any free genealogy sites?
i wanna know! i tried so many searches
thanks
mel
2007-12-18 08:32:22 · 9 answers · asked by . 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
You could just ask her
2007-12-18 08:39:30 · answer #1 · answered by Corey D. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What´s her name?
2007-12-21 09:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by Silvestre 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your grandmother was alive in 1930 or earlier, and if she lived in the US, you can search for her in the US census. For most years, starting in 1930 and working backwards to at least 1880, the census asked where a person was born, in terms of a US state or a non-US country.
The online sites with the US census are not free, but many public libraries have subscriptions to them. Ask your library is it has a subscription to either or both ancestry.com and heritagquest.com.
The Latter-Day Saints have a website with a free index to the 1880 census, but I forget if it shows the birthplace. Try it at www.familysearch.org -- click on research, then on census.
Not everyone in a country is of the same ethnic background (think of the US) so finding the country she was born in may not help you if you are really trying to identify an ethnicity. But it can be a good first step.
2007-12-19 18:00:00 · answer #3 · answered by MarianariaBibliotecaria 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
VERY common... where a person comes from and where a name comes from, are very frequently different.
www.cyndislist.com is a collection of thousands of genealogy resources. The trick is knowing what you need, per an individual, a place, a time. Breaking your research into thinking about an INDIVIDUAL person and their specific facts will get you much further than looking for vague information about a surname.
2007-12-18 17:20:11 · answer #4 · answered by wendy c 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Then again, some names are native to a particular country that sound like they came from elsewhere. For example, Patillo and Pollock are Scottish names.
2007-12-18 16:47:39 · answer #5 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's the name? Someone here should know. You could always google the name.
2007-12-18 17:03:53 · answer #6 · answered by Orla C 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Trying to research your family history based on the origin of surnames will get you absolutely no where. It does not work that way.
2007-12-18 18:15:33 · answer #7 · answered by Annabelle 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
to add to Evie's post, Costello and Cusack are Irish names.
2007-12-18 16:58:07 · answer #8 · answered by Shirley T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you gave us her name we might have the answer..
2007-12-18 16:40:48 · answer #9 · answered by silver44fox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋