how do i find some one if i don't know where and when they was born?

Question

I have been trying to do my family tree but i dont know where or when my grandparents came from. I know there names and thats all so what do i do?

i also dont know where in the world they come from i dont know if they are englis or german or what no one knows and that makes is harder.

Answer 1

Their death certificates, SSN applications, marriage licenses, obituaries, birth certificates and the article about their wedding in the hometown paper are all possibilities. Without some sort of decade and continent, it is hard to give specifics.

I'm guessing you are an American 16 - 26, so your parents were born within 10 years of 1956, and your grandparents within 20 years of 1926, but that is just an estimate. My mother's grandfather fought in the Civil War, in the USA. He was born in 1837. You could be my Aunt, who is 87.

Answer 2

tell me their family surname and i'll maybe be able to help you !!nationality is a big clue!!!there are many records that open up to the diligent researcher!!it is tough work if you truly want to grt results!!!i have traced slave families to the beginnings of having received a last name and beyond just on a dare!!i unfolded their families whole experience since being brought as slaves from barbados in the 1690's!!right through the civil war and into the present finding records of travel for a father that the individual had no knowledge of whatsoever!!i even found the name a the slaveship that brought them here tracing ten generations five without any surname!!from plantation to plantation!!and the original region from africa that the slavers had struck at to get their cargo!!regions in the united states are rich in family history and it is surprising how much of my own relative's stories are actually in literature ready and available from revolutionary war officers to caribbean pirates like bartholomew sharp circa 1683 and the second great sacking of panama!! yours truly ,greg sharp

Answer 3

Try the web site www.ancestry.com. They are brilliant for searches, including censuses, marriage, birth, death records, some military, and even newspaper articles which include the name. They also give an option called Soundex which means it will not only look for the name, but also any optional spellings on what the name sounds like. Or www.Ancestry.co.uk. Also, look at your own birth certificate for your parents, which should give you a lot of incidental information, and then the birth certificates of their parents. Good luck.

Answer 4

Harold Keith Robley

Answer 5

Type their names into: familysearch.org and see if anything comes up.

Answer 6

be in an archeologistic mind... dig their past and travel to where they lived earlier, who were associated with them and what they were at that period... you will succeed, sure.