answers1: 1. You need to understand that one researches one's
genealogy (family tree/family history) and creates one's family tree
from the information found. You start that research by looking through
and looking for your own family records and documents, including your
birth certificate, birth certificates for your parents, birth and/or
death certificates for grand parents, wedding/marriage records for
your parents, grand parents, etc., baptismal/christening records,
census records (in the USA - 1930 census and earlier), etc. <br>
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2. To help you understand how to conduct your research I recommend the
guide here: <br>
<a href="http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/</a>
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Be sure to read the info in the General Subjects links. <br>
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3. Find out the public library location of the main genealogy
collection in your local public library system/network, including the
hours of service, and go there. Talk with a reference librarian in the
genealogy dept. He/she will be able to guide you to good print and
electronic resources for your research. <br>
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4. Depending upon your ethnic ancestry and where your immediate
ancestors came from, you may have various degrees of ease or
difficulty in finding your family history. Example: If both sets of
your grandparents came from Uzbekistan, then, right now, it may be
difficult to find family records in the USA and you would need to
travel to Uzbekistan (and be able to read Uzbek or Russian) and
research your family history there. <br>
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Once you know more about the process, you may be able to find more
family history for your genealogy. <br>
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Best wishes
answers2: You absolutely CANNOT find your ancestors just by jumping
around looking for someone with your surname. The only way you can
find out your genealogy, your ahnentafel, is to start with yourself
and work backwards, one generation at a time. So, dig out your birth
certificate and see who is listed as your parents; find their birth
certificates and find out who their parents were, on back to about the
mid-1800s for the U.S. and England. Most countries did not have BMD
(birth/marriage/death) records that far back. <br>
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Ancestry.com and the Mormons claim to have hundreds of millions of
names in their data banks. The problem is, there are about 7 Billion
living humans; altogether, modern man totals about 84 Billion persons.
(World population has nearly tripled in my lifetime.) <br>
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The best sources, the most accurate, are the libraries and
historical/genealogical societies. Add to that the LOC (Library of
Congress) and State/Uniiverties, such as in Ohio, New York, Virginia,
and Alabama have genealogical archives that cover the U.S., Canada,
and the Carribean, including the Cherokee and other Eastern Indians.
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So, for names, etc., dig, dig, dig. If you need confirmation or just
want to know where your ancestors came from, go to
www.familytreedna.com and submit DNA samples.
answers3: Genealogies are not found, they must be researched; that is
why you can't find you genealogy. <br>
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There is an excellent tutorial for those who are new to family
research at <a href="http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/</a> ;
everyone starting out in genealogy should understand the basics and
this tutorial covers them. After you complete the tutorial, the
following is a basic plan and generally only requires the tools that
you already have like your computer and Internet service provider.
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So, start with your birth certificate, which has your parents, and
then ask your parents for copies of their birth certificates, which
will have your grandparents on them. Then if you grandparents are
living, continue the process. At some point, you will experience a
problem depending on when you grandparents or great grandparents were
born, in that; birth certificate records for the 19th century are not
found in all states. Also, you need to get back to 1930 with personal
records because those types of records are not available to the public
for 50 to 100 years depending on the jurisdiction in which they are
held and census records which are quite valuable in tracing our
ancestor's movements are not available before 1930 at this time. <br>
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By copying or ordering these documents, you have gone to relatively
little expense and including you, you have four generations and you
have it documented with primary documents. That will give you 2
parents, 4 grandparents, and 8 great grandparents' names to start
researching. Now, you are ready to use the Internet websites and can
use death certificates, marriage records, census records, immigration
records, church records, court records and many other sources to
research your ancestry. Your public libraries will most likely have
both Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest free for anyone to use while at
the library and with a library card you should be able to use Heritage
Quest at home. <br>
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Another free online resource is the LDS/Mormon site, which has many
free online records and original documents at <a
href="https://www.familysearch.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>https://www.familysearch.org/</a> In
addition to their online records, they have Family History Centers
where you can go for personalized help with research and look at
microfilm and while they will not do your research for you they will
help you, a lot. They only charge if they have to order something
specifically for you or you need photocopies and their charges are
minimal. Look on the home page of their website to find a location
near you and call to check hours of operation. <a
href="http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Home/Welcome/home.asp"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Home/Wel...</a>
…this website is also where the Social Security Death Index is
located, click on advanced search look on left hand side for Social
Security Death Index. <br>
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Additionally, USGen Web is another free online resource at
http://www.usgenweb.org/ . This site is packed with how-to tips,
queries and records for every state and most counties within those
states. Then, there is Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ a
free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames,
post queries on the message boards and subscribe to surname mailing
lists. This is also where you will find RootsWeb World Connect, where
people upload their family trees which are also searchable. <br>
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Also, be sure to check each state that you need information from as
many have their own projects, for example, the state of Missouri has a
great website that has many free source documents online at
http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/ and South Carolina has many free wills and
other court documents at
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/search.aspx <br>
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Also, Family Tree Magazine's 101 Best Websites, 2010
http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Websites-2010 . You may
have to register for their free newsletter to access this list but you
will find that helpful also as they highlight new methods for
researching and new websites in every edition. <br>
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And the only site that is included on this list which has some links
that are free and some that are fee is Cyndi's List but it will be
well worth your time to look through the list for the free websites
because of their quality: http://www.cyndislist.com/ <br>
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Also, you can come back here for help with specific questions.
answers4: the ideal thank you to bypass is study your own kin historic
past as ideal you could lower back so a strategies as you could, era
by skill of era. Parallel that with a learn of historic past &
politics everywhere your loved ones takes you. i think you will
rejoice with this immensely.
answers5: You have jumped onto the internet and are searching by
surname thinking everyone who has the same surname is
related.......instead of starting with the know and working back to
the unknown...that is start with yourself and work back using th
records you already have at home and in the home of all your living
relations and do your ground work first so you will then know your
family, who you are looking for and where you should be looking. <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin...</a>
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