2007-10-09 15:05:31 · 6 answers · asked by chrisjonesufos39 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
You should talk to your relatives about your family history. Then go to a public library with a geneaology section and have the reference librarian help you search the census and other places. Mormon Family History Centers are also good places.
2007-10-09 15:08:58 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For another idea - try putting your family surnames into "Google".
For example, there is a guy in Bristol who has his Family Tree on a web site called "Boddy Parts" - his grandmother's Maiden name was Boddy.
Say your surnames were: Mum's parents Higginbottom and Maloney, both from Exeter. Just enter "Higginbottom Family, Exeter" and "Maloney Family Tree, Exeter"
You never know, you could strike lucky.
The other thing, which I don't think has been mentioned, is to join the Family History Society for your area.
A lot of my family came from Bristol, so I am a member of the Bristol Family History Society.
There is a web site for them and a button to click which is labelled "Members' Interests". I can find the names of all the Members researching the same names as me.
Again, you could be lucky and find that someone has already found a lot of information about your family.
After that, I'm afraid it is a lot of steady research as suggested above.
2007-10-10 02:57:52 · answer #2 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to find your family history is to begin with asking your relatives and friends of the family for anything they know. The second thing, in the UK would be to work your way back through collecting birth and marriage certificates. For example, you birth certificate should have your mother's maiden name and your father' name and occupation. From this you can work back to find when they were married. The certificate will have their addresses and the names and occupations of both their fathers. Just keep working back that way until you get to 1901 and you can start looking at various online sites suck as ancestry.
2007-10-10 09:00:13 · answer #3 · answered by proud walker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First and foremost, start with the people who are living. Find out what they know. Talk with aunts and uncles, cousins, and so on - anybody who is part of your family. Get dates, locations, names, memories, stories - it's ALL important. Find out what they remember about people who are no longer living, too. Put all your information into a database that will help you organize it. The Mormon church offers a free one, "Personal Ancestral File," that you can download from their web site (they won't bug you in terms of their religion). Once you have included as much as you can from people who are living, start to search online sites, records, etc., for matching people and events. Computers have revolutionized genealogy in the last two decades, and there are ENORMOUS amounts of data available, as well as innumerable personal genealogical web sites.
Good luck in your search!
http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10151&storeId=10151&categoryId=14000&langId=-1&cg1=13669&cg2=&cg3=&cg4=&cg5=.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default....
http://www.ancestry.com
2007-10-09 22:13:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're not going to find it in a dictionary, that I can tell you.
Edit: To my detractors, the word as written is closer to geology than it is to genealogy, so are you sure?
2007-10-09 22:09:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Do you mean Genealogy, as in family history?
2007-10-09 22:14:45 · answer #6 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋