Though young people are quite often accused of inability to value family values, today attempts to restore a family tree more often are resumed. They encounter a number of the difficulties caused by instability of the last century: The Great Patriotic War destroyed many archives, fouled the trail and tore off a set of lives.
Instruction
1. Begin with poll of all the relatives, especially elderly. Be not afraid to seem persuasive - grandmothers hoary with age and grandfathers with pleasure will plunge into memories of the youth. However, you should listen carefully then to compare and analyze the obtained information: the received data are not always exact, something is forgotten, something gets new sounding. However this step has to become your starting point, having set the direction of search.
2. Resort to experts who professionally are engaged in drawing up a family tree. You will smear to try to make everything independently, but it is better to work with them: for experts doors of archives open easier, can provide them that information which will remain inaccessible for you.
3. Sort family documents, you for certain will find letters or receipts in which mentions of any given surnames of the people who are your relatives will occur in them.
4. Look for information in libraries: whether met before a mention of people your surname (surname of grandmothers, great-grandmothers)? When and where it occurred whether the general roots connect you? In order that search was not chaotic, but directed, and it is necessary to have a talk previously with the relatives. They will help you to understand where more likely there could live your ancestors, than be engaged.
5. Use services of the large genealogical websites which allow to learn the maximum quantity of information and to find the relatives about whom you could even not suspect. Some of them represent free databases, others are commercial projects. Pay attention that for search of obtaining information about those who were involved in wars there are separate thematic websites. Also some resources facilitate a problem of drawing up the most patrimonial tree, allowing to make it with their help.