Genealogy

Genealogy is the study of a family’s lineage. People might use genealogy to trace out their family trees, or simply to find a specific person in a family’s past and connect him or her to other members of that family. Genealogy is interested solely in who is in a family and who they are related to, as opposed to the more general study of Family history, which might also track dates of birth and death, occupations held by family members, and other important facts about their lives and deaths. While some people, on occasion, refer to this larger field as genealogy, genealogy is better viewed as a subset of a greater discipline. Genealogy may also play an important role in helping to restore families that have been torn apart by some larger circumstance. With the Internet, genealogy is now much easier to research than at any other time in history. Search the ahha! Directory below to find companies that can trace out your family tree.