How can I find the names of my great grandparents?

Question

Other than asking my grandparents, because they're dead. I'm trying to do a family tree, and I don't know how to go any farther back than I already have (my grandparents). I don't want to have to pay websites to find this out for me - there's got to be some way to find this information out for free. Any tips?

Answer 1

Free sites:

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=27399&o_lid=27399

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/
http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/

http://www.cyndislist.com/

Answer 2

Best Grandparent Names

Answer 3

Grandmothers: Ellen Josephine "Nellie" Alice Purnethia Treasa Mae Helen Irene Sylvia Kathryn Other older female relatives: Mary Jane Margaret Ellen Agnes Marion Eleanor Irene Hildur Dorothy Grandfathers: John Paul Beyrl Leslie Other Older Male Relatives: John Donnel Harold Arnel Leonard Wallace Victor Oscar

Answer 4

Either get copies of your grandparents death certificates, or check the census records (every decade after 1850 has all family members listed and up to 1930 they are available to the public).

Try rootsweb.com for good free info. Or your library probably has the census free.

Good luck :)

Answer 5

GRANDPARENT's birth records. Should be birth certificates. Marriage docs (sometimes) and DEATH certificates.

We started precisely like this and found out a whole lotta stuff.

Answer 6

If your parents don't know and you don't have any family records in your house (bibles, memoirs, pictures, etc.), you have a couple options:

1. Try getting a copy of your grandparents' obituaries, death certificates, etc. You may have to pay for these records, however.

2. Depending on when they lived, you may be able to track them in the Census (1930 is the most recent publically available one in the U.S., 1911 in Canada and the U.K.). The easiest way to do this is through the pay-site ancestry - but many libraries have a free subscription (ask yours). You can also get the microfilmed records and search through them (this is free, but tedious and very time-consuming, particularly if you don't know an exact place and exact names).

Good luck.

Answer 7

I would first try to ask my parents what the name of their grandparents are. Most people know the names of their grandparents. If they don't know, ask your aunts and uncles. It is likely that one of them was the informant on one or more of their death certificates. If that doesn't work. I would order the birth certificates of my grandparents if you know where they were born. That would definitely list the name of the parents, unless your great grandparents were born before births were recorded, which is possible. My great grandfather was born in 1867 in ohio, the year that birth certificates supposedly started, yet I cannot locate his birth record.

Another avenue, would be to post a question on here with all of the information I know on my grandparents (since they are deceased) and see if any of us can locate their names using the census records and other records available on Ancestry. There are quite a few of us, that don't mind doing lookups if we have an adequate amount of information to start us off. Take care. I hope this helps.

Answer 8

go to county records, death certicates, birth records (your parents), family bible/ or old deeds?

Answer 9

girl ask ur parent if the r alive if not ask syblings