How to find a geneology???????????

Question

How can you find a geneology of yourself because i can only go back to my great grandpa. Please let me know.

Answer 1

I have found that your county land records/registrar of deeds is a great source, providing you know the names of your parents' parents'parents', etc. Older relatives are a great source of names. I also posted messages on Rootsweb.com and found cousins even my older relatives did not know about. Go for it, the hunt is a real head rush.

Answer 2

You can only find it if someone else has already done the research for you. But if you're the first person in you're family who is interested in the family's history, then you'll have to dig in and do the research for yourself. Start by asking the older members of your family to help you organize all the lines of the tree and fill in everything they know. After that, you need to research one person at a time, being patient, and filling in all layers of your tree carefully so that you don't mix up 2 people with the same or similar names.

Genealogy is very addictive, and once you do dig into you'll love what you find.

Answer 3

Its an urban legend (false) to think that you can just find your family history online. Living persons are not normally online, since it puts them at risk of privacy invasion.
That is different from finding historical records of your ANCESTORS, if they are no longer alive. But you have to think in terms of individual persons.
Most persons think about family history in terms of what they can remember. IE your mom remembers her grandfather (your gr grandfather). The whole trick is NOT relying on memories, but finding documents and records to make the trail. For example.. your birth certificate is a record of you and who your parents are. Now, think about finding RECORDS for past persons. If gr grandpa is dead... he will have a death certificate that should name his parents. Depending on his age and location... there may also be a birth certificate for him.
The process of genealogy is research, not "pre packaged". For the ones who are still living.. they need to have or provide the records that won't be online.
http://www.cyndislist.com/beginner.htm

Answer 4

Ask all your living relatives to get as much info as possible. Write it all down, including who said what. From there,
as to searching, try these:
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/

If 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

Don't forget, use your local library. Ours (a small one, yet) has www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com, as well as periodicals, books and guidance from an experienced genealogist.

Keep good notes on where you find what: sources are very important.

Answer 5

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