BUILDING THE FAMILY TREE™

Genealogy, Ancestral Research, Property Connections & Succession Planning Manual

By NobEL Sha-doe Ali

Dominion Educational Program™

Your family tree should be more than names written on a chart.

It should be a documented record of who your people were, where they lived, what property they held, who descended from them, and what evidence proves each connection.

BUILDING THE FAMILY TREE™ is a step-by-step genealogy, ancestral-property, descendant-research, and succession-research manual designed to help families transform stories passed down through generations into an organized and permanent evidence archive.

The journey begins with what your family already knows. Students learn how to interview relatives, document parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, trace maiden names and marriages, identify collateral relatives, and work through complicated relationships involving remarriage, adoption, stepfamilies, half-siblings, guardianships, births, and deaths.

But family tradition is only the beginning.

Family tradition is a research lead.

A source is evidence.

The book then teaches students how to prove the tree through birth and death certificates, marriage records, census schedules, obituaries, probate files, wills, deeds, tax records, cemetery records, church records, military records, historical archives, and other primary and secondary sources.

From there, the investigation moves into one of the most important parts of the Dominion system:

THE LAND.

Students learn to investigate the chain:

Ancestor → Residence → Property → Deed → Probate → Heirs → Present Ownership

The manual explains how to research ancestral farms and family property, build chains of title, examine probate transfers, investigate heirs' property, study partition proceedings, and reconstruct tax sales, foreclosures, and other transfers without assuming what happened before examining the actual records.

Then the research reverses direction.

Instead of only asking “Who were my ancestors?”, students begin asking:

“Who descended from them?”

That process produces the Dominion Descendant Registry™, tracing an ancestor forward through children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and living descendants while maintaining proper evidence and privacy controls.

The final section introduces succession research—including probate, testate and intestate succession, heirs, devisees, beneficiaries, representation and per stirpes concepts, adopted descendants, half-blood relationships, after-born descendants, disclaimers, deceased beneficiaries, and changing family structures.

Most importantly, the book teaches a critical distinction:

Genealogy can help prove a family relationship.

A genealogy chart by itself does not determine legal heirship or transfer ownership of property.

By the end of the program, the student is prepared to assemble a complete:

DOMINION BLOODLINE & SUCCESSION FILE™

Containing the family tree, source register, research log, Dominion Descendant Registry™, ancestral property register, chain-of-title research, probate records, succession worksheets, conflict-and-proof log, and permanent genealogy archive.

40 Chapters • 5 Major Parts • 35 Research Tools & Working Forms

This is not simply about discovering names.

Find the people.

Prove the relationships.

Follow the records.

Find the land.

Trace the descendants.

Preserve the evidence.

Pass the knowledge forward.

DOMINION EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM™

Knowledge • Power • Respect = Legacy