Records and Where to Find Them

Submitted by: HOST GFS Susi@aol.com

 

Records are everywhere, and they are many things. Photographs are records of people, events and places. IF dated they are of times also. Letters are records. Letters sent to family member, are records that list family personal history. If you write a letter, your documenting history of sorts, even if just family history.

I love to watch "IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK " on HGTV, they are forever finding things in attics, and crawl spaces and in between walls. Sometimes they even find hidden rooms full of items families had completely forgotten.

To be real honest there are more than one good program on that channel that is genealogical in nature without ever calling it genealogy. The History Channel also has good programs that many times will spout off names of whom ever is related to whom they are talking about. In other words, they are making the programs more genealogical without saying they are genealogical.

Libraries have many resources to explore. Ever look at a WHO's WHO book in the library. They are in the Reference section, not the History section and not the Genealogical section either. The Reference section of library has much genealogical research works.

Believe it or not records are everywhere and in many forms. Do not overlook a record, not realizing it is a record.

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