Ancestors????

Question

I have this report on finding my heritage/ ansestors it is due on monday, and i need a website that can give me list of my "family tree" and "heritage" if yo uknow of any PLEASE post it





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Answer 1

By Monday? Start by talking to your living relatives to get names, addresses, etc.
Try these websites:
Free sites: there are several to choose from. Start with:
http://www.searchforancestors.com/...

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...

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/

Assuming they emigrated from Europe, start with Ellis Island and the Battery Conservancy sites:
http://www.ellisisland.org
http://www.castlegarden.org


For Scotland, check:
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/


For ship’s passenger lists, try:
http://www.immigrantships.net/
www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm
www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html
www.immigrantstips.net/
www.searchforancestors.com/passengerlists/
www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/passenger-arrival.html


For those with native American ancestry, try:
http://www.tribalpages.com/

For a fee, try a DNA test:
When you really want to know where your ancestors came from, try such sites as: www.familytreedna.com, dnatribes.com, dnaancestryproject.com, and, of course, the National Geographics Genotype program, https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/geno...
For Jewish ancestry, try:
www.israelgenealogy.com
Have a look at these sites these are South African ones,
http://genealogy.about.com/od/south_afri...
http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/page2.html....
http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/website...
http://southafricanfamilyhistory.wordpre...

Meaning of names:
http://www.winslowtree.com/surname-meani...

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f...

Here are some general sites with lists of African names:
http://www.swagga.com/fname.htm
http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/afr.php
http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/ba...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/...


Finding live people:
Two good places I use are www.zabasearch.com and www.peoplefinder.com

Don't forget, use your local library. Ours (a small one, yet) has www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com, as well as periodicals, books and guidance from an experienced genealogist.

Keep good notes on where you find what: sources are very important.

Good luck!

Answer 2

People on this board are flabbergasted that there are teachers who expect their students to come up with a family tree or their heritage in such a short time.

Family research takes time and must be documented.

You probably won't find your family tree on any website. You might find some of your family lines. However, you cannot take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is submitted by folks like you and me and mostly not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, that is no guarantee it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. The information should be used as clues as to where to get the documentation.

Talk with your living family, particiuarly your senior members like grandparents, great aunts and uncles, elderly cousins and get as much information from them as possible. I believe that will be the best you can do by Monday.

Also see the link below from the most prestigious genealogical society in the U.S., The National Genealogical Society.

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerpsst.cfm

There are 2 free sites you can check into.
Rootsweb and FamilySearch.org (LDS site)

Answer 3

Lie.

Idiot teachers assign this all the time. Genealogy is a hobby, like fly fishing. Asking kids who have never done it to come up with a report is like asking high school students who have never fished to head out to a fly-fishing stream and come back with enough trout to feed a party of 20.

Either spend a couple of hours with your grandparents and do a REALLY good job about their lives and times, and don't go any further back, or pick some of the links others have given you, find people who share your surname and claim them as ancestors. As long as your "family" keeps about 30 years between generations (someone born in 1880 should start having kids about 1900 and stop about 1920) and keep the "family" moving west (Virginia -> Tennessee -> Arkansas -> California), no one can tell they are not really yours.

I have done genealogy for many years. if I was a fly fisherman I could probably catch enough trout to feed a party of 20, but I'd have to go out a couple of times and freeze my catch each time to accumulate the filets. If I had to find someone's ancestors it would take me a month to do a decent job. I am not offering; I am estimating the amount of time it would take a skilled amateur.

You can print this off and put it on your teacher's desk if you feel brave. If you don't feel brave, put it there before class.

Ted Pack
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Answer 4

Bad news, unless someone else has already researched your family tree you aren't going to find it on the web. The best thing to do is to interview your parents and grandparents and take notes about their memories of their parents and grandparents. Draw your family tree from what they tell you. Most quality websites for research have some sort of fee involved. There are some free ones like Rootsweb.com and USGenWeb.com. the biggest one is http://www.familysearch.org (the Mormon LDS library). These all have lots of information, but they won't have your specific family tree. But, they may have pieces of it that you can fit together based on what you find out from your parents and grandparents. People spend years researching their family trees.

Answer 5

If you would email me your Grandfather or great grandfather's name I would be glad to look it up on Ancestry.Com for you. This is a site that you must pay for but I already belong to it so it's free to me. My email is [e-mail]