Any one doing a search or making a Family Tree with Evers or have info about this Family Tree?

Question

Any one doing a search or making a Family Tree with Evers or have info about this Family Tree?

Answer 1

Some. There are 16,891 entries for the surname on RWWC, mentioned below.

The Mormons, also mentioned below, have thousands of them too. Here are 10, from the 1880 USA census. One might be your great great grandfather. Note that the Mormons include variant spellings. Your chance of finding people who spelled their name exactly the same on every document are small. My PACK ancestors have been recorded as Park, Poke, Pock, Pork, Puck, Peck, Beck and Back.

1. Henry EVERS - 1880 United States Census / Connecticut

FatherL   Gender: Male   Birth: <1800> HOLLAND



2. John B. EIVER - 1880 United States Census / Connecticut

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1800> NH



3. Salina EVARTS - 1880 United States Census / Connecticut

Self   Gender: Female   Birth: <1800> CT



4. Amos EVEREST - 1880 United States Census / Illinois

Father   Gender: Male   Birth: <1800> MD



5. Isabel EVEREST - 1880 United States Census / Maryland

Aunt   Gender: Female   Birth: <1800> MD



6. Sam EVERTS - 1880 United States Census / Minnesota

FatherL   Gender: Male   Birth: <1800> CAN



7. Watson EAVER - 1880 United States Census / New York

Self   Gender: Male   Birth: <1800> MA



8. Uana EVERS - 1880 United States Census / Ohio

Self   Gender: Female   Birth: <1800> HAN



9. Patrick EVERS - 1880 United States Census / Pennsylvania

Other   Gender: Male   Birth: <1800> LONGFORD CO., IRE

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This is a text file I paste to questions like yours. People ask similar questions 3 - 14 times a day here. By pasting, you get a long, detailed answer, but I don't get finger cramps. It is long because there are over 400,000 free genealogy sites.

It is also long because researching your family tree is as hard as writing a term paper in a History class. You don't have to be a rocket scientist, but you won't do it with five clicks. I could tell you everything I know in 30 minutes, but not 3. The fact you have to do research stops nine out of ten teens and many adults.

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 not, please edit your question to add a country. Or, better yet, delete it and ask again, this time putting inthe country. Genealogists from the UK answer posts here too. They are more experienced and more intelligent than I am. I'm better looking and my jokes are better.

The really good stuff is in your parents' and grandparents' memories. 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. Don't look for yourself or your parents. Crooks can use your birth date and your mother's maiden name to steal your identity. If your parents were married in June and your oldest brother was born 4 months later, it isn't anyone's business, which is another reason living people's dates are not on public sites.

So much for the warnings. Here are some links. These are large and free. Many of them have subtle ads for Ancestry.com in them - ads that ask for a name, then offer a trial subscription. Watch out for those advertisements.

If you try the links and don't find anyone, go to

http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html

It repeats each link, but it has a whole paragraph of tips and instructions for each one.

http://www.cyndislist.com

Cyndi's List has over 250,000 sites.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

The Mormon's mega-site.

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

RootsWeb World Connect. The links at the top are advertisements. They mislead beginners. Ignore them and scroll down.

http://www.rootsweb.com/

RootsWeb Home.

This is the biggest free (genealogy) site in the world.

http://www.ancestry.com

Ancestry has some free data and some you have to pay for.

http://www.usgenweb.net

US Gen Web. Click on a state. Find a link that says "County".

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/defa...

Surname meanings and origins, one of Ancestry's free pages.

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-b...

Social Security Death Index. Click on "Advanced". Women are under their married names. They are under their maiden names in most other sites.

http://find.person.superpages.com/

USA Phone book, for looking up distant cousins.

http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/sear...

California Death Index, 1940 - 1997.

    

http://www.genforum.com

GenForum has surname, state and county boards.

http://boards.ancestry.com/

Ancestry has surname, state and county boards too. They are free.

Read

http://www.tedpack.org/goodpost.html

before you post on either one.

Read the paragraphs about query boards on

http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html

before you search them.

      

http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/lis...

Roots Web Mailing List Archives.

Read

http://www.tedpack.org/maillist.html

if genealogy mailing lists are new to you.

Off the Internet, some public libraries have census image subscriptions. Many Family History Centers do too. FHC's are small rooms in Mormon churches. They welcome anyone interested in genealogy, not just fellow Mormons. They have resources on CD's and volunteers who are friendly. They don't try to convert you; in fact, they don't mention their religion unless you ask a question about it.

Answer 2

just a quick footnote to Ted's reply....

There is no Smith family tree, Jones family tree, or Evers family tree.  Just because a person has the same name as you, will NOT mean that you are related, or every Evers or <fill in the name> is descended from the same place or ancestors.

Searching for a surname is what I call "throwing darts".. and maybe you will hit a relative with info.  It is a complete waster of your energy.

Work from yourself backwards.  When YOU know that your gr grandfathr was Jim Evers who died in Alabama in 1939, or London in 1743.. that is what you post. You have an explicit person, place and time, for someone to work with, and much higher odds. You save me from saying that I went to high school with someone named Ann Evers in Missouri, only for you to have to answer back that your family never was in Missouri.

Focus on the individual persons.