While an individual family’s history is invariably the beginning of a story, learning about that story also reveals a bit of local history and culture of a whole people. Anyone who collects and saves records is an historian, whether he thinks of himself that way or not.
This website, HighlanderJuan.com, is an educational website that, very much like your local library, provides information and resources supporting the subjects of history and family research (genealogy). The site includes a library of typically older and easily readable and downloadable PDF books and documents that are concerned with historical families, individuals, places, and events. The site also includes an interactive discussion blog and open forum for those visitors who register and who wish to interact with other registered members or who wish to respond to blog posts or forum posts.
In this website, we will try to provide enough information and suggestions to help you get started doing your own family research, or help you perform your own historical research project(s). If you are just starting out in family research, you can search and use the book entitled ‘ABCs of Family Research’ available for purchase online at Amazon or found in your local bookstore or library.
We’ll also try to help you see, through stories and observations derived from our own research, how the research process works and how to use your own thinking process to be successful. Some of what we write and post may be redundant to what you may already know and understand about computers, or genealogy, or whatever, but remember – this is an educational website.
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Highlander History started in August, 2018, but didn’t open its website for widespread use until January, 2019. We intended as a friendly online community and a place where historians, family researchers, and people in general, young or old, can meet, research and obtain historical information, and exchange ideas.
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