Genealogy is a hot business right now. Just look at the interest in scrap-booking, even though this trend applies more to being able to maintain a complete family history. Once someone is hooked on creating a current history, however, chances are good that the bug will bite hard and cause a person to want to know more about his roots. While some people will want to do the whole thing themselves, most people don't have the resources or the time, and they won't know where to look for the information they need.

As a genealogical Researcher, you'll be able to consult with curious families in a variety of ways, either by offering to teach them the basics of how to start their research, or by filling in the gaps they are not able to fill. This could include spending a day in the state historical society, writing down the names of publications that are appropriate to their search, or actually leafing through the books and 100-year-old newspaper archives page by page, looking for the names of family members who may be a branch on the family tree.

Of course genealogy is not an exact or a stagnant art. If you love getting up to your elbows in old books and papers and have a passion for witnessing how certain historical events affected one family, you'll be in heaven as a genealogical researcher.


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