Reconstructing Your Ancestral Family

Just as a builder uses several different types of building materials to erect a building, researchers must use several different record groups to build a complete ancestral family structure or to reconstruct their family history.

In the previous lesson, we likened record groups to different types of building materials such as cement, wooden beams, particle-board siding, asphalt, shingles, etc., etc. The building materials for genealogy and family history research are the various record groups which have been created over the years.