How do u trace back ur family tree to see if ur related to like royalty?

Question

Ok, Im half Mexican And Half salvadorian....my mom says all mexicans come from Aztec ancestry...and i dont live with my dad so i dont know about salvadorians!...but how do i find out..plz help! Thanks!=)

Answer 1

Genealogy is a specialty of mine and I can tell you VERY DEFINITELY that your mother doesn't know anything. Mexicans are a hughly varied people from pure Castilian (Spanish of the Spanish) to mixtures with Blacks, native Indians of dozens if now hundreds of tribes--including Azteks (the modern spelling)--Caucasians OTHER THAN Spanish and there is solid genetic evidence that at some remote time, Asian females (perhaps Chinese or Japanese) entered the Native American tribes' gene pools and gradually moved southward from today's southern California. Other likely presences include French from the Maximillian Empire era, Corsian and Sardinian (from the French Army). And I may be wrong on this but I don't think so--there is a very good chance of Germans from th 1880s and 1890s establishing a few "new" towns in Mexico and coming directly from then-wildly-overpopulated Germany (which could also have included some Poles.)

Salvadorians about about the same combinations and "pure" strains but there also is a strong chance of Italian as well.

The answer to your "royality" question is, most likely, once you establish a European ancestry. Nearly EVERYONE in Europe is kin to royality if you trace the line back far enough. FACT!!

Go to the Scotsman newspaper website and "subscribe" (no cost) and look at the genealogy series they run on Sundays. They have an expert who just started a column and there are four or perhaps, now, five columns on line. It nearly all pertains to Scotland and Scot records but you can pick up some good techniques and HOW-TO from his texts.

Just remember that as a female, you will have extreme difficultites in tracing back your female lines because of the surname chances at marriage time. And your male ancestors may be false leads became of infidelities, adoptions and name-changes for political or financial reasons. Spelling changes also will frustrate you to no end. Luckily, you have church records for the most part once you get back about three-four generations and the church keeps very good records, provided a church hasn't been burned along the way.

Best of luck. Genealogy is fascinating and can teach you a lot about why you are the way you are--and you may pick up on inheritable diseases along the way which can benefit yo and your children if your families have a trait for them.

Just remember that you may run into language barriers back in Europe and at some point you will have to guess which Juan (no middle name) Gomez is your male ancestor out of six in the church register and in some small village in Spain four hundred years ago.

Answer 2

Start with yourself: your full name, birth date and place, etc. Get that information for each of your parents; then for each of their parents. Just work your way backward. Whenever possible, try to get a photocopy of everyone's birth, marriage, and death certificates; or at least get the names, dates, and places off them. These documents often have other important pieces of information on them. If by chance you were born in Mexico, you have an advantage over most researchers. That's because modern Mexican birth certificates, in addition to the parents' names, also include the grandparents' names. That means you've automatically got three generations started just from your own birth certificate!

You also have an advantage over most Caucasian/European researchers in that many of the Latin cultures, from Spain to Mexico to Central and South America, include mothers' maiden names as part of a child's name. For example: Let's say you come across a relative named Juan Castaneda Gomez; immediately you know that his father was surnamed Gomez and his mother was surnamed Casteneda. By learning their full names, let's say Luis Rodriguez Gomez and Maria Lopez Castaneda, you know that Juan's paternal grandmother was a Rodriguez and Juan's maternal grandmother was a Lopez. I recently did a genealogy for a Latina co-worker and we were able to trace her family back to the mid-1850s. Because of this unique Latin naming practice we didn't lose the female branches of the family.

www.CyndisList.com is a free website that will get you well started. It will link you up with many sites from ethnic group to surname to general assistance. www.FamilySearch.org is another free site where you can search the Mormon genealogical database of resources. If you find something that looks like it might be useful you can order a microfilm or microfiche to be sent to a Family History Center near you. The volunteers at the center will try to help you also. The government, www.NARA.gov, has a lot of information but only a very few centers where you can go see it for free. www.Ancestry.com is very, very good; it's also very, very expensive and sometimes you end up paying for access to information that you could have gotten for free if you had dug a little harder.

Genealogy is a hobby that can last a lifetime. I've picked it up and put it down as time has allowed for the last thirty years. Good luck in your searches.

Answer 3

You may find that extremely difficult,because your royal ancestries no longer exist unlike other countries that still have monarch like Great Britain,Spain,Thailand,Japan,Sweden,Denmark and many more....Please read more about it at this website
http://www.snowtao.com/mr/anastasi.htm

Answer 4

look for sites on the net that trace history. Usually it costs some money, but they can help

Answer 5

If you are serious about it .... There is ancestry.com go to your local library and they might have a subscription otherwise go to www.fvrl.org it is free if you have a library card with them. That is a washington state library.

Answer 6

Well, it's not that hard for me because my family tree only has one branch and it goes straight up.

Answer 7

Check your family tree...

Answer 8

ask your mom for names, google them or something, do some searching!!!

good luck ;)

share the millions with me later :)

Answer 9

you can try ancestry.com, but i think most, if not all, sites like that charge you a fee

Answer 10

Have your DNA tested and compared.