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Greetings from our family tree to yours!

I began researching my family history in 1990 after a lifetime of listening to my grandmother tell stories of how her parents came to the United States through Ellis Island. Like most people I wondered where did they come from? What were they like? Why did they leave everything and everyone they knew behind to start a new life in New Jersey?

In 1995 I connected for the first time on the Internet using a dial-up connection. Once of the first things I started searching for were sites about genealogy. Back then there weren't many sites available. Relatively quickly I was frustrated by how little there was on the world wide web. The following year I went back to college to obtain my Masters degree in Computer Information Systems. I finished my coursework in December 2000.

During the four years it took to obtain my degree I did not have a lot of time to travel for genealogy related research. However, being that I was becoming more familiar with computers I found myself constantly looking for new and better sites on the Internet to help me research my family tree.

With the birth of my daughter in 2001 I discovered an even stronger desire to learn about my family, where they came from, what they did for work, and how they lived in general. I made many trips home to New Jersey. Dragged my daughter and wife through the cemeteries of Essex County. Visited the State Archives in Trenton.

And I began hanging out at my local LDS Family History Center almost every Tuesday night. I have ordered hundreds of microfilm reels over the past five years. In that time I have made lots of friends with similar genealogical interests. We've compared notes, stories and the best websites we've come across. Through the LDS church a new genealogy society formed, The Parker Genealogical Society of Colorado, and I bacame their webmaster.

It was a year ago that I decided I wanted to become more involved in the genealogy community and try to combine that with my love for web design. And so ResearchGenealogy.com was born.