10 Tips from 20 Years of Online Family History Research

Orin Hargraves
Sep 3, 2018 · 7 min read
My aunt (Happy), my dad (Orin), and my uncle (Ed), with other children.

I was hooked on genealogy the first time I found an ancestor’s record on a microfilm of the 1860 census. That was on a visit to a regional office of the National Archives, sometime in the 1970s. It’s a whole lot easier now, and that’s a good thing, because once you start researching your family tree, you will never come to the end of it. But you’ll learn something new every day and you’ll make…

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