Hey, i am doing this project in school where I have to find the history of my last name and my ancestors. What's a good site to do that? (a free site not all that crap where you have to pay)
2006-09-27 04:34:12 · 11 answers · asked by crazyromo 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Hey dmitriy_r...,
Here are some free sites. Included is the Family Search Software for free!
The best place to start is with your closest living relatives. Parents, Grandparents etc. Get clues from them, take notes on dates, events, names, etc. Work your way backward in time, being careful to document each person, maiden sides also.
Vital Records do cost money unless someone already has them, birth certificates, etc. Get Obits for free on line, or from the library in the town where someone died.
Good luck with the project!
2006-09-27 05:45:35 · answer #1 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Look just 6 Q down from yours,
"Is there any reputable AND FREE web sites to trace my genealogy?"
and see lots of answers. That line about "Learn something" means it.
Since it is for school, the meaning and origin of your surname should get you started. Make up something reasonable for your grandparents, using the SSDI (link in answer above). Figure 33 years per generation, average. When you get to great grandparents, say no one knows and your parents wished they had ased more questions when the GGP's were alive. Your teacher can't check. A decent genealogy - back to the 30 to 32 GGGP's - would take you a month. My nephew landed an assignment like yours. I have been doing genealogy for 20 years, so I sent him a report. It came out 165 pages, back to Charlemagne.
You probably don't have 32 GGGP's because someone married a cousin.
2006-09-27 15:10:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a mormon, and I promise you that I'm not here to preach. But, try looking up a mormon church or go to a mormon friend and ask them about Geneology. They should be able to point you in a direction for obtaining information for your family history!
Good luck!
2006-09-27 19:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by tubachick5490 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to your local library, ask the librarian behind the reference desk, and she'll be able to point you to good, free sources.
Ancestry.com does offer some stuff for free, and so does familysearch.org, which is run by the Mormon church.
2006-09-27 11:42:25 · answer #4 · answered by Joel A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try ancestry.com or ourstory.com, I'm not sure if you have to pay or not. But if you know the name of your great-great-great-great granparents first or last name, you can google it. That's if nothing else works.
2006-09-27 11:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try talking to your parents, grandparents etc. You might be surprised the information they can tell you.
2006-09-27 17:47:13 · answer #6 · answered by Gatherer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the library is a good place to start,and its free.
2006-09-27 12:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GIVE ME YOUR FAMILY NAME AND THE NAMES OF YOUR GRANDPARENTS AND THE NEAREST COUNTRY OF ORIGIN THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF!!!
2006-09-27 14:35:55 · answer #8 · answered by eldoradoreefgold 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to cemetary.
2006-09-27 11:40:30 · answer #9 · answered by winksnoop 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get a shovel.
2006-09-27 11:36:15 · answer #10 · answered by doctor_johnnie_jointroller 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋