How to Discover Your Family Roots

Start with the family

The richest source is your living relatives. Ask your parents and grandparents about their ancestors, the places, the occupations, and the family stories. Write it down, because memory leaves along with people.

Study the documents and photos

Certificates, letters, captions on the backs of photographs, and address books all hold names and dates. Gather them together, for it is often the small details that link the generations.

Organize your findings

Enter what you find into a family tree so that nothing is lost and you can see the connections. In Pomni each ancestor becomes a memory page, and the tree shows clearly who is related to whom.

Share and add to it

Bring in your relatives: each one holds a piece of the story. A shared search goes faster, and the genealogy turns out fuller and more accurate.

• Ask your living relatives.
• Study documents and old photos.
• Enter your findings into the tree.
• Search together with your relatives.