Research Assistance

Research

Starting Out

Includes 1 hour email or telephone assistance to answer your questions. We will provide information and advise you how to proceed further with your family research.

Check and Verify

Includes 1 hour email or telephone assistance to answer your questions about information that you have so far and advise you how to verify your information.

Brickwalls

Includes 1 hour email or telephone assistance to answer your questions. We will provide information and advise you how to break through the barriers in your research.

Finding Descendants and Missing Persons

Includes 1 hour email or telephone assistance to answer your questions. We will provide information on how to find other descendants, people who you may have lost contact with or went missing in your family.

Contact Us with as much information as possible relating to your inquiry. Please include all information you may have on relevant birth, death and marriage certificates.

Whether you're just starting out or you've been on the track for a while, it's great to have someone with you to share your successes and challenges!

Get started on your family research today!

The Family Researcher's Check List

CURIOSITY IS A PREREQUISITE! WHO, WHEN, WHERE, HOW AND WHY?

THINK OUTSIDE OF THE SQUARE!

IT'S OK TO BE WRONG! BETTER TO REACH A DEAD END THAN NO END AT ALL!

RECORD EVERYTHING!

ASK QUESTIONS WHILE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE!
Start talking with and writing to all your known family.

DON'T IGNORE FAMILY TALES
There's usually some fact in them somewhere.
Do be careful though not to accept them as 100% truth, particularly claims to Royalty!

ALWAYS ASK 'WHO STATED WHAT'?
Don't believe everything you hear and read!

THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATION IS VITAL!
It's just as important to record negative or questionable information as well as confirmed information.

CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK EVERYTHING!

INVESTIGATE EVERYONE'S BIRTH, MARRIAGE & DEATH
Sometimes vital information is missing for a person on one certificate.
ALL certificates are needed to evaluate information.
Informants didn't always know everything (and sometimes they didn't record the facts)!

NAMES & NAME CHANGES!
Be alert! Not everyone is recorded with their correct name!
Aliases and incorrect names on certificates abound!

NEVER GIVE UP!
There's always someone at I Descend to help!