How can I trace my ancestry if I was born in another Country?

Answer 1

try writing to relatives if any in the area or try the local consulate, persons in charge of records. Try rootsweb message boards, genforum message boards for the area you want. Also try under your surname or the surname your looking for

Answer 2

I agree with fasteddie...

And on my own i'd say, "use the internet, just like i did". There's many resources out there online, and some good ones were suggested. It doesn't matter what country you were born in, if you can speak and read the language of the other country it might make it easier for you to research your family there, but even if you can't, there's other online resources that will translate pages for you!

Talk to All of your relatives, if possible, and gather all the information you can, so you know what you have and what you still need to find out Before you go looking online! And keep track of who you've talked to and what you've found. This will save you a Lot of time in the future, so you don't have to backtrack.

Good luck!

Answer 3

That would depend on the country, I am UK based and when I started I sent letters to everyone with my surname in the UK who were in the phone book, most replied, and yes all are related at some point.


I tried a similar thing when I found the surname in Canada and the United States with limited success as there postal address is not always the one in the phone book.

If you are looking into your ancestry then start here http://www.familysearch.org/ if you need more detailed help then we would need to know what Country you are looking at.

Good luck and good hunting

Answer 4

www.ancestry.com and most of the others list persons from all over Europe, the Middle East and some from other parts of the world. You can access some of these sites from your local library; ours has both ancestry and www.heritagequest.com. So, it depends upon what country you were born in.
Also, libraries carry a lot of genealogical books and periodicals; as most genealogy traces back to Europe from the states, you have a good chance of finding things in the library.
Of course, depending upon which country, you could contact whatever govenmental agency regulates birth/death certificates and go from there.