Photo: 1825 Land Survey Record, Hampshire County, VA
Genealogy is the study of your ancestors. It uses a wide variety of sources:
- Family information such as photos, stories, and personal recollections
- Records, such as birth, death, and marriage, church, census, military, deeds, wills, estates records
- Family histories and historical books on cities, towns and counties and other resources
can be further supported, disproven, or extended through genetic genealogy (DNA) testing
Genealogy can trace the lineages of individuals and provides essential information to ground personal and family histories.