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Resources for Genealogists

 

As a genealogist, you need to have the foresight, or willingness at least to search for help from other genealogists with longer experience than your own, to use resources in order to discover materials or even use repositories to find the information for your family history, or for a client you are working to learn more about a targeted ancestor, or relative. 

While the required repository will depend on the location you are needing to find information for about a relative or ancestor, there are a couple of repositories you can start with. These repositories are Family Search and Ancestry.com. You may need to pay for services in order to conduct premium-level research, but you will find it easier to conduct research online if the fear of paying for subscriptions isn't becoming an obstacle. 

When Family Search and Ancestry.com fail to provide the resources you need to answer a research question as a genealogist, you may need to use lesser-known repositories. Some of these repositories are out of the way, and not always known at first by the average person. As one resource, Cyndi's List can provide a start-up list for certain types of resources you may need to take hours to find on your own. But do keep in mind, certain links on Cyndi's List may no longer be active. As a genealogist student in a college course, I discovered that issue on some occasions.  

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