I want to find my family history and don't know where to start.?

Answer 1

Start with your parents and work back, as others said. Here are the links and notes I save and paste; some one asks the same question almost every day here. You can find other links if you browse the resolved Q.

http://www.cyndislist.com/
(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed.)

http://www.familysearch.com
(Mormon's mega-site)

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
(450,000,000+ entries, of varying quality)

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=
Surname meanings and origins

United States only:

http://www.usgenweb.net/
(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.)
(The Canadians have Canadian Gen Web, by province)

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
(Social Security Death index - click on "Advanced".)

http://find.person.superpages.com/
(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins)

Note:

You won't find living people on any of the sites except the phone book one. You will have to find your grandparents' or great grandparents' birth dates and maiden names somewhere besides the Internet.

The free sites are supported by advertising, just like TV. You can't watch the Super Bowl without seeing a beer commercial, and you can't surf for dead relatives without seeing an Ancestry advertisement. Don't complain about advertisements. They bring you the "free" sites. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Answer 2

The first placce you need to go is your parents, grandparents, great-aunts and uncles, etc and ask them who their family members were when they were growing up. Ask them everything, and maybe you should bring a recorder. Ask them questions like, "where were your parents and grandprents born?" "What were their birthdays/death dates?" "Where are they buried?"

Armed with this info, you can find out more at your local library if they have a genealogy section. If they do, the librarian will be able to show you how to look up census info, and newspaper articles and cemetery transcripts etc. From there, you need to compile everything you have found on software like Family Tree Maker, then you can upload your tree on places like Ancestry.com. You can search other people's trees and eventually you will discover that a distant cousin is working on the same line as you are. Then you can share info.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Get as much information as you can from living relatives, like aunts and uncles, or grandparents. This is your starting point. Anyone who was born before 1930 can be looked up in the US census, and you can track them backwards in time to 1850. Before that, the census only gave the name of the head of household. Wills and land transfers are the main resource base for genealogical information before 1850. Good luck!

Answer 5

type your family name into a search engine see where that takes you, or look for geaneaalogy sites that may give access to resecrh origins of you family name maybe go to coountry sites like my family is brittish so i looked brittish family names or crest, sames done when i research my irish heritage.

Answer 6

My family uses myfamily.com

Answer 7

Start at the beginning.

Answer 8

http://www.cebuplus.com/arts/2/genealogy.html

Answer 9

people search, ancestors.com or go to public library