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However old you are, the very best way to start research is by writing down your own essential details, which are:

Date and place of birth

Your education, occupations and where you have lived

Religious denomination

Anything interesting about yourself, which future generations may be glad you took the trouble to record

Date and place of marriage, and to whom (if applicable)

Date and place of children’s births and marriages (if applicable)

Then repeat the same process for your siblings, parents, their siblings, your grandparents and so on, adding details of when and where people died, if applicable.

One of the key elements here is write it all down because all this work will be to little avail if you do not record your findings.

Besides information on the living, you will soon start to record information on the deceased, as recalled by their children, grandchildren and so on. This is oral history – things known from memory rather than written records.