Starting your own business

It isn't actually that hard to research if you have the drive, the knowledge, and the skill. If you want to make money as a professional genealogist, and you have the motivation to work hard, then you have the drive needed. If you've ever researched anything, from a school paper to a politician prior to voting, you have the skill to be a researcher. But how one research, where, and what records are available requires knowledge that only comes with practice. In my four part video series, I cover how one goes from amateur to professional. Here is part one, originally published on my Everyman Genealogy Blog in June 2012. Years may have passed, but the truth is still so very true.