Have you ever wondered where you came from? Unless you’re one of the lucky few people who can trace their lineage back for hundreds of years, you probably have little idea who your family was beyond your great grandparents, if that. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, learning about your family history is easier than it ever has been before. Whereas years ago you had to spend hours or days in libraries or public record storages, today it’s possible within hours to trace your family back at least a few generations by using the many online resources that are available.

Here are some steps you can take to learn more about your family’s history right from your Alachua apartment at One 51 Place:

• Visit a genealogy site like Ancestry.com or Myheritage.com and create a profile for yourself.

• Next, fill out the family tree tool they provide with as many relatives as you know. If you really want to know as much as possible, call family members to help make the list as complete as possible. The more fleshed out your family tree is, the greater the chances that these websites will find a link to other relatives in their expansive databases.

• Once your family tree is fleshed out enough, the website will begin to fill in the blanks and show you information about people you’re related to. You can use Google or another search engine to learn more about individual family members, and then use that information to further expand and enrich the family tree. You might even discover you’re related to someone famous!

• Finally, if you involved any family members in your research, call them and tell them about what you’ve discovered.

By using these remarkable websites, you can learn a lot about your heritage in a single afternoon. Best of all, you can do so right from your spacious apartment home at One 51 Place Apartment Homes. If you would like to learn more about our community, please contact our leasing office or fill out a form on the contact us page of this website today. We would love to give you a tour of our community and show off our many luxurious amenities.