Is there s way to trace back and find your answers online, without having to pay-my dad won't?

Question

I tried asking but they refuse to go in detail about their past i only know about my dads dads dads, and i dont know a lot about my mothers side since she died. i want to figure it out on my own. ?What should I do? Is that even possible cuz I dont think it is.

Answer 1

Good Luck. Doing your own research would be INCREDIBLY difficult if you don't want to pay any money. Believe me, I've tried. This is the kind of thing that you might have to hold off on until you yourself can afford a professional.

Answer 2

The answer just above me, from Shirley T, is the best you've gotten so far.

You won't find your mother's parents on-line, in all probability. You'll need her birth certificate, marriage license, death certificate, SSN Application, obituary, cemetery records or funeral home records for that. You might find them in the society page, if they ran an article on her wedding in it.

Obituaries and wedding stories are free but you have to look them up on microfilm in the library. (You have to get to the library, too; if she died in Winnemucca and you live in Chicago, that can get expensive.) Official records will cost $5 to $35, depending on where you live and which one you want. Some funeral homes and some cemeteries will tell you some information over the telephone. When I write to one or the other I enclose a $5 check for the staff donut fund and a stamped, self-addressed envelope.

Your father may be hiding something, or he may not like you, or he may not be interested. I hope it is the last one. The other two have happened.

Answer 3

www.rootsweb.com is free as are
www.familysearch.org
www.accessgenealogy.com
www.genealogy.com
http://genforum.genealogy.com (can look through Message Boards to find others looking for the same people you are)
www.gencircles.com

Ask ANYBODY you can think of on your Mom's side about names and dates, and go from there. If you know your Dad's side, do the same. For instance, my Mom didn't know anything but her grandfather's name. I found him online and traced the family name back to 1700 so far in England, but it goes clear back to before William the Conqueror invaded in 1066 (there is even an entire town in Shropshire County, England with their name!!). About 2-3 years ago, we found out what part of this small cemetery in NW Missouri that her grandfather was buried in, and if I'd not found out the family history, we'd have never known that HIS parents and a brother were buried in the SAME cemetery, about 50-100 feet apart. Keep the faith. You can do it--it just takes time. If you need help, send me an email. :)

Answer 4

Well, if there are any family member with informtion see what you can get.

Go to your public library and find out what all they have in the genealogy section. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can utilize. Ancestry.Com has all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet.
They have U.K. censuses also.

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 at a nominal fee.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard of that happening to anyone else that has used their resources.

Good Luck!

Answer 5

try going to your family name and add .com to the end

If that doesn't work, search your last name and see if there are any places where your family tree (full or partial) is listed.

Sometimes even having only part of the info will help you do the rest of the tracing on your own.

You can also use public libraries for this task, they have resources that are not on the internet

Answer 6

go to the city that they were born in or get married..

Answer 7

Jeezly Crow. What kind of answers are you looking for?