i need help find my heritage?

Question

my name is Michael Phipps. i need help finding my heritage. ive been tol im mainly irish mexican and german but i wsant to no for my self. any info that will help guide me will be much appricheated thank you and God bless

Answer 1

First of all talk with your parents, or grandparent get marriage certificates, death certificates, census reports, probates, land grants, funeral records, cemetery listings and start piecing together your family history. These sites should help but always verify any information that is researched by other people.Good luck with your search

http://www.ancestry.com/home/mbDefault.aspx
http://www.familysearch.org/
http://www.rootsweb.com/
http://genealogy.com/index_r.html

Answer 2

There are a couple of good ways to get started. First is to get the names of your ancestors that lived in the 1930's. The 1930's is the last US federal census to be indexed. They will release the 1940's soon. If you can find relatives that lived in the 1930's you can go to many free and one good (ancestry.com) web site and look up your relatives. There are alot of hints in the census to tell you who they were, where they lived, were born, and what they did for a living.

I am very happy to see that people are still interested in heritage.

Answer 3

Information found in family trees on the websites must be seen as clues not as fact. Most of it is not documented and even if you see the same infomation from different people submitted over and over, a lot of copying is being done.

You first must get as much information from your family, particularly your senior members as possible, before you start your search.

Answer 4

Talk to your parents. Find out where they were born and send for a copy of their birth certificates. Then send for copies of your grandparents birth certificates. Keep going back as far as you can. It will cost some money for the certificates.

You might also want to check public libraries that have the census information.

Answer 5

Learn all you can from your living elders of full names, dates and places of births, marriages and deaths - as far back as anyone recalls. Enter the data onto genealogy software for best organization so you know what you know and don't know, what you've documented and haven't.

You didn't say where you and your family live, so online resources I suggest will have to be general unless you edit your post to tell more. familysearch.org, rootsweb.com, ancestry.com will give you a good beginning online.

Answer 6

OK well get ahold of a university bc they are always looking for someone to do the tests on or volenteer to help for the experiance

Answer 7

Try www.ancestory.com

Answer 8

try to ask ur family.