discovery that takes them to places they never before imagined-including visits to their family's homeland and learning who they really were. So walk with us along this road to discovery, and meet some of your ancestors as we travel.
Every journey begins with a single step.
The first step in doing genealogy is to begin with yourself. Think of your genealogy as a collection of individuals, one of whom is you, and each of whom has had a series of easily identified life events. These events include the obvious such as birth, christening, education, marriage, military service, employment, death, and burial. They are important enough to us that we usually have some record or evidence of their existence. This is the stuff that genealogy is made of.