The Austin Families Genealogical Society |
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For New Members…
For AFGS members who are just starting to explore their Austin-Austen roots, the best
first step is to visit the AFGS Austin-Austen Research Center (via the
Research
link above). If you cannot locate your Austin-Austen line there, then you
will want to submit one or more Queries to the Society's staff (via the
Queries
link above). By sharing what you already know about your
ancestors, you enable our staff to research the AFGS computer files
and AFGS Library to try and locate more
about your Austin-Austen line. Searches often succeed, but not always. Queries which cannot be
answered are published in the Society newsletter, the Austin
Families Register (formerly Austins
of America), which is published in January, May & September and
distributed to many State Libraries, to major genealogical and
historical societies around the United States, and to AFGS Members in
several countries. Query responses are often received from newsletter readers. Even when
Queries cannot be fully answered, the AFGS staff can often put querists in contact with others researching the same or a related
Austin-Austen line. New information is always coming into AFGS and new Austin-Austen genealogists
are discovering our web site daily, so some queries still get responses several years
after they were submitted. One query was answered eleven years after it
was first published! |
