For those of you who have asked how to research their family line, we suggest the following:  The EASY FOUR STEP STARTER PROGRAM .  The "easy four step starter program" is the easiest way to start if you really have no experience in family research.

First    -- Step 1 --- Buy a genealogy program for your computer so you can organize the information and download information from others.  I cannot emphasis too strongly that using a computer genealogy program is about the only way to organize your information so it is of use to you.

Step 2 --- Enter into your computer genealogy program whatever information you do already have. 

Step 3 - If you are researching Bucklin family --- Join the Joseph Bucklin Society.  (See link in the left margin of this page.) The Society will send members a computer disk of database information on the Bucklins in our data base..

Step 4 --- Then start researching (and entering into your computer)  additional information on your family line. If you are going to do a good genealogy, you should have more than the basic birth and death information.  Add to the facts about the person more than their dates of birth and death.  Add any  information about persons.  Start with yourself and your near relatives.