Ruthe Real: The first thing to understand is that the online records only have dead people in them. It seems obvious, but people keep trying to find themselves and their parents online...but genealogists protect the privacy rights of the living at all costs. So when you start your search, you may have to start with grandparents or even the grandparents of your grandparents. For most people, that means talking to your family, both immediate and distant, to document all the people they know.For a beginner, download a program called PAF (Personal Ancestral File) from the Mormon's Family History site. It's a free program and a great way to organize yourself. http://www.familysearch.orgThe site I just gave you is the first place to go to look for information...but it comes with a caveat. It's full of bad information. It's only a place to start. You honestly need to research every last person on those trees and double check the accuracy of every set of parents for every person ! to make sure you're still on the right tree. People make a lot of leaps in logic when they're researching, and they rarely include their sources. Take it only as a guide if you find information on your family on there...don't believe it's all true or even partially true.From there, go to the largest library in your area and check out their genealogy resources. You'll find most US and Canadian library systems subscribe to one of two programs that are very helpful: Ancestry.com or Heritage Quest. Both have their benefits and drawbacks. But the benefit of accessing them through your library is that they pay for the subscription and you get access to the full membership for free. You just need a library card. Many even have portals where you can sign on from home. While at the library, you'll also find things like census records on microfilm, local obituaries on the newspaper films, large reference books like "Germans to America" and the "Wurtemberg Emigration Index". You'll fi! nd records from your state that will never find their way onli! ne, especially histories of local counties and the people who pioneered them. Finally, once you're really organized and have a game plan, take a day to visit your state archives and state library. These are the mack daddies of research sites. They have things onsite that you have to pay a lot of money to rent through the LDS. Most of all, they usually have copies of the newspapers from throughout your state, the naturalization records from local courts that predate a national Immigration and Naturalization program, and birth records from throughout the state....Show more
Alphonso Brake: I appreciate in which you're coming from nonetheless, you're making use of mortal genealogical stipulations to a Supernatural Being, and the homes of the supernatural. Pure Holy Spirit does now not own a corporal frame, It is omniscient, all-powerful and omnipresent. In this context Jesus descended from the Holy Spirit or as an alternative God the Father; (God the Father (Creator) God ! the Son (Savior) God the Holy Spirit) it is a subject of and reliant on, the Holy Trinity a thriller the human brain has now not the ability to appreciate. Mary bore the Infant Jesus via the manner of what's referred to as the Immaculate Conception, once more a supernatural thriller now not certain through genealogical or mortal territories. Joseph used to be now not Jesus's organic father; Joseph used to be the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I do not discover your query a waste of time, the seek for theTruth, nor the solutions. In my opinion it's time good spent, and such a lot most likely some way of acquiring skills and/or expending skills. God bless....Show more
Rashad Marecki: See -- https://backgroundreports.im/ancestry
Donald Caravalho: Your starting point is with your family. Get as much informtion as possible, particularly from your senior members. Even when their minds are a little feeble they can have a wealth of information.Tape them if they wi! ll let you. People who do this say when they go back and listen to the! tape again they hear things they didn't hear the first time around. What might seem to be at the time insignificant ramblings might turn out to be very important.Check your local library to see if they have a genealogical section and if they have Ancestry.Com. You will need to check census records. Ancestry.Com has them through 1930.Now information in family trees on any website must be taken as clues not as absolute fact. A lot of the information is not documented and even if you see the same information over and over by different submitters, a lot of copying is being done.Remember, not everyone with the same surname comes from the same root. You can join surname forums, but don't expect everyone to be working on anyone related toyou.Death certificates and applications for a social security number gives names of both parents and their place of birth including mother's maiden name.Courthouse records - copies of wills etc. Church records. There was a time a lot of vit! al informatin was not required to be recorded with a government entity and often times churches have information for baptisms, first communion and confirmation, marriage, death. Ancestry.Com has a lot of records and getting more all the time. However, a person shouldn't get too inpatient because they just don't have a particular record on someone they are looking for.Ancestry.Com, Rootsweb.Com and Genealogy.Com have message boards which I have found very helpful. If you put a message on Rootsweb it will show up on Ancestry.Com and vice versa. Ancestry.Com has some immigration records but I understand the National Archives in Washington,D.C. is a treasure trove for people with immigrant ancestors.The websites should be used as a supplmental source. FamilySearch.org has a lot of records.LDS (Mormon Church) Data Centers have tons of information and they are very helpful....Show more
Roland Stampley: Sometimes it can be easy and sometimes it can be hard. Always start! with yourself and work backwards. Interview at once! all of your older! relatives. Ask to see pictures whether they are in a frame or in a picture box. Ask to see a family bible, birth certificates, death certificates or any certificate at all. The census record is your best friend and never piss off a court clerk.
Sheron Perrez: With genealogy, you have to have a place to start, and that place is the members of your family who are living, or who you or a living family member knew. While many names are the same, the details like places, dates, a spouse or child's name, and many other things combine to point you to a unique individual. You start by learning all you can from people you can talk to now. Talk with your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - anyone who many have known your ancestors. Find out all you can. You may want to get a simple genealogy program to record what you know. There is a good FREE one called Personal Ancestral File ("PAF") that's available from the Mormon Church (I know that genealogy is part of their re! ligion, but I don't know a lot of the details); I'll provide the link below. Once you have as much information about as many of your forebears as you can get by talking to people, it's time to start reseaching. There are a couple of really good sites for this. The first is called RootsWeb, and it's free. People who have done research on their families upload their family trees to this site, and the site has its own search feature. You can put in the name of your grandmother, for instance, add the name of your grandfather as her spouse, and you may come up with her parents, and possibly many ancestors further back. It takes some time, but more people add data and trees every day, so it can be done. The other good site is Ancestry.com. They charge a fee for their site (about $20 a month) but it contains thousands upon thousands - maybe MILLIONS - of records of all sorts, as well as family trees. There are census records, military service records, draft cards, birth r! ecords, death records, marriage records, passenger lists - they are als! o adding something all the time. The most recent census available is the 1930 Census (Federal law requires that 72 years elapse before individual data from a census is released, so the 1940 census won't come out until 2012). It's mostly just a matter of getting started, and making a connection to other researchers, as well as information put online by genealogy clubs, various counties, and all sorts of other groups. It takes time, but once you get started, you'll be hooked!...Show more
