Buy yourself a good note book and start a making notes about what you know and questions about what you don't know...
Easy places to start:
Obituaries and Prayer cards. Gather them up, you may need to write to Genealogy Societies and go to the library to find them but they are always great to have and sometimes are loaded with information.
Locate and photograph family graves. Most cemeteries will give you a map and grave location numbers. Having a records of final resting places is very important. Lots of times no one thinks of these people or visits them...so keep their memories alive.
Start a family tree on just paper, name the people you know about you may go back farther then you think. Make a notes of all the children your Grandparents and Great Grandparents had. Sometimes Grandparents don't like to talk about children they lost. So check death records online.
This will get you started, I got my start with an obituary and worked from that!
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Maria C. Bosco Militello
Marie C. Bosco was born in La Calle Algeria 1 Sept. 1895, she died in Bay City Michigan on 03 Jun 1963. She is buried at St. Patrick's C...
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Rosalia De Mercurio Bosco was born in Terrasini, Italy in 15 Oct 1877, she died in Bay City Michigan on 29 Dec 1944. She is buried at St. Pa... -
Antonio Carlo Guiseppe Bosco was born in Ventotene, Italy in 03 Dec 1864 he died in Bay City Michigan on 04 September 1931. He is buried at ... -
Okay, I have been asked for this several times so here it is: 5 Generation Chart for the Militello Family. I have a few notes about this...
Lois -- This is great stuff! One note is that Antonino and Grace had 11 children who survived. Santo (born 1915) doesn't show up in the 1940 census. He must have moved out of his parent's house at that point. He went into the produce business like his dad. Thanks for checking on the Bolognas too. I know next to nothing about them. I didn't even know my Grandmother's parents first names until you posted this!
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