I'm studying to be a genetic genealogist, right now my courses are very much forcing me to figure some things out on my own. Which is fine, but I'm stuck. Finding modern people is a major component of this type of work.
Tracing records back is pretty easy, but to trace everything forward to find modern people is challenging. I'm just not finding birth records. Obituaries are the only records I can rely on to give me really any info on who the children of someone are. I don't see any records of anyone in these trees having kids in the past ~70 years, but I know lots of these births exist. I can't even find census records; maybe I'm doing something wrong?
I know privacy laws are probably a big factor here. But does anyone have advice on how to find modern tree members?
My main tool for this current curriculum is Ancestry.com, but I'm obviously happy to use whichever platform or tool to find people.