buckner family search /// can you help?

Question

i was orphaned when i was 6 ,my folks were killed in a house fire and i don't know any of my dads family . i have searched all the family roots search sights and did find out that my grandmother once lived in ST.LOUIS ,MO. ...and he had a sister that lived in kankakee , IL. but i have yet to find them

my uncle told me that my grandfather movied to eugen or.

i have names ,birth dates and death certificates but but cant get past that.i no my moms family ,but i cant find any of my dads family ,its like there was nothing befor my grand father.and what ever brothers and sisters he had ,they dont show up on any thing.

and i live in missouri and im the only Buckner in my county ,there are only 5 others in the region ,

Answer 1

Sounds like you are working to locate siblings of your father (parents), and those may be living. So it is relatively recent in terms of genealogy.
I used the social security death index, to find Buckner who died in Or, but whose social security card application was filed in Missouri, and came up with 4 results. I can't say that one is your grandfather or not, or even that he is now dead. All of that is depending on how old you are, your dad was, your grandfather was.
Once you determine if grandpa was born prior to 1930, you can pick up the line using census records. Same for grandma. If they both were born after 1930, then you have to have more details about their ages, and where they may or may not have died.

Answer 2

You really need to get records. Get a copy of your parents' death certificate and even their birth certificates. These should give you their parents' names including their mother's maiden names. The death certificate and also the applications for social security numbers(at least the ones I have seen) will give you the parents' places of birth.

In addition, you might get your grandparents death and birth certificates. Now it is according to when they were born or died. Most governing bodies(states, counties, cities) did not start recording vital information until the first quarter of the 20th century. Even after they did, a lot of people who were born at home or died at home did not get recorded. In Texas, they started recording vital information in 1903, but it wasn't made a law that it had to be sent in to the state until after WWII.

Also each state has it own laws as to who and when a person can get birth and death certificates.

Before they were recorded by governing bodies, you would have to turn to churches for baptistms, marriages and deaths.

You can't rely soley on websites. Also information seen in family trees on any website, free or paid must be taken as clues as to where to get the documentation not as fact. Most of the information is not documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, a lot of people copy without verifying.

Another thing to consider is not everyone with the same surname shares ancestors of that surname. You might say that they don't come from the same root person of their surname. Surnames did not come into existence until the last melinnium. When people took surnames, it was not impossible for legitimate sons of the same man to have different surnames, still they each shared their surname with others with whom they were not related.

See the link below from the National Genealogical Society.

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

Answer 3

http://genforum.genealogy.com/buckner/
and
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.buckner/mb.ashx

are both devoted solely to the Buckner surname. They are smaller and slower than here but much more focused. Even so, you generally don't find much about people who were born after 1920 or so on genealogy sites, unless it is an obituary or death record.

You really need your parents' birth, marriage or death certificate. Any of them should tell you their parents' names, although the death certificates may not.

Eight facts help people help you:

Person's name (Maiden name, for women)
Birth date & place
Marriage date & place
Death date & place
Spouse's name (maiden name, for wives)

If you post on either forum above, the more of those 8 you can find and put into your post, the better. HOWEVER, don't put dates and places for living people, as that violates their privacy.

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Answer 5

Buckner's a pretty common name... are you sure everyone on here knows specifically which Buckner family you're talking about... might want to clarify... not to be an a$$...