like a different country/nationality then mine?
2007-07-05 14:50:00 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
The best source of answers for this question is your family members. Ask the older generation, grandparents, great aunts and uncles. Good luck in your search for your roots.
2007-07-07 04:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Information seen in family trees on any website must be taken as clues as to where to get the documentation. Even if you see the same information over and over by different submitters, a lot of copying is being done which is not good family history.
There are errors in trees and a lot of people are copying errors.
Start with your family, get as much information as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. Sometimes it might turn out they are confused about some information. However, what might seem to be insignificant ramblings and story telling might be very significant.
Go to your public library and check the genealogy section and see what all they have. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com which has a lot of records and is obtaining more all the time. They have all the censuses through 1930. The 1940 is not available to the public yet.
Call your nearest Mormon Church and find out if they have a Family History Center, and if so the hours for the general public.
They have records on people all over the world, not just on Mormons. They are very helpful and will not bother you about religion.
When you are at the genealogy section of your library and the Family History Center, you will be able to talk with people who will probably give you some good ideas and advice.
Death certificates and applications for Social Security numbers have the name and place of birth of both parents. I find the application for a social security number is more trustworthy as the person applying for social security number most likely knew where their parents were born. The death certificate depends upon the widow or widower remembering where his/her parents were born, or one of the children remembering where their grandparents were born.
Don't get too concerned in trying to determine the origin of a surname. Just trace the individuals, your parents, your grandparents, then your great grandparents etc.
Good Luck!
2007-07-05 15:27:39 · answer #2 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are hundreds of websites that are devoted to helping you find your anscestors. You have to take a lot of time and be very patient though. You also might have to do a lot of digging into old archives, but the information is out there. Go to the www.lds.org (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Website). And go under Family Search, a quick way to do it to is www.familysearch.org. The best thing about this, is that it is free. They even have a program called PAF that you can download to your computer that allows you to store all of your family information and present it in a family tree or stuff like that. There are other websites, but you will have to pay for them. The Church also has classes on geneology as well. If you go to any LDS chapel that has a family history center, they are more than willing to help, you can get that information from the website as well.
2007-07-05 16:19:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Humans have roamed since time immemorial.
Politics and history have altered national boundaries for as long as there have been nations.
Don't get suckered into to the DNA projects that will tell you about where on this planet some million+plus hunter-gatherer ancestors chunked rocks 10,000 and more years ago. That's a useless waste of money.
The normal way is to research your own ancestors back one generation then yet another over time, history, and geography.
2007-07-05 15:20:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you will get a good history book, you will find that, of all the peoples on earth, all have migrated. That means, no matter what country you are from, your ancestors, somewhere down the line, came from a different country than you.
The best means of determining this is to contact one of the websites for DNA analysis. There are two basic tests: yDNA (for father to father, on back) and mtDNA (for mother to mother, on back). The one I used was www.familytreedna.com. Another one, mentioned in Fortune magazine, was www.23andme.com. Still another is www.africanancestry.com.
Family Tree sent me a kit with 2 swabs in it. I rubbed the inside of my cheeks, sent the kit back, and got the results in weeks (in paper form, but it is also on the web).
My ancestors came from all of Europe, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, islands around Great Britain, the Canary Islands, islands in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Pacific, several Asian countries, Russia, Siberia, American Indians, Inuits, Eskimos...
Try it, you'll like it.
2007-07-05 15:02:41 · answer #5 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you find out information about some of your deceased relatives, you can take a look at the (large) free database at www.familysearch.org . I've found a lot of information about my family on there.
2007-07-05 14:58:02 · answer #6 · answered by Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start with your parents. Ask questions. Get copies of birth certificates. Then move on to grandparents. Get copies of birth certificates. Check family bibles for information.
2007-07-05 14:53:22 · answer #7 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
First try to get as much information as you can about your family history, then the following web sites maybe of use
www.familysearch.com
www.rootsweb.com
www.ellisisland.org
Hope this helps Good Luck and Good Hunting
2007-07-06 07:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by Benthebus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It tells you their place of birth on all the census returns, no matter which country they live in.
2007-07-05 14:55:23 · answer #9 · answered by itsjustme 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋