Setting a goal

You will soon realize that the genealogist's work is exponential and can go in all directions.

So you will have to set yourself limits if you want to do a quality work.

The following points are only examples of choices to be made to delimit a research perimeter that can be achieved in a lifetime.

Whose genealogy?

Define whose genealogy will be developed:

• Yours
• Your wife's
• Your family's, starting with your children or grand children
• That of a close relative
• A friend's.

Over how many generations?

Define the number of generations to be identified:

• All the way back to the great-grandparents
• Back to Independence day, the French revolution, the first English settlers, back to William Shakespeare birth, etc.
• Back to the Middle Age or William the Conqueror

Which branches?

Define branches to be identified:

• All
• Paternal lineage only
• Maternal lineage
• Specific ones

What descendants?

Define from which ancestors you wish to identify descendants and cousins :

• From the highest ancestor found
• From Great-grandparents
• From all ancestors found

What level of detail?

Define the level of detail to be obtained for each individual

• According to its generation
• Systematically have the sources of all acts
• Only Birth, Marriage, Death
• The maximum number of events