Mindy: How can I find my genealogy?

answers1: I recognize in which you're coming from nevertheless, you're
making use of mortal genealogical stipulations to a Supernatural
Being, and the houses of the supernatural. Pure Holy Spirit does no
longer 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) this can be a topic of and reliant
on, the Holy Trinity a thriller the human brain has no longer the
potential to recognize. Mary bore the Infant Jesus by way of the
approach of what's known as the Immaculate Conception, once more a
supernatural thriller no longer certain by way of genealogical or
mortal territories. Joseph was once no longer Jesus's organic father;
Joseph was once the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I do not
uncover 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 without
doubt some way of acquiring talents and/or expending talents. God
bless.
answers2: In genealogy, we document everything. Too many budding
genealogist get frustrated and quit because they copied something from
someone else's tree that was improperly documented and later learned
they were researching the wrong ancestor. 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> ;
I recommend it to everyone starting out in genealogy. 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. 
 
The person you know about is you, 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
certificates did not exist before the early 1900s. Therefore, 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. 
 
By copying or ordering these documents, you have gone to relatively
little expense and you have three generations plus yourself 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 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.com free
for anyone to use while at the library and with a library card you
should be able to use Heritage Quest at home. 
 
Another free online resource is the LDS/Mormon site, which has many
free online records at <a href="http://www.familysearch.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/</a> and
original documents on their pilot site at <a
href="http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsear...</a>
. In addition to their online records, they have the Family History
Centers where you can go for help with research and look at microfilm
and they only charge nominal fees if they have to order something
specifically for you . Find a location near you on their website and
call to check hours of operation. http://www.familysearch.org/ . 
 
Additionally, USGenWeb 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. 
 
Also, do not forget to check Cyndi's List at
http://www.cyndislist.com/ and ProGenealogist top 100 genealogist
websites at http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101best2009 
both of these sites have many links for both free and fee based sites.
answers3: There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among them 
 
www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. 
www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. 
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entries 
usgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USA 
ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Social Security Death Index, 83 million names 
vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index,
9,366,786 records 
www.findagrave.com - 43 million records 
genforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state,
and thousands of surnames. 
boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and
surnames too. 
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over
30 million messages 
 
I have a page with real links to all of those, below, but you'll have
to wade through some advice and warnings first. 
 
If you search the resolved questions in this category only for the
word "Free"(use "Advanced" to limit your search to this category
only), you'll find there are 2600 questions with the word, and at
least 1500 of them ask "How can I trace my family tree for free?",
just like you did. The answers to those questions have lots of links
and tips. 
 
If you didn't mention a country, we can't tell if you are in the USA,
UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. 
 
If you are in the USA, 
AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, 
AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, 
AND you are white 
Then you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with
100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are
black, sadly. Many young people stop reading here and pick another
hobby. 
 
No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated
the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the
depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how
Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling
herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late. 
 
You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get
back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking
up obituaries and so forth. 
 
Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to
be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify.
 
 
So much for the warnings. Here is the main link. 
 
<a href="http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html</a>
 
 
That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for
a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a
dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A
limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the
links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post
the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the
"new look". 
 
You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put
too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry
ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet
Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The
query forms on the sites are NOT intuitive.
answers4: Last week while searching for my ancestors from Germanna, I
received a pop-up ad telling me that I should hire a professional
genealogist, as very little of the available info out there is on
genealogy websites. That doesn't prevent one from using the web: I
found the death certificate, and who the parents were, for a
great-grandmother who died in Kansas City in 1915 at a library. Now I
have found more records for ancestors: at libraries. Much of this
material is also published in books. Of course, the problem there is
finding out whether or not the "John Jones" in there is your ancestor.
So, if you get stuck, remember the real authorites in genealogy: books
and libraries. 
 
You should start by asking all your living relatives about family
history. Then, armed with that information, you can go to your public
library and check to see if it has a genealogy department. Most do
nowadays; also, don't forget to check at community colleges,
universities, etc. Our public library has both www.ancestry.com and
www.heritagequest.com free for anyone to use (no library card
required). 
Another place to check out is any of the Mormon's Family History
Centers. They allow people to search for their family history (and,
NO, they don't try to convert you). 
A third option is one of the following websites: 
<a href="http://www.searchforancestors.com/..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.searchforancestors.com/...</a>
 
 
<a href="http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...</a>
 
 
www dot usgenweb dot com/ 
 
www dot census dot gov/ 
 
<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.rootsweb.com/</a> 
 
www dot ukgenweb dot com/ 
 
www dot archives dot gov/ 
 
http://www.familysearch.org/ 
 
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... 
 
http://www.cyndislist.com/ 
 
www dot geni dot com/ 
 
Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's
passenger lists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the
Philippines, where ever and whatever. 
 
Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620,
plimouth, massachusetts" as an example. 
 
Good luck and have fun! 
 
Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites: 
 
www dot associatedcontent dot com/article... 
 
Then there is the DNA test; if you decide you want to REALLY know
where your ancestors came from opt for the DNA test. Besides all the
mistakes that officials commonly make, from 10% to 20% of birth
certificates list the father wrong; that is, mama was doing the
hanky-panky and someone else was the REAL father. That won't show up
on the internet or in books; it WILL show up in DNA. 
I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics
Genotype Program.

Mindy

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Monday, 16 September 2019

How can I find my genealogy?

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