� Where to Begin?

� What is the Question?

� Why You Can't Find Them

� What's in a Name?

� Adoption Records

�  Birth Records

�  Census Records: (plus U.S.A.

Soundexes, Indexes and Finding Aids)

� Church Records

� City Directories

� Court Records

� Death, Tombstones and Cemeteries

� Evidence, Sources and Citation

� Fraternal Organizations

� GEDCOMs

� Heraldry/Coats of Arms

� Immigrants Records

� Land Records (U.S.A.)

� Marriage Records

� Military Records (U.S.A.)

� Military Records (worldwide)

� Naturalization Records

� Newspapers

� Orphans

�  SSDI (Social Security Death Index) &

Railroad Retirement Board Records (U.S.A.)

� Ship Passenger Records

� Software for Genealogists

� Taxing Tales

� Using Technology

� Acadians

� African Americans

� Australians

� Austrians

� Belgians

� Canadians

� Croatians

� Czechs

� Danish

� Dutch

� English

� Finnish

� French

� French-Canadians

� Germans

� Hungarians

� Icelandics

� Irish

� Italians

� Jewish

� Liechtensteiners

� Luxembourgers

� Mexicans

� Native American

� New Zealand

� Norwegian

� Polish

� Portuguese

� Russians

�  Scots-Irish

� Scottish

� Slovakians

� Spanish

� South Africans

� Swedish

� Swiss

�  Unique Peoples

(Melungeon, Black Dutch, etc.)

� Welsh

 RootsWeb Guides to Tracing Family Trees were written & compiled by 

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