Genealogy Brick wall?

Question

I came to a complete halt on searching my family history. I have used ancestry.com website and have traced all family members back to their countries of origin. The problem i have is that i cannot continue it further. I have the names of the children born here in America through census records, but do not have the names of their parents. Can someone tell me where else i can find out what the parent's names would be?

i received most of the information through census records where it lists the members of the household and was able to calculate their approximate dob by their age at the time the census was taken. Also in the census it lists where the parents were born, and if it was in the US i was able to located them through other census records. but once it listed Ireland/Scotland/Germany I could not find them.

Answer 1

It depends which country you are talking about the U.K. has extensive online records going back to 1837 when it was compulsory to register, even before this parish records some of which are on line, the later day saints site is also a good reference to use as they try to keep there records upto date in all christian country's. You can also buy census for UK on disc not all of them but certainly from 1831 - 1901 the earlier the more is missing but well worth the investment, from these sources it should be fairly easy to get back to pre 1800's

AJ

Answer 2

The basic rule in genealogy research is that you move from the known to the unknown.

First off, pose a question to yourself that sums up ONE piece of information that you would like to obtain. Such as: what is the parentage of [names of the siblings you mention in your question].

Write down everything you know about them - all the known facts. Even tiny things that you think are not important. Family tradition too - because though it is usually fraught with errors (like a game of 'telephone') there is often a grain of truth in there somewhere (again like 'telephone').

As others have said, you are probably now going to need more than stuff on the internet. As we do not know what time period or national origins or anything about these ancestors, it is hard to help you in a more specific way. But you will need archival records - land records, wills, probate, census maybe - basically things that link the members of families together. You will be looking at researching the family as a whole, rather than one ancestor in a lineal sense, because it is through the web of known proven connections betweeen people that you will place your ancestors in a family group with their parents.

And if we are talking about 17th century immigrants from England or the Netherlands - well, you might not be able to make the leap at all, not with any certainty. Some 'gateway' ancestors are well documented and some have rather dubious and unproven connections to people with similar names in their home country (I know, because I have plenty of ancestors like this!)

Best of luck and do give us some more details if you would like more specific help.

Answer 3

If all children were born in America as you comment...clearly mom and dad were here also at some point in time. What you seem to be saying is that you have not located the children as a family, living with the parents when they were children.
Working from MORE RECENT to later... presumably you have located where the children died? And checked all their death records (certificates would indicate names of the parents).
Sometimes in order to find 1920 (for example) you need to be looking at 1950. If you skipped some of the basics, drop back and review what you have.

Answer 4

Post everything you do know about the people involved...not only the parents, but their children, where they lived, if they moved then where did they go, approximate years, the information (and sources) that you did find. Many times our cumulative knowledge is best tapped when you toss the question on the table and let all of us go to our personal favorite sources. Then we come back with what we're able to find and open you up to new sources that might be a little obscure in most instances, but is exactly what you need in your instance.

Answer 5

You may have exhausted the current online resources. The next step may be to go to the local Mormon family history center. You can request microfilms from many, many countries in the world, where they have gone in and copied records (birth, death, marriage, church records, civil records, etc.).

By the way, have you checked http://www.familysearch.org because there are a lot of international records on there.

Good luck,
Dave
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http://www.familypulse.org

Answer 6

it truly is the only Grace Blake in Baltimore in 1930 who replaced into born interior 5 years of 1917. 1930; Census place: Baltimore, Baltimore (autonomous city), Maryland; Roll: 854; internet site: 12A; Enumeration District: one hundred forty four; image: 970.0. Alexander Blake 38 Gracie Blake 34 Marwood Blake 12 Alexander Blake 14 Herman Blake 5 Lawrence Blake 8 Hilda Blake 15 Grace Blake 11 Lois Blake 7 all and sundry's race is "Neg" (N e g r o, a be conscious Y!A deems offensive adequate to asterisk out), yet they are all born in Maryland or Virginia, no longer SC. There are 4 hundred human beings named "Lula" born interior 5 years of 1901, yet no Lula Blakes, regardless of soundex. it truly is the only Lula Blake who replaced into b. SC in each and every of the u . s . a . in 1920 Pee Dee and Choppee, Georgetown, South Carolina; Roll: T625_1696; internet site: 6A; Enumeration District: seventy 4; image: 855. Mingo Blake 40 3 Pauline Blake 40 Lula Blake sixteen Jeff Blake 14 The family is black, yet they have not moved and sweetness isn't there.

Answer 7

I'm a little puzzled also how you can know they were born USA but not to whom. There are many questions you'd need to answer. When, where, who. Consider also that many came in as illegal immigrants especially through Canada or off the Great Lakes then claimed their children were born in a US State.

Answer 8

If you would like to email me with the information you wish me to find for you, such as the names of the kids and which census forms you have searched, and dates of course, I would be happy to help you out on this one. itsjustme.

Answer 9

Baptisms and Christenings, and also Probates "wills"
Church Records. Good luck in your search.

Answer 10

If you are of Scottish decent you will be able to get marriage certificates, birth certificates, death certificates, wills and more at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

It is a government website but it will cost you money.