On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:35 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > HOWDY Cousins & HAPPY NEW YEAR, > > The Most Important Steps in Family Research; > > #- 1 Name. > > #- 2 Date/Month/ Year > > #- 3 Place/ Town/County State > > #- 4 Nick Name IF you Have it & Jr. or SR. > > # - 5 Birth & Death Date if Possible > > With all or What part of this Information that one has will enable > Someone to help. Without Some of these Points you may as look out your Back Door & > ask the birds for the information . This may not be the way MOST Cousins would > PUT it BUT__________? Just how would any one answer the fore going. Please > Think & Add what you/we Have abt the Ancestor or relative. NOW lets Hope for a > very Interesting & Fruitful Cousin Counting Year. CUZ A T & Leona < > [email protected]> > Yes, these are important but when searching for Johnson's I'd add a few more. 6. Name of spouse. 7. Names of siblings. 8. Names of children We need these because for every David Johnson or John Johnson there are at least a dozen more not related to the David or John we search. And probably more George W., and Ben F. and William. Far too many sources (census before 1850 and wills) don't show names of spouses, siblings, and children so we can't tell who the named person relates to. -- Gerald Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer