Since your hooked :) and really want to find out where to start to look for your own dead people. Let me help you get started. You start with yourself and work backwards. I included several links of the top genealogy sites, to help you out if you are interested. Plus their are tons, of books on the subject, but the best one to get started with is 'The Genealogist's Companion and Sourcebook' and 'The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook' by Emily Anne Croom. She does a great job of breaking the information down and her workbook is full of all the necessary forms you will need to keep track of all the people you will find.
After you record your own information, you work on your parents and their siblings, then their parents and siblings, and so on. Until you end up with a room full of people. It will take over your office. But if you love researching, digging in courthouses, trekking through cemeteries and taking road trips to stand on ancestral lands. Than you'll love this hobby. Its a great way to learn about the lives of your ancestors, their trail and tribulations, their skeletons, how you came to be and how they really aren't so different than you. It can be a revealing and exciting journey.
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Cindy,
I am really into family. We use to have family reunions every other year. The really sad part is, that you do not end up with the older ones you start out with.
Keep digging up bones!
Eunice
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