Genealogy - Then and Now

Released on: February 28, 2008, 4:52 pm

Press Release Author: Publicrecords.com

Industry: Human Resources

Press Release Summary: Just a few years back, doing a family history research was
really a back-breaking and very time-consuming task. In the early days, family
history researchers had to search for information the hard way - the VERY hard way.
For example, genealogists back then had to do travel extensively and do an actual
visit to places where their ancestors lived and died before they could get any
information.

Press Release Body: Just a few years back, doing a family history research was
really a back-breaking and very time-consuming task. In the early days, family
history researchers had to search for information the hard way - the VERY hard way.
For example, genealogists back then had to do travel extensively and do an actual
visit to places where their ancestors lived and died before they could get any
information.

In addition, family history researchers also endured visiting a lot of different
public offices to access public records and get additional data about their
ancestors. Most of the time, it required them to search through what-seems-to-be
endless piles of dusty folders, rusty file cabinets and brittle public record pages.
Genealogy enthusiasts also frequented various cemeteries and got important dates by
rubbing tombstones. Normally, they visited such places with a pencil and a few
pieces of paper in hand.

Family Bibles were also valuable resources that turned up family history
information. It was common practice for family members to write significant family
information at the blank pages of the Bible such as names of family members, along
with important dates (birth dates, death dates, wedding dates, etc). These Bibles,
most of the time, were passed from generation to generation.

Other than that, family history researchers also tried to get information by writing
letters to far-flung relatives.
Needless to say, all the above-mentioned methods generally took long days before a
genealogist gets any pertinent information. Usually, genealogy information took a
lifetime before it is completed.
Thankfully, people who are interested in searching family history information
nowadays wouldn't have to settle for these methods. With the invention of the
computer (and the internet, in particular), family history information can now be
accessed a lot easier than before. And because the government has made public
records to be more accessible to the general public, the internet has a lot of
county, state, and federal databases that could generate useful information for your
research.

However, if you want to an even faster search, go visit PublicRecords.com. With a
powerful database of more than 2 billion US public records, PublicRecords.com is the
only site you would need to visit when trying to search family history information.
We have it all - from birth and death records, to marriage and divorce records, to
other public documents such as phone records, address records, business records,
criminal records, and many, many others.

Go use PublicRecords.com now and get that family tree filled up in no time!


Web Site: http://www.publicrecords.com

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