Everyone has their own reason for studying the history of the family, but whatever these reasons may be, the questions always arise: "Where do I need to start? How can I get my own pedigree?" Let us dwell on the key points that you need to pay attention to if you want to compose your family tree.
Instruction manual
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Decide whether you will independently compose a family tree or whether you will resort to the help of specialists.
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If you decide to independently study the history of your family, get ready for the following difficulties: you will need to not only interview your relatives yourself, but also to independently work in the archives and, accordingly, analyze the data and fill out all the collected materials. This is a painstaking and meticulous work, requiring a lot of time and patience.
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You will not encounter these problems if you decide to contact specialists. But you will run into financial issues. The services of firms and private genealogies are not cheap. In addition, there is a chance to run into scammers.
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Try using the mixed way of compiling a family tree. In this case, you will collect available information and turn to the services of specialists only to find inaccessible, but necessary data. In the final design of the genealogical tree, you use your own resources, or again, contact the experts.
This method is good because specialists will be able to work with those materials that you cannot work with, for various reasons, for example, you do not have time or archives are located at a great distance. And genealogy services will cost less, since you yourself will get most of the information.
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Whichever method you choose, remember that compiling a family tree is a very difficult and costly affair. Even if you don’t pay for the work of a specialist, but start collecting information yourself, get ready to part with the money, because all archives respond to genealogical requests in the order of performing paid services.
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