¿Cómo puedo emepezar mi historia familiar?

Here are a few steps to get you started on your family history and genealogy:

1. Get a four generation pedigree chart. Ancestry.com has a good one: http://c.ancestry.com/pdf/trees/charts/anchart.pdf and a couple Family Group Sheets: http://261.byu.edu/pdf/familygroupsheet.pdf

2. Call up the family and start filling them out
- be sure to keep track of where you get your information. For this Research Logs are amazing. There are innumerable versions of research logs. Find one that works for you! Here's a good one from BYU's Intro to Genealogy course: http://261.byu.edu/pdf/researchlog.pdf

3. Don't worry, people are generally excited to talk about what they know - and what do they know better than themselves and their family?


***Here are some things to focus on when trying to get to know your family:
Names - for women be sure to learn their maiden name (if known)
Dates - birth, marriage, death
Places
These three are key to doing further research and will help you determine if people you find in research are your ancestors or not.

Other things to ask about/consider:
Family traditions
Stories of ancestors
Local histories - what's going on in the area that may have effected the family?

Good Luck!