My GGraddfather changed his name from Tamsey or Tamzey.He was born in Slobokdka,Lithuania. The name he took was Freed. He married Sara Block or Black. Arrived in America from So Africa in approx. 1908-1912. His first name was David
2007-01-05 04:04:42 · 4 answers · asked by jarringg 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
The first step is to talk with your grandparents and their siblings about your lineage. Visit cemeteries that you know have interred some of your ancestors and extract what information you can from their tombstones.
The best genealogical repository known on earth today is maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). If you know a Mormon, ask to be taken to one of the Family Centers of the stake to which he or she belongs. There, you can have at your fingertips tons of information pertaining to your surname.
The Family Center assistants can probably supply you with some family sheets to begin filling out and that would be a great help to you.
Genealogy is vastly important today as it was prophesied by the Prophet Elijah when "he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse" (Malachi 4: 6).
Good luck with your quest. Be persistent.
2007-01-05 04:19:31 · answer #1 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And what about biological siblings (from one or both same bio parents)? How come they can't be part of the picture. It is certainly more accurate that the adoptive family's information. No, it isn't fair but my experience with it with our eldest when he had to do it was they just don't consider it. It's not excluded on purpose...it's ignorance. He filled in the info as per our family but I put a note in there that this was not the biological lineage. Truth is, HE wanted it to be our family on the project so I tried to balance that at the time. I don't want to undermine his definition of mom and dad etc... We speak about his first family regularly and whenever that becomes a highlight, we go with it. Like when he tells people he has three moms and three dads. Bio, foster, adoptive. It was his project. We did it his way, again, with the caveat to the teacher.
2016-03-29 09:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by Cheryl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way is to give a professional genealogist $20,000, then set sail for Tahiti in your 50-foot schooner and an all-girl crew. Come back in 2 months and see how the professional has done.
If you are not rich, you'll have to do the work yourself, which is just that - work. It is not rocket science; if you can do a history term paper, you can trace a family tree.
2007-01-05 08:33:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Seems like you are off to a good start, birth and death records as well as naturalization papers are all important to help you on your journey. Simple key word searches can help too, depending where you live you can get much help from books in print on your family at a decent library.
I found a book that was done on mine and it opened up lots of information.
2007-01-05 15:59:51 · answer #4 · answered by Kell 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋