| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
If your genealogy goal is to identify all your ancestors for the past 10 generations, you'll need to find hundreds of people. I have a few family lines traced back that far and these ancestors were born in the 1750s well before the American Revolution. If they had all lived in the same village my ancestors could have been the playmates of Marie Antoinette (b. 1755), Mozart (b. 1756), Robert Burns (b. 1759), and Alexander Hamilton (b. 1755).
How does one keep track of the research for that many people over the span of three centuries? Genealogy research advice like “start with yourself and work backwards” seems woefully inadequate.
The first step in your quest to reach the 18th century is to ask good research questions. Our digital editor, Melina Papadopoulos provides a guide to asking who/what, when, where and how questions that will guide your research back generation by generation.
You will want to track your findings in a research log. Kerry Scott details six items to keep in your log, including source citations. If “source citations details” makes you want hide where no one can find you, join us for today’s immersive course, Cite it Right, at 3pm Eastern.
You don’t have to trace your ancestors to the 18th century to honor them. You can find inspiration for artistic craft projects to celebrate your ancestors with five projects from the family of Sunny Jane Morton.
Imagining Marie, Wolfie, Rabbie, and Alex with a box of crayons,
— Amanda, eLearning Producer of Family Tree University
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