It is a science dedicated to the study of the ancestors and descendants of a family. Genealogy comes from the Greek "genos" which means descent or birth and "logos" which means science. Such study grants the knowledge of the participation of an individual in a wide family group, related to blood. This science demonstrates through studies the essence or identity of a person, its root and its origins.
There are many people around the world interested in knowing where they come from, resorting to genealogical studies that not only reveal their ancestors but also the blood ties with other family lines and the origin of these. Many times the information offered is unexpected, some pleasant, some not. Today genealogy is not considered a really important or central science, many years ago they were. In ancient times when lineage and inheritance were life and death, for example in the Middle Ages, monarchical forms of government that supposed limited access were organized to coldly calculated inheritances, now in the current era and with the arrival of the Internet, you can find a mine of resources, such as personal pages of geneanauts, associations, databases, help forums etc. that can help to know and verify the lineage to which that person belongs.
Today this study can be done individually without paying any amount of money to third parties, which can even scam you with false information. If it is pleasant to do it on your own, it is best to collect the greatest amount of background information through various sources such as oral sources, which are obtained from another person, generally from the family nucleus, parents, grandparents, uncles, cousins, great-grandparents, etc. Since these sources are nourished by family history from different points of view that can offer you extra information or even relate one blind spot to another, although some dates may be inaccurate, the places of origin can be discovered and from there. Documentaries can be found by any written medium, whether printed or handwritten. Sometimes oral research exhausts all resources in terms of family memory, so that,the corroboration of verbal information can be supported or expanded with written material and records, for example:
- Birth certificates.
- Marriage certificates.
- Divorce certificates.
- Death certificates.
- Library archives.
- Identification records.
