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How to Research Your Donauschwaben Family Tree
Vereinigung der Donauschwaben e. V. Trenton, NJ
- Organize what you already know about your family
Place this information on a Pedigree chart and family group sheet
Start with yourself and work back in time
- Decide what you want to learn or obtain about your family
Choose an ancestor
Identify a question (Born? Married? Died? Parents? etc.)
Who? Where? When?
- Select records to search
Where to search (Home, National Archives, LDS Family History Center,
County Courthouse, State Archives/Health Department, etc.)
Vital Records (Birth, marriage & death records)
Deeds, wills, naturalization, ship passenger list, passports,
obituaries, church/cemetery records, headstones
Heimat, Familien & Ortssippenbuchen (family town books)
Church records of Austria-Hungary (1826-1895 available from LDS)
Deutsch-Ungarischer Familien Kalender (German-Hungarian Family
Calendar magazines)
- Obtain & search these records
Transcribe the information
Photocopy the information
- Use this information
Evaluate this information
Copy new information onto your pedigree charts/family group sheets
Organize this new information & file these new records
Share this information with family members to preserve it
- Use a computer to aid you in your research and data storage
Consider using an Internet Service Provider
Consider obtaining a Genealogy program
- Reference Information
Where do I start? The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, 1993, #2(32916).
Useful genealogy links
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