Episode III: Getting Started

Hello, my name is Mike DeBacker, and welcome to another episode of Gathering More Leaves. Please join me on my journey as I reflect on the exploration of my family history for the past 45 years. 

After making the trek to the National Archives and the LDS Library in 1985, my family history research effort search pretty much dried up, and I settled into trying to make my documentation readable and understandable by future generations. Being a computer programmer and interested in databases, I tried my hand at a couple of different methods of maintaining the information I had collected. As I went along, it was very much a learning process.

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