Are you into your family history?

Question

Did you know right now you can go to www.ancestry.com and find out a family members record of military service and other information. I love that site. I am the process of finding out about my ancestry on my father's side and it is so exciting. I am 25 and find so interesting.

I have gone to www.geni..com and I love that site. Check it out.

Answer 1

My grandpa has done a book of genealogy on both my mom's and my dad's side of the family. I think it's pretty cool.
I am also 25.

Answer 2

Well yes I've been doing my family genealogy for 15 yrs its exciting and frustrating at times ancestry.com is nice but its not the whole cake. Alot takes many hours of driving,flying and digging to find the records and documents that prove your line or theories. Ancestry is great for census reports and some of there military records are okay at least they point you towards were you need to focus your attention on getting the actual Military records copied or Pension records copied at the National Archives.I wish they had a better index for Probates but that would take away money from other places that rely on this funding.you sound like you have the bug. Just remember slow is better patience always and its nothing without Documentation.

Answer 3

Yes, I am into family history. I use ancestry.com, but find so many inaccuracies. In one situation, they claimed that one of my ancestors was born in New York in 1590! That's incredulous. I find one tree that says one thing and another that says something else.
However, if you consider the powers of 2 (you know, every one has two parents, each parent had 2 parents, etc.), you will soon figure that by the time you go back about 30 generations, it would require more people than are alive on the earth today. Which means that your ancestors (and everyone else's) married relatives, such as first cousins (and even closer), uncles marrying nieces, etc. At about the year 1000, there were only about 275,000,000 people WORLDWIDE; at the time of Christ, about 200,000,000 people; in about 1000 BC, only 50,000,000 people world wide.
I doubt if most genealogy books are much more accurate, but if you find several different souces that say about the same thing, then it is probably fairly reliable.
Remember, required public records began only just before the Civil War; the U.S. started records before England, France, Germany and Spain, so records are only as accurate as the Church or family registry made them.

Answer 4

Yes, I like Ancestry.Com for the records it has obtained and I believe they are trying to get more.

Now information in the family trees submited on any website must be taken as clues not as fact as most is not documented. Even when you see the same information over and over, a lot of copying is being done.

Answer 5

Yes, very much. But may I make a suggestion? Don't just learn facts about the family but who they were as people (personalities, issues) and what they did.

Not only is this fascinating, but it will tell you about why your family is the way it is and how they may have raised you, and what mistakes you can not make.

Good luck

Answer 6

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