Genealogy?

Ester Bryand: In a down and dirty nutshell.. you work from yourself, backwards (always), and from the beginning, use documentation to verify your information. Someone else's work is probably good.. but it is not a record. It will not all be online.Start by making a list of yourself and your basic facts, and use your own records to 'prove' it. (yes, I know.. you know the facts, but get into the habit of documenting, from the get go). Next, do the same for parents, and grandparents. When you start bumping into the unknowns or gaps.. analyse where the record may be to fill that in. Not only will the records 'verify', they also will have leads on the next step. WHERE those records are, is unique, and dependent on the person/time/place. The more you tell us about what you have, the better our odds to help you find it. And, you have found us, right? Mentors on call. The fun part is that you'll get a multitude of tips, and make friends as well....Show more

Ramon Dahlhe! imer: The most popular hobby world wide right now is genealogy. People want to find out what their ahnentafel is (ahnentafel is a word from German basically meaning "your ancestors". In this modern world, people have lost their connections and feel lost. This is a major reason why people want to do their family trees, or their "pedigree", to have a sense of who they are.To start with, ask all your living relatives for as much information as they can provide. Using notes, you can go to your local library and start checking. Our small town's library has a genealogy section with web connections to both www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com, periodicals, books and a volunteer to help people.If going to the library is inconvenient, you can check these websites: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.family! search.org/ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... http://www.cyndislist.com/ http://www.geni.com/There are many other genealogy websites, some of which allow a limited amount of research for free or offer a free trial (be sure to cancel or you will be charged). Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, based upon origins, ship registers, etc.Have fun and good luck!...Show more

Herma Ellebrecht: I started by gathering as much info as I could from older family members and then joined Ancestry.com.Don't expect good research to be totally free.

Lizzette Wendroth: I comprehend the place you're coming from besides the shown fact that, you're using mortal genealogical situations to a Supernatural Being, and the residences of the supernatural. organic Holy Spirit would not very own a corporal physique, it is omniscient, all-powerful and omnipresent. in this context Jesus descended from the Holy Spirit or extremely God the daddy; (God the daddy (author) God the Son ! (Savior) God the Holy Spirit) this could be a rely of and reliant on, the Holy Trinity a secret the human techniques has no longer the skill to comprehend. Mary bore the child Jesus for the period of the skill of what's stated as the stainless theory, back a supernatural secret no longer certain by utilising genealogical or mortal territories. Joseph replaced into no longer Jesus's organic and organic father; Joseph replaced into the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. i do no longer discover your question a waste of time, the hunt for theTruth, nor the solutions. in my view it's time properly spent, and maximum surely a fashion of acquiring expertise and/or expending expertise. God bless....Show more

Chris Coggins: First thing, get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. It might turn out they are confused on some things, but what might seem to be insignificant ramblings and story telling! might be very significant. Ask if any of your family has any old fami! ly bibles. Ask to see and make copies of birth, marriage and death certificates. Also depending on the faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates can have parent information.You start with yourself and work back and document as you go back.Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com of which you can avail yourself. Ancestry.Com has lots of records. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They also have the U.K. censuses.Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The information is submitted by folks like you and me and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different subscribers on the same people that is no guarantee it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. Use the information as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.A F! amily History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon)Church has records on people all over the world, but you need to call and find out their hours for the general public. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else either that has used their resources.While you are at the genealogy area of your library and the Family History Center, you will probably have an excellent opportunity of talking with other researchers and sharing information and experiences is how most people learn.FamilySearch.org (LDS site) and Rootsweb have excellent lessons on how to do genealogy and they are both free....Show more

Talisha Digrande: Check out Ted Pack's website (he is a Top Genealogy Answerer) . When I was starting my research, I ! wish I had these guidelines to help me.Great advise with detailed, easy! to follow instructions.http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html...Show more

Bernie Cerra: Ancestry.com is a good source. Its expensive if you sign up for it yourself, but most public libraries have subscriptions to it, so you could access it for free that way. Talk to older relatives about what they remember and also try to see if any of them have kept old letters or other documents that might mention names of people or places where your ancestors were from. You can glean quite a bit from some of these old documents.Rootsweb.com is a good place to start too. It has a searchable database of family trees that other users have posted. These can be quite useful and extensive. You have to be careful with them, however, as some users may post erroneous information in these trees. I have seen some who claim to go back to Adam and Eve and/or have Sumerian or Greek gods in their trees. The majority of them are fine though. Just make sure you check the box to search on! ly trees which cite their sources. You can then look up those sources yourself in your local library to verify that what was said online is correct. If your library does not have one of these sources than you can request it through interlibrary loan, or if that doesn't work maybe try looking on Google Books or you might find it cheaply on amazon.com. If you have anyone in your ancestry who is at all famous for anything, than you may want to try focusing on them since they may have a lot more written about them. Even if they seem hopelessly obscure, if your ancestors did something significant in colonial America or elsewhere, other people may have written extensively on them. Try looking for them on Google Books, or believe it or not Wikipedia. Although not a scholary source, Wikipedia can sometimes be quite useful for locating information on obscure ancestors who made a difference. If you find an ancestor of yours on Wikipedia and no source is cited you can use some! of the information found in the article to look for them in more depth! on Google or elsewhere. If a source is cited than you can look for that source and follow the same guidlines mentioned above for using Rootsweb. Once you have a book that was cited as a source on Wikipedia, Rootsweb, in addition to using it to verify the information found online and to find additional information, you can also look at its own sources. You can find those in the bibliography or the footnotes of the book. They may go even further in depth about whomever you are looking for. Generally with each successive step back from one bibliography to another the sources get increasingly narrow and thereby more focused on who you are researching.Also, sometimes you can find your ancestors in newspaper records. If you know where they were born or died and when you can go to a local library near there and ask if they have microfilm of relevant newspapers. If they do you can look for your ancestors' birth and death information in there or for their obituaries. Obitua! ries are quite helpful, as they tend to give detailed descriptions of the individual's early life, occupation, and exactly how they relate to everyone who outlived them. The names of the deceased's parents are also commonly mentioned.If you cannot visit the location where the microfilm is present or you do not know enough information to go by, you can still find some stuff online. The "news" section of Google has an "archives" section which contains articles from select newspapers back to the 1920s. For most of them you have to pay, but you can still see at least the Google search result display of your results enough that you may be able to tell if it is what you are looking for and then make an informed decision whether or not you should pay for it. Also, many public libraries subscribe to searchable online databases, which contain historical local newspapers going back to whenever the community in question was founded. Not all library systems subscribe to these, but! its worth it to ask them or check out their website. For more recent ! stuff, like within the past 20 years or so, many major newspaper companies keep their articles in searchable online databases as well, although in my experience these unfortunately lack in obituaries. Nevertheless, if your relative was noteworthy, they may have been mentioned and it never hurts to look.Hope that helps....Show more

Noah Deni: i'm still working on this too but here's what i'm doing now and i've gotten pretty far. first get as much information from living relatives that u know, as much as possible, then type what u got into a family tree on ancestry.com or myheritage.com and even though the research isnt entirley free it helps a lot.