Terry Punch : When Do You Stop Tracing Your Family Tree ?
September 11, 2009 2:32 PM
- A relative too far : how to recognize that it's time to wind up your research into the family tree
Your parents. Your brothers and sisters. Your uncles and aunts and their children. Your grandparents and all their siblings and relations. You're connected to a mass of humanity through blood ties. And when you begin to research your family tree, you embark on an impossible journey : at some point, there will simply be no map linking you to some distant ancestor. But that reality doesn't stop some people from their rather obsessive journey.
Genealogist Terry Punch shared his thoughts on how to rein in your research so that you can use it in a way that benefits others.
Terry's just brought out the 3rd volume of "Erin's Sons : Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853". He answered questions about tracing your roots.
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