2006-09-06 05:12:39 · 10 answers · asked by Eric H 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Hey Eric H,
Use GENFORUM and hook up with other people.
Use the LDS Family Search site to get other links to ancestors
Use Vital Records, Census Records, Family Bibles, DNA, etc.
Vital Records are yours to get for your ancestors! You may have to pay for them, local municipalities are the cheapest. Then States are more - worse are the Web Vendors. But Vital Records give you the specific person, and links backward, to their parents dates and locations.
I put some basic sites below. If you need specialty sites, (native american, or something like Scottish), then go to Cyndis list and search for it. You will get a list of lists.
If I had the names I could be more help.
2006-09-06 05:19:10 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has to start somewhere. Get as much information about the 3 generations that you do have. Birth, Death, Marriage, Children etc. The more information you can get the better. Ask living relatives what they remember. Family members can be a great resource. Family photographs are also a great source of information: look on the back. Once you have as much information from those sources, then start your search. Town records, cemeteries, etc. Good luck
2006-09-06 10:35:30 · answer #2 · answered by Gatherer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 generations can be 48 years (three girls in a row have a child at age 16) or 180 years. (three men in a row take second wives and have children by them when they were 60.) It is usually 100 years. If your 3rd generation ancestors died after 1880 or so, they may have had obituaries printed, and you may be able to get those obits. The obit may tell you the name of the person's parents. Death certificates or marriage license applications may also.
http://www.tedpack.org/obit.html
has everything I know about obituaries.
If your public library has a subscriptions to census images, and you are in the US or UK, you can learn a lot.
Best of luck!
2006-09-06 06:07:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check with a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Genealogy (or Family History Center) Library. There is one or more in every big city and even in very small towns. Check out the website below for a library nearest you. They will help you get started and keep going. You do not have to be a member of the church to go there. The biggest one is in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Good luck and happy searching!
2006-09-06 16:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by Happy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have ancestors born before 1930, you can use the US Censuses to track your ancestors back through time to about 1850. Before 1850, the censuses only named each head of household. Before 1850, you usually have to find wills and probate records, if available. Sometimes you can get lucky and find that someone else has researched some of your ancestors and they can be found on RootsWeb.com or FamilySearch.org., which are free sites. Ancestry.com is not really any better and costs quite a bit. Good luck!
2006-09-06 07:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by correrafan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start with you. Write down your birthday. Then write down your parents, write down their birthday. Then write down their parents, write down their birthday, and marriage date. Next, look for documents that will prove these dates. Your grandparent's birth certificates should contain their parents names. Then check the census, city directories, ask relatives, and look at inherited photos or papers. Any of those may have the answers.
I learned a lot about my family from the family bible my mother inherited. Also, I found the answers to some questions from the papers collected and inherited.
Do not rule out family stories. They may have a grain of truth.
Good luck Cousin.
2006-09-06 09:41:57 · answer #6 · answered by Differently-abled musician 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may be obvious, but don't underestimate living resourses. Talk to every elder relative you can. Perhaps they will have answers to your family's past you don't know about. After you have exhausted all living resourses, then go to the other resourses, census records, county clerk offices for certificates and registrations, church records for baptisms, marriages and funerals, obituaries printed in newspapers, military records, passenger lists on ships . . . the list goes on and on. Have fun!
2006-09-06 07:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by norsesoutheastwest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use birth, marriage and death certificates. Particularly on birth certificates, they'll have the name of the mother and the father, allowing you to continue your search.
2006-09-06 05:15:34 · answer #8 · answered by Weeble316 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do an ancerstary back round. by asking family what they know or do a websearch. i do
2006-09-06 05:18:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you find out please message me I would love to know. I have heard of genealogy websites.
2006-09-06 05:15:47 · answer #10 · answered by Freckled aquarius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋