I have been doing family research to some degree for about forty five years or so, some people have said it's similar to detective work and I guess there is some truth to that being you are investigating not only people from the past, but also here in the present as well. For the first several years it was all done with pencil and paper and going to various places checking on what ever records were available.
By the mid 1990's computers were coming into play with just about everything including tracking your ancestors. I was on a job in south Florida during this time and since the job was only...