Hey Koko Butta Kream,
Start with your Birth Record, then your parents, then your great grandparents. Your ancestors are directly tied in recent history, by Vital Records. Going back past 2nd and 3rd Great Grandparents is when it gets difficult. Use the surnames of each parent to search for GENFORUM sites that may already be researching those names. And check Family Search.com for Ancestors.
You will eventually need to focus on Black History, and specifically the records about your ancestors. Then, as was suggested to you already, there is DNA. Here are some great sites to get you started.
Remember that the basic premise of Genealogy applies to everyone - start with yourself, and work backwards. Then when you exhaust the conventional methos of getting information, specalize in each family branch as needed.
2006-12-09 03:06:43
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answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7
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April TX's answer about the DNA test is a good start; the National Goegraphic Society will do it for free.
Also, if you can identify a slave ancestor, there may be records. Sadly, they will most likely be property records. Slaveholder's wills, for example, often listed the slaves being passed along as inherited property. Alex Haley's "Roots" research provides a good outline of the method.
Several other good suggestions have been posted here; make use of whatever you can.
Good luck, Koko.
2006-12-09 22:54:44
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answered by x 7
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Talk to your elder relatives first. Your first clues can come from them--you need names of grandparents, great grandparents, uncles and aunts as well as great uncles/aunts. Make sure you get the real names, seems like 60 or more years ago, what people were called may have had no relation to their actual given name! You also need to know where they lived--get town names along with the state. With the town and state, you can look them up to also find the county name.
Once you get some names, and where they lived, you can then go to the Mormon Church's website and search their archives on census records. Census info is by state, and county, so that's why you need the detail up front. Also if you can go to some of the communities where your grandparents or even older ancestors grew up, you might find some geneological info in the county library or local historical society.
If you are interested in finding where some of the ancestors you found are buried, there is a great web site called http://www.interment.net that has some cemetery info by state and county and community. Some are not very complete, while others are very well done-thanks to volunteers who walked the cemeteries and recorded the data, then put it out on the web.
2006-12-09 10:58:12
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answered by Anonymous
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do your genealogy start with you and work back . document where they were born died married . by the time you get to your great grandparents you have a pretty good idea of how to do your genealogy.and most of that information should be easy for you to obtain just keep working back and you should be able to trace your way back to where you came from there are several free site out there rootsweb and the latter day saint site are totally free check them out someone in your family may have already done your family history but just use their information as a guide prove every thing that you can they may have made a mistake. you can get free forms from most of the sites to fill out. most of the messege board are free so go look around on them .this month ancestry has free access to their immergration web site take a look at it . most library have access to genealogy web sites so good luck and happy hunting
2006-12-09 12:42:44
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answered by shabella 2
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DNA testing can now locate and pinpoint where exactly ur ancestors originated from to the tribe. A Salt Lake City DNA firm has done that and more with testing, it's great.
2006-12-09 10:55:44
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answered by papabeartex 4
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That might be difficult to do unless your ancestors immigrated from an African country through normal channels and not through the slave trade. If the latter, you may be able to trace back to early slave ancestors and no further because records, as to place of origin, were not kept.
2006-12-09 10:52:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Thare are some laboratories were they take a sample from your genes and compare with genes of several people from several places around the world for research. It will tell you what region from Africa is most likely that your ancestors came from. Be preprared for some surprises, such as long lost genes from Asia, for example. I know people that did it and they had genes from Asia and Native American Indians without having known relatives belonging to those races.
It's cool for curiosity but don't go too crazy about it!
2006-12-09 10:53:36
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answered by ♥ Karen ♥ 4
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The National geographic is doing a dna study.You can get the info from 1 of there mags.Maybe this could help.Good luck!
2006-12-09 10:50:35
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answered by april showers 3
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There is a DNA test you can take that will let you know what area of Africa you descend from and sometimes it can be narrowed down to tribe. It is really cool!
2006-12-09 10:47:25
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answered by April TX 3
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Try ancestry.com
Good luck.
2006-12-09 10:50:51
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answered by spacəmɐn 2
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