Getting Help with Your Line

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What is needed from you:

Places: County, State
Dates of Events: Birth, marriage, death, other
Censuses you have searched
Records you have found
Certificates you have sent for: Birth, Death, Marriage

We can't help you with contemporary research (present to 1900) unless someone else has previously contacted us with that information. If you are searching for people in 1950, 1960, 1980 for example, you need to send for a death certificate. You will have to order those certificates and pay a small fee from the state where the event occurred.

It's good to remember that all genealogy is done by going BACK IN TIME ONE STEP AT A TIME, reproving all the way. You begin with yourself, then find information on your parents, then grandparents, etc., each time finding birth, marriage, death certificates.

To remember:

• Just because it is on the internet does not make it true (unless you see a scanned image and can interpret what you see yourself)
  
• Just because it's in print in a library doesn't make it true, reverify what you see
  
• County history books are notorious for errors
  
• Family history books are notorious for errors
  
• FamilyTreeMaker and other free genealogy websites are notorious for errors, author often did not do the genealogy; these site authors often called "name collectors" in genealogy. Beware.
  
• There is a genealogy etiquette and standards that the better researchers follow
  
• The best information comes from people researching in libraries and the actual records
  

Jack Chamblee - Alabama research
Anne Chamlee - CHAMLEE spellings, SC and GA research
D'Ann Stoddard - NC and early Chamblee research, other states, access the Chamblee database, this site

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