A few genealogical goals involve working forward in time. (For instance, you may be planning a family reunion and want to trace all of the living descendants of a given ancestor.) But most genealogical goals start with yourself, your children, or grandchildren and work backward in time.

You may think that after you've bought your computer and installed your genealogical software, you should set the computer aside for a while and run off to interview your living relatives. Yet if you're starting with yourself, that would be premature. You should actually begin by entering your own information into the computer.

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