Ask family members to help you gather names of family, birth places, burial places, and other information.
Go to the library to find books and other resources on the family that you know.
Check out online resources pages to help continue your search.
Search courthouse records.
Search the US Census. Type your search term followed by site:.gov This will give you a direct link to this census for information and will limit a search result to government sites only.Example: 1940 census site:.gov
