Build your family tree

Who are we, where did we come from? Who were our ancestors, what did they do for a living, how did they live?

These are questions that many people ask themselves in the course of their lives, sometimes rhetorical questions, sometimes questions that the questioner wants to find the answer to. This book offers help in the search for answers not only to beginning genealogists, but to anyone interested in family history and history in general. The book explains the basic procedures and concepts used in genealogy, and includes descriptions of sources found directly in archives, as well as materials available on the Internet.

Thanks to her experience in searching for her own ancestors, the author presents in a readable form what it means to compile a family tree and write a family chronicle. Using concrete examples, he shows the reader how to proceed in the search for family roots, what pitfalls await him in his research and how to overcome them.