I have a really common family name…..
There’s a fantastic website called ancestry.com that makes it easy to trace your family history. You can start a family tree for free and you just need basic information about your parents. If you can go even further with grandparents and great-grandparents, you’d be surprised how quickly the information will start pouring in. If you decide to subscribe for a month or two, you will have access to basically all the work that other people have done in creating family trees!
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You can try typing your family name on the internet then search it. Someone’s bound to come up. Or there might be a computer software you can use.
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There’s a fantastic website called ancestry.com that makes it easy to trace your family history. You can start a family tree for free and you just need basic information about your parents. If you can go even further with grandparents and great-grandparents, you’d be surprised how quickly the information will start pouring in. If you decide to subscribe for a month or two, you will have access to basically all the work that other people have done in creating family trees!
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http://www.ancestry.com/
http://www.genealogy.com/index_n.html
This looks like a good place to start. Good luck! : )
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the internet
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Start with the living. Ask them about their parents, grandparents, etc..
http://www.rootsweb.com is a good place to look and is free. Many people have their family trees and other information listed. You may find that your family is connected to them.
Ancestry.com is great, offers a lot, but is expensive.
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Build your family tree on line.
You can do this for free on:
http://www.tribalpages.com/
Start with yourself, then attach living family members.
Find out all you can about you family from living members, then attach it to your tree.
Now it is time to look for historical records and attach the info to your tree:
It is ALL about census records, and other historical records!
You might get lucky and others may have done some work on your family tree. Google family members names i.e. "Mary Smith" + "family tree"
Free sites:
http://www.searchforancestors.com/
http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=27399&o_lid=27399
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/
ECT.
The time may come when you want more information than you can find for free. When this happens you can back up your "tribalpage" tree to your computer on a "GEDCOM" file
you can then go to (I think it is the best subscription site)
http://www.ancestry.com/
Upload your "GEDCOM" file
and start to work!
You might need to make a few adjustments to your tree to make it look better.
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Lots and lots of research!
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Ask your parents what family members would be in the 1930 census and where they lived. Using ancestry.com or another census website, find their census. Use the names on that census to find pre-filed family trees. (That will give you ages of members who may not especially want to tell you their age.)
Or ask a relative who has already started their genealogy. (Other people do not always want to give information for free. Research does have some monetary value, though some people think researchers should post everything for free. We spend much of our own money on this search.)
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Step one, m’friend…
Don’t worry about your surname. You are not tracing your surname, you are tracing your ancestry.
The *trick* in genealogy is very simple. Work from yourself backwards, and document as you go. In other words.. the first document you would use is your own birth certificate, which shows your parents. Women are traced by the maiden name, not the married name. Both parents are equal parts of you.
You are not tracing all the Smiths in the world. You know your father is George Smith, born (for example) in Texas in 1950. You don’t NEED to concern yourself with other Smiths. You zoom into finding the exact birth record for George, and you thus know when and where to be looking. Your mom is Mary Jones, born <fill in the blank> and you want HER records, not the Jones who lived in Maine.
Going by the *right* methods, you find your grandparents, now you have 4 PERSONS. Not surnames. You look for THEIR INDIVIDUAL RECORDS. Stay focused on individuals, not generalities. That may be the one most important idea that I hope to share with new researchers.
Instead of "where do I find death records?".. think of a death record for a person who died about 1920 in Texas. It will be different for a person who died in 1988 in Georgia. Or someone who was born in 1832 in Illinois.
When you see research as a focus on specific persons, you don’t get distracted or overwhelmed by a name which is common.
One of my favorite sites is http://www.cyndislist.com
She has a GREAT section for new researchers, including tutorials, and articles about paths to avoid. For example, info about live persons is normally discouraged online. Your beginning information will be found in offline or private records. In a shorter time than you know, your work will be back to the early 1900s or 1800s, and there will be more historical sources open to you.
I often think of research as an ongoing crossword puzzle, which is NEVER finished. Each time you find a new answer, it leads to another.
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ancestry.com or census records
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First and foremost, start with the people who are living. Find out what they know. Talk with aunts and uncles, cousins, and so on – anybody who is part of your family. Get dates, locations, names, memories, stories – it’s ALL important. Find out what they remember about people who are no longer living, too. Put all your information into a database that will help you organize it. The Mormon church offers a free one, "Personal Ancestral File," that you can download from their web site (they won’t bug you in terms of their religion). Once you have included as much as you can from people who are living, start to search online sites, records, etc., for matching people and events. Computers have revolutionized genealogy in the last two decades, and there are ENORMOUS amounts of data available, as well as innumerable personal genealogical web sites.
Good luck in your search!
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http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default….
http://www.ancestry.com
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Sweetie, stop and think. How many people cut their grass with a fingernail scissors? Don’t you think that if there was an easy way to do it, we’d all do it? If you could learn algebra by putting the book under your pillow at night, who’d bother with class and homework?
Thing #2, you have 16 surnames in your tree at the GG-grandparent level. That’s back far enough people married their cousins, so you probably have less than 32 surnames at the GGG-GP level and almost certainly less than 64 at the next level. They can’t all be comon.
The easiest way is to hire a good genealogist who works out of the gigantic library in Salt Lake City at $50 an hour. Give him/her two weeks at 40 hours per, come back and collect your report. If you don’t have $4,000 at hand, you’ll have to do the work yourself like the rest of us.
This is a long answer that I paste now and again to questions like yours. The first paragraph mentions the second easiest way.
The short answer to "How can I find my family tree?" is that if one of your great-aunts has spent 30 years researching it, AND has posted her research on the Internet, you’ll find it. If not, you will have to do the research yourself. It is not difficult, but it takes time. Most young people do not want to spend a couple of hours a week doing research, because it is too much like homework. So, you may want to skip the rest of this answer. If not, read on.
If your line has been "done", chance are it is on one of these two sites. When you search, don’t fill in all of the fields. Start with given name, surname and birth year. Use (+/-) 5 for the birth year. Expect to spend 15 – 45 minutes on each. Neither has any living people, so don’t enter your own name.
http://www.familysearch.com
(Mormon’s mega-site. Click on "Search", to start with, or "Advanced Search")
Roots Web
http://www.rootsweb.com
and in particular,
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
(Roots Web World Connect; 460,000,000+ entries, of varying quality)
Here are a few more. The resolved questions have lots of links and tips.
http://www.cyndislist.com/
(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed. If you want Welsh or Pennsylvania Dutch or Oregon or any other region, ethnic group or surname, chances are she has links for it.)
Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com/
(which has free pages and FEE pages – so watch out)
and, in particular,
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=
Surname meanings and origins
http://www.tedpack.org/begingen.html
My own site: "How to Begin"
United States only:
http://www.usgenweb.net/
(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.)
(The Canadians have Canadian Gen Web, by province)
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
(Social Security Death index – click on "Advanced". You may find your grandparents.)
http://find.person.superpages.com/
(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins)
United Kingdom Only:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/
(Biggest site for United Kingdom & Ireland)
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
(Free Birth, Marriage & Death Records)
In the USA, some public libraries have census image subscriptions. Many Family History Centers do too.
This is a general hint: Even though you go in through YA Canada, YA Australia, YA UK or YA USA, all of the questions go into one big "pot" and get read by everyone in the world who speaks English. Most of the people here are in the UK and USA, but you sometimes get questions and answers from people who worry about kangaroos eating their roses. So, if you are asking about a specific individual, put a nation and a state / province. It will help people help you.
The other answerers suffer fools more gladly than I do. If you’ve read this far, and can see straight enough to type, and know someone who was in the USA in 1930, I’ll look try to find him/her on my census subscription for you. Write to me via my profile.
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