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Originally posted by Ideal08
The lineage thing. Where do you begin????? *sigh* Alex Haley spent his life researching for Roots, right. I don't have that kind of time.  I don't know what to do. Has anyone ever done this? Hook a sista up with how to get started.
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Ideal, several years ago my aunt (maternal) started to research our family’s history. She first started with oral interviews with every family member 75+ years. She made sure that they were of sound mind. By my maternal family being majority (if not all) Catholic it was not hard to search the church records on the dates for births, marriages, deaths, baptisms, etc. She’s still researching and has so far traced us all the way back to the West Indies. It takes a lot of time and money but she says it’s worth it. She lives by the quote of Joseph Lauvie “If you don’t know where you come from, its difficult to access where you are. Its even more difficult to plan where you are going.”