Researching Your Family Roots

I often have people ask me how to get started researching their own family on the Internet. Before you start on the internet, be SURE to interview your own family and friends, and get copies of any family bibles that are available. These will help move your research along. Once that is done, you can use the Internet. Here are a few links which I continue to find useful:

	One of the best FREE resources available! WWW.Rootsweb.com
	The Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) continue to be on the forefront of genealogy research. Use this link to do preliminary research, then take the information in to one of their Family History Centers to look for more details. www.familysearch.org
	The site, www.usgenweb.org has a large number of searchable files and databases, organized by state and county.
	If you have specific family questions, try posting them here: http://genforum.genealogy.com/abernathy/ or here: http://genforum.genealogy.com/abernethy/ (depending upon the spelling). NOTE: Genforum hosts many family forums - not just Abernethy!
	I also occasionally get questions asking about families other than the Abernathys. Let me assure you that I have included ALL of the information I have about allied families. If you would like to ask other researchers about your family, why not try Genforum? Use the same link that I have shown above, but substitute the surname you are interested in. For example, to go to the SMITH forum, you would enter: http://genforum.genealogy.com/smith/

I also have several books about our family. Since I am uncertain about the copyrights, I can't post them, however I can do lookups for anyone interested. Here they are:

	The James Abernethy Family
	The Remarkable Ride of the Abernathy Boys by Robert B. Jackson
	The Antecedents of the Abernethy Family in Scotland, Virginia and Alabama by Thomas Perkins Abernethy. Photocopy from U-M-I, Out of Print Books on Demand.
	The Civil War Diary of Martha Abernathy - Professional Printing Inc. Beltsville Maryland.