| On this page there are certain entries which give a genealogical researching tip e.g. "Remember something your grandfather told you about his father". Other entries include relationship strings denoting ancestors according to their relationship to you e.g. "Father's Mother". If you place your cursor overtop the relationship string, it should highlight in blue and become underlined, signifying that it is an active link. Click on the link and you will access a linked page on which you may enter data regarding that particular ancestor. By clicking on your browser's 'back' button, you will be returned to this page, and the relationship string will be changed to green. |
August 1
| Father's Father's Mother's Mother's Mother's Mother's Father |
August 2
| Father's Father's Mother's Mother's Mother's Mother's Mother |
August 3
| Check with the National Archives of your country for information on ancestral veterans. |
August 4
| Look through your parents' high school or college yearbooks. |
August 5
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Father's Father's Father |
August 6
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Father's Father's Mother |
August 7
| Ask your grandparents what games they played when they were young. |
August 8
| Learn the language of your ancestors so that you can understand foreign documents, such as birth and baptismal and death records. Not only will it help you to become closer to the ancestors, but you might be able to save some money on researchers fees. |
August 9
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Father's Mother's Father |
August 10
| Write down the saddest thing you remember about your father's parents. |
August 11
| Write down the saddest thing you remember about your mother's parents. |
August 12
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Father's Mother's Mother |
August 13
| Write down the happiest thing you remember about your father's parents. |
August 14
| Write down the happiest thing you remember about your mother's parents. |
August 15
| Find out why certain of your ancestors had particular nicknames. |
August 16
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Mother's Father's Father |
August 17
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Mother's Father's Mother |
August 18
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Mother's Mother's Father |
August 19
| Check the Naturalization Records of the county in which your immigrant ancestor settled. The information contained on Naturalization Records might provide clues to where the immigrant ancestor resided prior to leaving the motherland. Click on this icon to be taken to the website: Immigration Records, Naturalization Records & Oaths Of Allegiance, where you will find additional information on the subject of naturalization records. |
August 20
| Father's Mother's Father's Father's Mother's Mother's Mother |
August 21
| Collect photographs of all of your relatives for a visual genealogy. While you're at it, collect photographs of their houses and even the communities in which they live. |
August 22
| Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Father's Father's Father |
August 23
| Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Father's Father's Mother |
August 24
| Design your own pedigree chart to suit your needs ~ experiment with various layouts. The important thing is to do it by hand. It will be more valuable to you, as compared to one that has been produced by a computer program that someone else designed. |
August 25
| Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Father |
August 26
| If an ancestor, or other relative, of yours changed his or her name, find out the story behind that decision. In many cases, people would change their names because they had some sort of argument and 'falling out' with their kinfolk. And in most such cases, the name change involved only a letter or two. For example: In my mother's Nofsker family, one man changed the spelling of his name from Nofsker to Nophsker so that he could disassociate himself and his immediate family from his brothers and sisters with whom he had a disagreement. In some cases, though, a name change is an attempt to get back to the original. My brother-in-law changed his name from Troutman to Trautman in order to return the spelling from its 'Englished' version to the original German. Most people do not change their names simply on whim; it is too costly and requires too much effort to do so simply because you wake up one morning and think your name should be spelled differently. |
August 27
| Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Mother |
August 28
| Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Mother's Father's Father |
August 29
| Father's Mother's Father's Mother's Mother's Father's Mother |
August 30
| Make a list of direct-line ancestors who held public office of some kind. In America, county histories, produced especially through the mid to late-1800s are great sources for lists of holders of public office, and you might find an ancestor of your own in such a history book. |
August 31
| Check the Court of Quarter Sessions dockets in the local court house for ancestors' names. Another good source for records of your ancestors might be in the Constable Reports for your local district. [That's not to say that your ancestor(s) might have been in trouble with the law. If a person filed a complaint about a neighbor, both party's names will be found in the Reports maintained by the Constable.] Click on this icon to be taken to the website: Constable Reports, where you will find additional information on the subject of constables and the things on which they made reports. |
