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The Family Detective will help you find your roots
Have you always wondered if the story about your American Indian heritage is true? Or perhaps there is another mystery in your family that you would like solved.
Do you know when your immigrant ancestors arrived in the United States? Did they become citizens after arriving in America? How did the Civil War affect your ancestors, and did anyone homestead or cross the plains in a covered wagon?
What is your family's health history? Is there a pattern of alcoholism, heart disease, or diabetes?
The Family Detective will find the answers! No matter how large or small the task, or where your ancestors lived within the United States, we can help. We research your family back to the immigrant. Once the immigrant has been identified with date of arrival and place of birth, and you want to continue the project, we sub-contract with a specialist in the place of origin who knows the language and records.
All projects include:
- Review and analysis of information provided by client
- Development of research plan
- Research (includes Internet research and/or onsite research)
- Report (includes details of negative and positive results)
- Analysis and recommendation for future research
- Photocopies, certified copies, transcriptions, or abstracts of documents
Services Include:
Census Study -
The first step in genealogical research is to locate your family in all possible census schedules. The census (1790-1930 in the U.S.) provides extensive information that will help in future research. Questions vary by year, but generally give the following information: names of family members and neighbors, ages, race, places of birth, occupation, land ownership, military service, attendance in school, year of immigration, and citizenship status. A census study of your family includes photocopies of each handwritten census page, summary of data gathered, and recommendations for further research.
Health History - The focus of a genealogical project can be gathering health history information from family interviews, death certificates, obituaries, mortality census schedules, military records, and longevity statistics.
Project Management - Genealogical projects quickly expand and require oversight. The research often leads to several different locations and although there is a great deal of information on the Internet, thorough research still requires onsite research. We have a network of professional genealogists who will visit local courthouses and archives where your ancestors resided and report the results to the Family Detective. We process the documents, enter the data into a genealogy program, analyze the results, and prepare a research plan to continue. Throughout this process, the client is kept informed on progress and authorizes blocks of time and sets research goals.
Find Your Cousins -
The Family Detective will help you find your long-lost cousins to:
- Locate family heirlooms and photographs
- Solve brickwall research problems
- Provide a complete and accurate genealogy
- Update family history, locating all descendants
- Identify persons for DNA testing
- Be fun! Are you related to anyone famous?
Use the Family Detective Cousin Chart to determine your relationship to distant family members!
Organization -
Are you drowning in paperwork, or have boxes of family documents and photographs that need sorting and organizing? This is a specialty of the Family Detective! Imagine the pleasure of seeing your boxes of disorganized items turned into a beautiful heritage album with accompanying charts that can be displayed for the family to enjoy.
Data Entry -
The task of entering family data into a genealogy computer program can be overwhelming. Let the Family Detective do it for you!
Specific Short-Term Goal -
Do you simply want to know the maiden name of your grandmother? Or perhaps you want to figure out if your grandparents were full-blood Italian. The Family Detective can help you get answers in a short period of time.
Consultation -
Have you been researching your family tree and running into brick walls, but still want to do it yourself? The Family Detective will review your work and advise you on new research strategies.
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