The Family Research Meeting Place

I Descend is the place to meet and identify with other descendants who are researching your family. We provide Family Research Assistance and a service where you Publish your family history information on this high ranking website. You have the opportunity to connect with other family members, exchange information, discuss challenges and successes and encourage each other in the common goal to tell the story of your ancestors. Locating and contacting descendants is fun and exciting! We share the same enthusiasm in completing our family history and we have the opportunity to communicate with other family members, sometimes for the first time.

By accessing information from other descendants we can share information, confirm facts, gain additional information and discover new leads.

Ancestors can be elusive! They did all sorts of unexpected things that can make tracking them down a difficult task! Together, descendants provide a wealth of information for the benefit of all making the process of researching our ancestors much easier. We can work together to build a more factual family history than if we attempted it on our own.

Family Research Assistance

This site has been produced for your benefit:

• Publish your Family History information for others to find on this well ranking website
• Update or change the information on your Family History webpage for FREE at any time!
• Request assistance to find other descendants or missing information in your Family History
• Contribute additional information to other Family Histories on this site
• Research advice is available including assistance in locating descendants
• Assistance is available to get you started with your Family History

From Genealogy to Family History

Genealogy is a record or table of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors.
Family History is the study of the life of our ancestors.

Most of us start out tracing our ancestors as a fun hobby. Collecting names and dates is an exciting place to start for the budding family researcher!

A little way down the track, though, we desire for these names and dates on a page to come to life! We start searching for information and want to learn more about our ancestors - their lives, the locations and times in which they lived, their occupations and professions, their hardships and achievements, their pioneering spirit, their successes and their grief. We want to gain more understanding about them. We don't want them to stay just as names on a page for future generations to look at.

We start with recording Genealogy and finish with our Family History.

We are literally putting flesh on the bones of our ancestors, bringing them to life. This is history of the most intriguing kind! We begin to study their historical circumstaces. What REALLY happened back then? We become a detective investigating every minor detail to find the evidence that we need to build the lives of our ancestors. Historical events come to life along with the lives of our ancestors to enable us to eventually tell the complete story about them.