Dear Reader,
Are you researching and/or writing family history? Created a family tree? What sources are you using—Ancestry, Family Tree, Find My Past, and/or My Heritage? Have you interviewed family members, neighbors, and friends? How do newspapers, periodicals, correspondence, and family pictures factor into your research?
All of the aforementioned are excellent sources for gathering information for family history projects. There are others that should be added as additional sources, what I call “The Trinity Of Family History— the Bible, Cemeteries, and Obituaries are also perfect repositories of information to use in writing family history, building a family tree.
The Bible and Cemeteries
Information from the family bible contributed much information to my manuscript, “1243-45: The Williams Family History.” My ancestors were diligent in recording births, deaths, and marriages in the bible. Yet, some names listed in the bible are missing from our three family plots in Historic Cedar Grove Cemetery (CGC), Augusta, GA.
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