Re: New At This

["Spirit One Email" <laurel@spiritone.com>]

Dear Bogie,
    Unless a miracle happens and someone recognizes your people right away,
I am afraid you will need to do some work on your own to get your line back
a few more generations where the odds increase then to connect with someone
else.
   First of all have you contacted every single person of an earlier
generation and anybody can possibly think of?  They may have the only key to
your family but if you procrastinate until they die, your key will be gone
completely.   The most important first step is to make sure that you have
researched all the living people first.   Often people might not have what
you want but always ask them whether they know of someone else that might or
someone else who is working on the family tree.  You could really be
surprised that someone has done some of this already.
    Your grandmother's death certificate should tell you a lot of things,
birth, place of birth, parents, husband, etc.  The 1920 census for ? county
in NY will give you a lot of information.  Contact the Clan genealogist at
www.clansinclairusa.org because he specializes in helping people get
started.
Laurel


----- Original Message -----
From: <bogie@csiway.com>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: New At This


> I am just begining my research and and need all the help and advise out
there. My maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Sinclair. Her husband was David
Bernard Blackwell and they had 3 children:Arthur(who died as an
infant),Alice Mae and my mother Beatrice Elizabeth. My grandmother died when
my mother was 2 or 3yrs. old, about 1926-1927 in Lake Placid,N.Y. That's all
the info I have.
>
>
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