Today researching your family tree has become a fascination with more people than ever before, and maybe this is because of how easy family tree creation has become.
Before, it took a lot of time, effort and money to be able to find out who was in your family and what their lives were like.
You had to travel so that you could talk to people, you had a limited means of recording what you found out and there was no way that far off relatives could ever connect.
These days, it is much easier to get started and the resources that you need to access are more readily available.
Technology has made it easier too.
There are huge databases that exist on the web today that will give you names of your relatives and where they lived or what they did.
All you need to do is have a few names and once you start your search on the internet using these names, you will find that you are able to compose a pretty good picture of what your family looked like before.
A name will lead to more and more names that will lead to even more names.
There are lots of family tree creation resources available on the internet, and that has also made things much easier.
You will find a lot of software, both free and for sale, which you can use.
Most of this software will be highly advanced so that it offers you different features that you can use to make your family tree accommodate much more detail.
Better yet is that today it's so much easier to share information.
If you know relatives who are thousands of miles away but you think they may know something that you don't, all you need to do is drop them an email and explain your quest.
In most cases, they will be willing to co-operate to give you the information that you need.
This type of sharing of information by families is adding to the bank of family tree archives and making it more and more easy to find your family tree online.
Features like Google Maps have eliminated the need to travel to see where your relatives lived, unless you want to get a feel of what their lives were like.
You can now travel online and get as close as the street and the house where Great Grandpa lived without having to leave your desk.
You may be wondering why you should take all this trouble researching your family tree and your genealogy.
It's worth every moment.
You are making something that tells you who you are, and you can keep it for generations to come.
You are scripting the story of your family.
A great many stories have been written by people who simply started out with tracing a family's history! As they did it, they discovered great secrets and events in their family that they then went ahead and published.
Even better is that the people who come after you will not have to recreate so much - they will find that you already provided most of the information.
Researching your family tree and looking at your genealogy is a tribute to those past.
You want to know who they were and how they lived.
How they influenced the life that you live today.
It is worth spending time and money on; in a sense, it will become an invaluable asset.