can you help me find my family history?

Answer 1

Okay, you are not going to find a complete family history on the web. You might find some of your family lines. However, you have to be very careful not to take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. There are errors in family trees on the internete. Even when you see the same information repeatedly submitted by many different people, that does not guarantee it is correct. Many people are copying without verifying. Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation.

Start with your living family and get as much information as possible, particularly from senior members. Tape them if they will let you. It might turn out they are confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very significant.

Go to your public library and find out what all they have. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can take advantage of. Ancestry.Com has lots of records. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 is not available to the public yet.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons.
In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view. They have never tried to convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard that they have done that to anyone who takes advantage of their resources.

There are websites. Cyndi'slist.Com has a multitude of them.

Don't get too involved in the origin and meanings of surnames. The same surname can come from more than one nationality. Also not everyone with the same surname is necessarily related or share ancestors, even those of the same national origin.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Start with time to read a tutorial/ guide... one of many is at www.rootsweb.com. Some BASIC tips...
Work from yourself backwards, and collect information about known family members. Unless you do this, you will not be certain to have the right families.
VERIFY your facts with documentation. More than one source, when you can. Anything that family tells you is a lead, not a fact until documented.
Don't expect to find live persons online.
Family traditions (oral history) IS OFTEN misleading or wishful thinking. Don't get stuck in stubbornly trying to prove what Aunt Maude said about royal lines or castles. Keep an open mind.
It will NOT all be online, nor will it all be free.
www.cyndislist is a huge collection of genealogy resources, one that I would bookmark.
Instead of looking for the history of the Jones family, be specific about what you want. IE, "need help finding where John Smith, born about 1800, lived in 1850, his wife was Mary Nameunknown". You'll get much better responses.
Oh, yes... if you finish your research in 2 months... you missed out on the fun. It's supposed to be fun, and there's always a new challenge.

Answer 3

How to trace my family tree

1. start with yourself. Birth certificate. It will have the names of parents and ages of the parents and some times where they were from.

2. If parents are still alive ask them questions about there parents.
get the names of there parents.

3.Once you have traced your family back to any one born before 1930"s in America you can find them in the census. It can take you back to the 1850's where they started to put every ones name on the census. make shure you write every thing down. where born and where parents are born. I have found many wives parents because the person next doors was born where she said they came from.

4. Another thing you can do is type on web search is the marrage
john smith-mary jones or john smith birth date
some times other have histories of families .

5. After the 1850's you will have to find county records or cemetery records of the person. In the old days if they had a will it will usualy tell the names of there children and also if they had land in other places.

6. Once you get that far you can go to your neiborhood MOrman church and ask them for help. They have been doing it for many years. and would be glad to help you preceed futher.

Answer 4

Collect all the information you can on your family tree from your relatives.

Then do Google searches for the oldest members of the family. Odds are pretty good that you might find some information on them on line. The exception obviously deals with those who came to America fairly recently; language barriers can be a problem. (For example, my wife's relatives are from the Poland/Ukraine area, but that's a little hard to track down in English.)

Answer 5

do a google search 'genealogy Smith' (or whatever your family name is). You'll be surprised by the number of websites in response. If you think they may have come from France, for example, try 'genealogy Smith France'. If you know the name of a grandfather or great-grandfather, you might start with that.

Good luck !!

Answer 6

Where are you? Uk start with your parents marriage certificate and work backwards.

Site like FreeBMD and familysearch.org are free and very useful.
Other useful ones that you have to pay for are findmypast.com and genereunited.

Answer 7

Some useful sites:

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
http://www.familysearch.org/

Answer 8

a little bit of info would help!!!
i could always just guess if you want..lol

Answer 9

Its BEHIND YOU!!!!!!!