My great-grandparents would marvel at how easily genealogy research can be done today with the click of a mouse! Information that used to take years of research to discover now is found so quickly. In days gone by information was verbally passed down from generation to generation relying solely on memory. When keeping records through writing evolved, myths were some of the first things recorded and stored on these written documents. Ancient ancestors believed they were children of gods and their family history was born out of a myth. The earliest genealogy research records are myths.
Genealogy Research and The Bible
Old Family Bible
One of the more famous bits of genealogy research perhaps is written in the Bible. “So and So begat So and So who lived to be 480 and begat So and So….” The famous passages from Genesis and the Gospel are often referred to as “The Begats.” The Bible is often looked at as the genealogy research record of Jesus. Nearly all the Old Testament characters are somehow related to Jesus.
In wondering why our ancient ancestors bothered with keeping genealogies it more than likely was due to squabbles over inheritances In the times when the King James Bible was comprised (1611) this would have especially been an issue of contention while countries were under divine right monarchies. In these times people who hoped to have a chance at all of owning property or holding a title needed to prove they were related to the recently deceased owner of said property or title.
The 1900′s
My Aunt Ruth use to take me on family history research trips with her in the mid 1960s. In those days it was not possible to do any type of substantial genealogy research unless you traveled physically to the place that your ancestors had lived and died. Their lives were traced through dusty, faded and quite often illegibly scribbled notes on yellowed, brittle pages in the halls of public records in the town that you thought your ancestors may have once lived in as you searched for any trace of them and their lives.
In the past two of the very best resources of genealogy research were cemeteries and family Bibles. Our ancestors would record all the important family information in the blank pages of their family Bible and pass this book down through the generations. Family Bibles are gems to genealogists as they were recorded by the very people they’re researching.
The next best resource was a cemetery headstone. It was common genealogy research practice to hold a piece of paper over the headstone and rub it with a pencil to more easily read the information and take it back home where it could be added to the other bits of manually gathered research data.
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