Geneology search help?

Question

HELP! I have a classroom assignment. Apparently i have to look up and see if i am related to Fidel Castro. I tried googleing it and i cant find anywhere i can do a free search.

ANY HELP.

Person who helps me get results to my question gets 10 points

P.S. Its the Fidel castro in CUBA that i need loo see if i'm related 2

Answer 1

Am I right in assuming that your name is Castro and that you're of Cuban descent? (I don't know why else a teacher would assign you such a question to investigate.)

All I've been able to find is that Fidel's father was named Angel Castro, that Angel's mother's maiden name was Abriz, and that he was born in Spain in 1875 and died, evidently in Cuba, in 1956. I could find nothing about him on Ancestry.com. If he immigrated to Cuba as an adult, there's a good chance that he came alone and that therefore any Cuban named Castro and related to Fidel would be descended from him. Angel did have two sons, Ramon and Pedro Emilio, in addition to Fidel and Raul. Ramon, Fidel's full brother, is still in Cuba; all I could find about Pedro is that he is (or was) the son of Angel's first wife and was brought up by her. There are/were some sisters (one is a half sister), but their descendants wouldn't normally be named Castro. So (whether it's a disappointment or a relief), there aren't very many possibilities for you to be descended from in that family.

Answer 2

Your teacher has asked you to do something with little understanding of the complexity.
Fidel Castro is a public (living) person, as such, his ancestry is not necessarily public record. She is making a false assumption.
Next, YOUR ancestry is not public record either. There is no magic ancestor collection where you can type in your name, and expect to locate both your ancestors AND someone else's. There is no free site where you can expect this to happen.
To determine if there is a relationship, you MUST know who your ancestors are, and compare that to those of Fidel .. in order to learn if there is a common ancestor.
So.. you can bang your head against a brick wall, or tactfully explain to your teacher that the assignment is contrary to accepted genealogical standards. You are more than welcome to print my answer as your source of information. The standard is that living persons have the right to privacy, so your ancestry Or Fidel's will not necessarily be online.

Answer 3

If your teacher actually gave you an assigment like this, she's/he's nuts.

The only way you will know is to trace your ancestry starting with yourself and working back. That might take years.

It might be your teacher found some of her/his family lines on the web and feels like she/he has her/his family tree. Anybody who accepts as absolute fact what they find in family trees on any website, unless they have verified it with docujments, probably doesn't have a very accurate family tree. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when a person sees the same information repeatedly by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is accurate, because of copying without verifying or merging someone else's family tree into theirs. That unfortunately is encouraged by Genealogy.Com.

Answer 4

No what sneak into his (Fidel) bedroom at night and pluck a little bit of his hair. Sneak it back to America Where you can check his DNA. Just Kidding

Answer 5

Your local public library may have free access to Ancestry and maybe Heritage Quest. Call them and ask!

Answer 6

Here's what you do - track your family back - what was your grandmother/grandfathers name and where did they come from and see if your line intersects with Castros - and his should be fairly searchable.