how can one find genealogy?

Question

for example; name raja; surname cheenepally; caste name reddy. from chittor district, andhra pradesh, india. now how to find their origion.

Answer 1

Hi Prince47,

Your genealogy starts with you. Then your parents, then your grand parents, and iteratively their preceeding parents. As you go back each generation, you will double the previous number of ancestors from the prior generation (you have twice the number of great grandparents as grandparents). So, you need to draw a binary tree.

There are software packages to help you with that. Like Family Tree Maker. Then you document each link from parent to child with documentation, proof, evidence. This can be birth, death, marriage certificates and a host of other types of documentation. Pictures are great. DNA Evidence is great.

You can go to GENEALOGY.COM, ANCESTRY.COM or any of the sites below for additional information. AS you get going through this mass of information, you will find that there are other people interested in the same families as you are - if you collaborate with them, you can fill in your family tree faster and more accurately. When I started, I only had a few generations, those that I knew. People helped me on various family sites on the internet. These have only gotten better in the past 5 years.

So, try a search on Yahoo for your sir name, or any other family name (like your mothers maiden name), with the word FAMILY. You will see genealogy sites where people post questions, answer questions, store family trees, and will probably have some useful information for you.

Notice below there are ELLIS ISLAND links. The Later Day Saints (I am not of their religion) keep excellent records. There are Civil war sites, and Cindi's list is excellent list of lists.

Best of luck, if you get stuck, post again.

Answer 2

Hate to burst the bubble, but finding any family history on an Indian family is going to be VERY tough. Reddy is also an Irish name, so everything you're going to find on genealogy.com is going to be Irish for that name. You might try searching the last name itself on google or ask.com, but you probably won't find much, sorry to say. In genealogical terms, in the United States, Indian heritage is very recent, most of the information remaining in India. And I'll tell you, India does NOT keep very good records where population is concerned. If they immigrated to England during its' colonial period, there may be some record, but again, I doubt it. Whites did not consider Indians much better than monkeys; they were despised and treated as the lowest of the low, the outcaste of that society, regardless of their personal family status. Records just weren't kept. You write of your childrens' births, not your servants'.

Now, I don't want to dash your hopes completely, because you might luck out, and there might be some record. I'd look in the British colonial period, for the names of those who served either in the Army or in a medical position. Servants may not have been recorded, but officers certainly were. And while there may not have been many of them, who knows? Your ancestor might have been one. Check British military records from the 19th century, the records from Ellis Island, and the census soonest after your famil immigrated...wherever they are now.

Of course, this has all been assuming your family immigrated. If you're still located in India, all records, such as they are, have remained in India, and you're not likely to find much at all, since most family records were oral, not written.

Oh, and, by the way. For the community of European descent, surname and last name are the same thing. We don't have a caste distinction. If you look this up, look for the name most likely to have been used, but only one of them at a time. Western records, especially American, will only have one name, having put the first as a middle name, not a surname.

Answer 3

Many Mormon Churches have genealogy libraries and they are open to the public. They have the most extensive files available.

Answer 4

You might try http://www.lds.org and follow their Family History link...

There may be another link inside that one to take you overseas to India.

Answer 5

the internet

Answer 6

well you already start to search them in here......

Answer 7

start with genealogy.com

Answer 8

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