I have to make a family tree but i xant find the info any ideas?

Answer 1

If it is for school, lie. Ask your parents who their grandparents were, then look up people with the same surname on any of the links Rust Skipper gave you and claim them. Keep the ages reasonable. Standard people marry about age 20 / 22, women 2 years younger than the men. Before 1930, people had children about every 2 - 3 years, from marriage until the wife turned 40/45. Keep your "family" in the same shire if you are in the UK, or moving gradually westward in the USA.

Teachers will sometimes give assignments that are ridiculous. It would take an experienced genealogist 60 - 90 days to assemble a well-checked family tree, assuming there were no glitches. Asking a student with no experience to do one in a week is ridiculous.

Answer 2

Hey Stan,

Yes, go get Family Tree software. Then start filling in the generations starting with your own information. You first, then your parents. Birth Dates & Locations, Marriage Dates and locations, where applicable death dates and locations. Collect this information one person at a time. Interview your living relatives for this information. Get wills, pictures, probate, certificates, census records, anything that validates your ancestors (living and deceased). Get them placed into the Tree.

There is free software available from LDS Family Search, and you can get outstanding software for $30.00 or so. Links below. This will get you started. The software also draws the Family Tree for you, showing the connections, after you enter the data.

Some of this software actually does internet searches, and will get family tree branches from other people's stored trees. You have to be careful to validate that type of data, but it may be perfectly acceptable.

Scrutinize each new person in your tree, use VITAL RECORDS, Birth, Marriage, Death, (Wills, probate), and secondary records are acceptable at times, like OBITs. See the Vital Record sites below.

Once you get going on this, you will find that sites like LDS Family Search, and GENFORUM become valuable tools to find information and talk to people (respectively) about mutual interest. Included below are some very good general genealogy sites.

An alternative would be to pay a GENEALOGIST to creat your tree. It is more fun and enriching to create your own.

Some of the sites below are lists of links, the most famous is Cindi's list. Use these when you are feeling like exploring, looking for a special type of record. Cindi allows searching for country or even types of documents. Come back and ask more questions here too.

Answer 3

Talk to your parents and grandparents. They will tell you who your ancestors were. Bring a notebook and a pen or two. It may not hurt to see if you can get photographs.
Next, figure out how to present it. It can look like a tree, or you can make one with lines and bars.
Also, if you know of anyone living around you who's related to you, you could ask for their help.

Answer 4

Try the following links:

http://genealogy.com

http://ancestry.com

Answer 5

I'm sure you are not looking for a humorous response. but really, that's all that comes to my mind. sorry