how can i trace my family ancestry- 5 generations backward?

Question

how can i trace my family ancestry- 5 generations backward?
provide me a free website who can do that or a freeware.,?

Answer 1

i have not been able to find any free sites myself
good luck in your search

Answer 2

There are 400,000 free sites.

There is no freeware.

Tracing your tree is about as hard as writing a term paper for a high school history class. That stops most teens. You can do it yourself, or hire someone to do it at $25 - $50 per hour; figure 40 hours unless he/she runs into problems.

While you may be on a genealogy web page, chances are you are not; I'm not, except as "Living Pack", with no dates or places. Most genealogists hide details of living people. That means you have to get back a generation or two by asking your family members and doing research on paper. In the USA, the surest way is to get to 1930, then start looking at census records, which you can do at an LDS FHC.

The gentleman above me gave you a world of links, if you are still interested.

Answer 3

The first thing to do is to start with yourself and work backgrounds. Download and print a five generation ancestral chart from http://familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html. Enter your name in space #1, your fathers name in #2, your mom's name in #3 and so on and so forth. Once you complete this document to the best of your ability, start to interview your parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and other family members to fill in the gaps.

Once you have completed the interview process, then search http://www.rootsweb.com or http://www.cyndislist.com for free records such as census, vital and property records. This should help you complete the ancestral chart.

There is no easy way to research your family history, no magic button you can click. It takes some time and hard work.

Good luck with your search.

Kenyatta

Answer 4

5 generations is about 150 years of records. We'd need to know where you are now, where your family lived 50 years ago, 100 years ago and 150 years ago. There's not likely to be one site with everything waiting for you. But if live in the US and go to a larger library in your county, see if they subscribe to either HeritageQuest or Ancestry.com. If they do, then using your library card you can get full and free access to all of their databases.

But without more information, we can't tell if you'll need records from another country...or maybe 4. That's a one-by-one referral to the right sites for the right ethnic groups.

Answer 5

The best starting point is the known. So start with yourself, your immediate parents then go on to interview them. 5 generations is not so far away. Your parents and grandparents should be familiar with your family tree down to 10 generations.

Answer 6

Good luck! we have no idea how much info is already contained in family members' shoe boxes, but we do know...

"It is much easier to trace 5 generations 'back' than 2 generations forward...."

):)....

Answer 7

the first thing you do is ask the oldest person in your family what they know,then you go to the court house and start going through records,and then you go to cemeteries and verify these records. then expect to spend half your life putting it all together. its a tough job and very time consuming
there is no freeware, ancestry.com

Answer 8

oh theres no shortcuts... and its a painstaking process...

but i found family in america, ireland, canada, new zealand..

google your family name, and start with records from thier parish.

we spent 4yrs, and went searching and we found a church stained glass window, bearing our family name... the church is the oldest religious building that been in constant use..since 1350 (uk)

its weird though, we have rellys in america, who left ireland 100 years before my grandfather was born... and i see teh spitting image of my young brother and dad looking at me...

its good fun... ssome went to australia in chains, some to the new lands of canada and america in boats, as apprentices and eventual masters. our great grandfather made the irish state coach, one wrote the first concise political history of the IRA... my grandad repaired the boilers of the queen mary... he had a workshop on the docks, and my dad worked on the protoype of the concorde and the sea harrier jump jet...

its a small world... youll be amazed at what you can find.

Answer 9

Start out by asking all your living relatives for as much info as they can provide; keep good notes, esp. who provided what information. You can just google names; your name is on the web, and every one else's. Despite the fact that there are people on Yahoo! answers who believe (mistakenly) that you are not in a genealogy web page, believe it, somewhere you ARE.
Try your local library; not only do libraries have genealogical books and periodicals (including the Mayflower Genealogy), but they have access to genealogy sites, such as www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com.
You can google names, you can try the following sites:
Free sites: there are several to choose from. Start with:
http://www.searchforancestors.com/...

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/...

http://www.cyndislist.com/

http://www.geni.com/

Assuming they emigrated from Europe, start with Ellis Island and the Battery Conservancy sites:
http://www.ellisisland.org
http://www.castlegarden.org

For Scotland, check:
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

For ship’s passenger lists, try:
http://www.immigrantships.net/
www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm
www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html
www.immigrantstips.net/
www.searchforancestors.com/passengerlists/
www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/passenger-arrival.html

For those with native American ancestry, try:
http://www.tribalpages.com/
http://www.cherokee-nc.com/geneology.php...
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/herita...

Netherlanders: http://www.genlias.nl

For a fee, try a DNA test:
When you really want to know where your ancestors came from, try such sites as: www.familytreedna.com, dnatribes.com, dnaancestryproject.com, and, of course, the National Geographics Genotype program, https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/geno...
For Jewish ancestry, try:
www.israelgenealogy.com

For people from India, try:
http://www.fibis.org/

Have a look at these sites these are South African ones,
http://genealogy.about.com/od/south_afri...
http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/page2.html....
http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/website...
http://southafricanfamilyhistory.wordpre...

Meaning of names:
http://www.winslowtree.com/surname-meani...

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f...

Here are some general sites with lists of African names:
http://www.swagga.com/fname.htm
http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/afr.php
http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/ba...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/...

Military:
www.military.com
http://www.familymilitaryrecords.com/

http://www.archives.gov/veterans/militar...

http://websearch.about.com/od/peoplesear...

http://genealogy.about.com/b/2007/05/24/...

http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ww1/draft/sea...

Finding live people:
Two good places I use are www.zabasearch.com and www.peoplefinder.com

Other useful sites:
www.nationalobituaryarchive.com
http://www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch/
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
http://zip.langenberg.com/

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welc...

http://www.newspaperarchive.com/
http://ancestryresearchsitereviews.blogs...
http://www.search-background.com

http://www.birthdatabase.com/
http://www.intelius.com/search-summary-o...
peoplesearch.com
smartpages.com. to get to US Search

http://www.intelius.com/search-summary-o...

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/-name-mean...
http://www.netsleuth.com/

http://affiliates.reunion.com/ads/ads/la...

http://www.peoplelookup.com/people-searc...

http://people.yahoo.com/

http://www.addresses.com/

http://websearch.about.com/od/wendyssear...

http://www.anywho.com/

http://www.whowhere.com/

http://www.nola.com/forums/searching/ind...

http://www.77investigators.com/messagebo...

http://www.voy.com/48081/

http://messages.yahoo.com/

http://www.angelfire.com/va3/search/Mess...

http://www.worldvitalrecords.com
http://www.ntis.gov/products/pages/ssa-d...

http://www.search-background.com

Answer 10

Check with the Mormons. This is one thing that they do well.