Being a family historian

I am a big fan of collecting my family history! Genealogy is a fun hobby to get into and you can go about it in so many ways. There are plenty of free resources out there (my library was a helpful place to start). Ancestry, Family Search/Tree, Find a Grave, Facebook forums, MyHeritage, and Antenati. Some of these are crowd sourced, so don’t accept all of the hints and always do your own research from various sources (birth records, marriage certificates, military enlistments, immigration papers, census, etc). I also reccomend staying organized. If you print off photos, write who is in the picture and what year it was taken, so your future relatives will have the info. It’s also fun to dig up unknown family drama