Every country should have the head of country to lead the country. One of the head of countries in many countries is President. President is the most important position in a country. The president functions to lead the government to work hard in developing the country so that the citizens will live in their best living condition.

As the one of the most powerful country around the world, United States choose its president through presidential election. The election for United States President is held every four years.  The result of presidential election of United States in 2008 can be noted as important event in the history since Barrack Obama was voted to become the first black person that becomes the president of United States. Barrack Obama from the democrats won the election with perfect amount of voters. In the world of politic, 2008 is a bad year for republicans.  You can see that this result was celebrated by the supporters of Barrack Obama. Barrack Obama becomes American hero on the vote4theusa day. American celebrated their new president with full of rejoice. Barrack Obama will become the president of United States for four years up to 2012.

Hopefully, United States will come out from crisis and become more developed under the leadership of Obama.

“Collecting Dead Relatives and Sometimes a Live Cousin” and “My Family Tree is Lost in the Forest” are just some of the catchy slogans found printed on the shirts of genealogy enthusiasts. These avid researchers are looking to fill the holes in their family trees. It’s work that most have been at for decades.

My wife and I wanted to get started finding our lost relatives, but we didn’t know where to begin. She had a binder full of information that one of her relatives had put together, but other than that, we were the ones who were lost.

We started by going to the Genealogy library at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library, but you can also do this online.

The first step to finding your lost relatives is to download all the information that has already been compiled. We did this by using the Ancestral File database that is indexed at the world’s largest genealogy library, The Family History Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. We remotely accessed the database and first found my wife’s records. We saw on her pedigree chart that some relatives had already compiled information on her mother’s line, but her father’s line was empty. After downloading my wife’s pedigree chart onto a GEDCOM file, we did some research on her father’s line. The family history consultant told us that it’s possible that there has been work done on her father’s line, but it just hasn’t been connected to my wife’s file.

By typing in her paternal grandfather’s name into the search, we were able to find much more information. The consultant told us that we needed to download his pedigree chart, take it home to our computer and merge his file with my wife’s file. That would associate all his information with my wife’s.

The best computer program for compiling Family History information is Personal Ancestral File (PAF) which is currently in the 5.2 release. The software is free, so you should be able to find it in any search engine.

Check back again for the next installment which will deal with doing your own research.