2006-06-19 14:33:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Your relatives. If your grandparens remember who their grandparents were - including maiden names, birth dates, death dates, marriage dates - you've got your own gg-grandparents.
The courthouse, if your family has been in that county for generations. Wills, birth certificates, marriage applications. death certificates, tax records.
The main branch of your county library may have a local history room; again, this won't do you much good if your family moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and sold the farm in Vermont that had been in your family for 6 generations.
Family Bibles.
The largest Mormon church in your county probably has a Family History Center, the way Christian Scientists have reading rooms; open to all, for free. They have CD's and volunteers.
Church records, again if your family has been going to it for generations. They may have birth, baptism, wedding and death records.
Cemeteries and funeral homes sometimes have the name of the deceased, her maiden name if she was a lady, spouse, date of death, birth date, cause of death.
Newspapers have births, deaths and marriages, but unless you want to spend months wading through microfilm, you have to know roughly when it took place. The social pages often have wedding reports chock full of good stuff - the bride's sister, Kathleen was maid of honor, her father Bill walked her down the aisle, the groom's brother Bob was best man. . .
Obituaries (again, in the newspaper) have genealogical data.
Almost all of these sources, however, depend on your being in - or visiting - the county where your ancestors lived and died. That's why the Internet is such a Godsend to us.
2006-06-19 16:45:34 · answer #1 · answered by Stuart King 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you have a library that has a genealogy department, is one place. Court houses, County clerk for marriages, health departments for death and birth records, the list goes on.
Obituaries, church records, microfilm, cemetery books, census books, etc can be found in your local library.
These are free sites on the internet. Same info as ancestry and all the others you have to pay for.
Hope this helps.
2006-06-26 15:36:19 · answer #2 · answered by Dottie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know if you live anywhere near utah, but there is this awesome family history library that the church of jesus christ of latter day saints has set up. you can find books, and records of almost anyone going back really far. i went in there and spent a whole day reading books that have been published about my ancestors. IT's located in down town salt lake city utah, so i might be far away. and it's not just mormon people in the library, it's records of every religion and ethnicity. but the church also has a good website to for geneology. but talking to your family would be good to, interview your oldest living relatives, maybe bring a tape recorder, that always helps, then just type it up
and it's not the temple where the records are held, it's next to the temple,
2006-06-19 21:42:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mormons have done studies on family history and have quite an extensive library on them. If you have a local Church of the Latter Day Saints in your area, I recommend that you go there. These folks will help you. I know because they helped me one time with some family history. Most of the family histories is on microfilm. Go there and get started. These people are very happy to help you find your family history. They do it for free.
2006-06-21 21:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by PsychoSam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, you can find a church near by you , they have a room set up just for family history, they will also help you get started. Good luck, its awesome to find out so much about your family and yourself.
2006-06-20 02:00:34 · answer #5 · answered by Lillie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a genealogist..the other places you can get information in the genealogy sections in public library ..they have city directories abd other books...also the courhouse in your town graveyards..etc..
2006-06-20 00:39:11 · answer #6 · answered by celwolf1953 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the Mormon temple in Salt Lake city, Utah
2006-06-19 21:36:42 · answer #7 · answered by nuked25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to older relatives, maybe over lunch, and ask them questions about their parents and family. They probably have old pictures or notes about family from generations ago.
2006-06-19 21:36:09 · answer #8 · answered by Jeremy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The library?
2006-06-19 21:36:23 · answer #9 · answered by firefly37830 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LIbraries and Cemeteries where the family is from
2006-06-19 22:25:21 · answer #10 · answered by tracystokes3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋