My grandparents also came from checkoslovakia. Where can I find out about my family tree?

Answer 1

Hey pernix1,

Listen to the advice of the person that told you start with your living family. Do that first.

Then, you can go further by Vital Records. Are your grandparents still alive? If not, then where are there Death Certificates, you can get them. Get their Obituaries too. That will give clues to their location of birth and dates. Then, you can attempt to get Birth records for them.

Be sure to check the Family Search site. The Czech page of Cyndislist has excellent resources.

Be sure to use the GENFORUM too - you can discuss with people interested in the same SURNAMEs

Answer 2

you can start with the relatives who are living and ask them all the information you need about your grandparents. Set up a tree on your computer and fill in every bit of information you hear on them, whether it's birth, death, marriage date, date they arrived in America, date they were naturalized, obituaries or prayer cards, name of churches they attended, where they are buried, where they worked, if they were in the military and which branch, and see if you can contact other family members who might in the past have been interested in genealogy, and ask if your grandparents had a social security number, etc. and list their children, and even write paragraphs (info family tells you).

Then you're ready to start searching the web. Get the census records from the time they arrived (like 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 for them and their children. You can get that on ancestry.com. When you look for their arrival information from Ellis Island or any one of the other ports (now free research until Dec. 31 on ancestry.com) bear in mind that if they were from Czechoslovakia that their home country could be listed as Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Austria or Hungary....so get all that information.

Also check the free social security death index on familysearch.org

have fun, and if you have any questions, just ask.

Answer 3

Go to Ancestry.com they can help you figure out your family tree.

Answer 4

There's a website called ancestry.com, try that.