i am starting to put togther a family tree. How do i find out the names of my great grandmothers brothers and sisters. There were at least 10 of them and i know the names of about half of them. To find out the rest do i search the census? is it necessary to get copies of their birth certificates? nb. they were from northern ireland.
2007-07-07 07:07:55 · 7 answers · asked by sprite 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
It is ALL about census records, and other historical records!
You might get lucky and others may have done some work on your family tree. Google family members names ie. "Mary Smith" + "family tree"
Build your family tree on line.
You can do this for free on:
You can do this for free on:
http://www.tribalpages.com/
Start with yourself, then attach living family members.
Find out all you can about you family from living membes, then attach it to your tree.
Now it is time to look for historical records and attach the info to your tree:
Free sites:
http://www.usgenweb.com/
http://www.rootsweb.com/
http://www.ukgenweb.com/
ect.
The time may come when you want more information than you can find for free. When this happens you can back up your "tribalpage" tree to your computer on a "GEDCOM" file
You can then go to (I think it is the best payed site)
http://www.ancestry.com/
upload your "GEDCOM" file
and start to work!
you might need to make a few ajustments to your tree to make it look better.
2007-07-07 07:41:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Birth certificates are a relatively new requirement. Parish records go back, in some cases, to the 1500's.
There are hundreds of ways to get names. There are 250,000 sites devoted to genealogy on the web. Exactly half are below average, and the other half are above. If you search the resolved Q in this category you will see that questions like yours come up every day. Look at the answers to those Q and you'll find hundreds of links and tips.
In your case the UK's Free BMD site would be a great place to start. I don't have the link handy because I'm away from home, but it is in the resolved Q.
Best of luck!
2007-07-07 07:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately a lot of the Irish records were destroyed in the potato famine and there is a lack of records for Ireland. You could try building a tree on genes reunited- it will cost a tenner. The tribalpages as suggested before is fab for personal use but i have never had anyone contact me with information from it- i get all my contacts via genes. If you put the information you already have on there then the chances are that someone will come forward in time with more info for you.
2007-07-09 03:39:35 · answer #3 · answered by Ellie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.ancestry.co.uk the free bmd section only covers England and Wales, I think your best bet is to go with the Census, these are currently available on the above site. We only have 1841-1901 available to the public, do you have membership to the site, if not if you would like to email me, with all of the details you have starting with your g/gran any dates, places, names anything like that. I will find what I can for you and then email you back, and I search for free.
2007-07-07 08:00:41 · answer #4 · answered by itsjustme 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Census would be a good start if all you want is manes and approximate dates of birth. Getting all their birth certificates will be expensive, and isn't really going to tell you much.
2007-07-07 07:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
web pages last name and search and go to the follow up
2007-07-07 07:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try familysearch.com
2007-07-07 19:19:03 · answer #7 · answered by cowgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋