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Volunteer for Genealogy Work!
There are so many incredible resources now available on the web, from cemetery lists to census reports and much more. These were all made available by volunteers - regular people just like you!
Just like you sit and hope and surf the web, hoping to get information on your relatives, so do millions of other individuals. And while your searches may be on lands that are thousands of miles away, many people out there may be doing searches to find information right in your back yard.
Consider donating even just 3 or 4 hours a month to your local historical society, to help them put information on line. You can borrow their cemetery listings or other paper records and transcribe them, emailing them back the finished text for easy placement on their website. If you have a camera, head down to the local cemeteries and take some photos. Even if the photos are just general "this is what the cemetery looks like" sorts of things, it could be a treasured image to a family that traces back to your area.
Roam around at different times of years and take pictures of the local town hall, the older buildlings, the landscapes. To you, these are your normal day to day views. But to someone a thousand miles away curious about their grandparents and great grandparents, these are amazing glimpses into the life of their ancestors.
It doesn't have to be serious research work that you do. You could put online funny stories from the town's history. You could put up the names and backgrounds of those who died in the civil war. Whatever it is you do to help, you will become part of a tradition of volunteers that stretches around the world, helping all of us connect with our past.
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