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Top Skills For A Successful Genealogy Research

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Rose Patterson
Top Skills For A Successful Genealogy Research

How do you begin a genealogical journey? Almost every newbie researcher faces the problem of having inadequate skills to carry out extensive research. To get better results from your research you must develop a set of skills. Once you master these skills, a whole new world of opportunities will open up. But the obvious problem is that people often don’t even know which skills they will need.

So we have prepared a list of top skills you need to develop to take your family genealogy research to the next level before creating your own ancestry chart using a family tree maker software.

Genealogy Research Requires Many Skills

  • Investigative Skills

Investigative skills are critical to successful research. One will have to analyze large amounts of data, sort it out and piece together the most difficult puzzles. Moreover, it’s critical for a researcher to maintain an investigative mindset and an enquiring mind to be able to keep discovering new details.

  • Analytical Skills

Besides that, you have to start treating history like professional historians do, being able to analyze dates and sequences in the context of that time period, as well as be good with maps.

  • Communication and Linguistic Skills

On top of that, you have to have excellent communication skills. And it’s not only to persuade reluctant or senior family members to share their memories and knowledge, just like real psychologists. But you might also find yourself in a position, where you need to deal with people from records centers. Requesting access or asking for an insight into the archives and other institutions are not outside the ordinary for such endeavor.

Good linguistic and writing skills are critical too. Quite often we have to read other alphabets and search for genealogical information in other languages.

  • Cryptographic Skills
  • Organizational Skills
  • Digital Skills
  • Understanding of the Genetics Science


Continue Reading more on each of the skills and more in our article Top Skills For A Successful Genealogy Research.


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