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Question

I NEED TO KNOW MY FAMILY HISTORY CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME A WEBSITE OR SOME INFO

Answer 1

I have a feeling you have a school assignment.

The best thing to start off with is to get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your old folks, like me.

If you have them time to do so it would be good for you to tape them if they will let you.

It might be they are confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very significant. Find out if any family has any old family bibles. Ask to see birth, marriage and death certificates.  Depending ont he faith, Baptismal, First Communion, Confirmation and Marriage certificates can be helpful.   You are not going to find living people on genealogy websites, due to identity theft.   That is why your ground work is with the living first.

Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com which has lots of records and seems to be getting more all the time. They have all the U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet.  They have U. K. censuses also.  

You cannot take as absolute fact everything thing you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The info is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different subscribers on the same people that is no guarantee at all it is correct.  A lot of people copy without verifying. There is no way the people who run those websites can verify what subscribers submit.  You can make up a lot of stuff and put it in your family tree and they really wouldn't know or care.  Actually, I understand there are some people who do that for fun to see how many people will copy.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons.

You would need to find out their hours for the general public by calling them or visiting their free website, FamilySearch.org.  In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell.

Answer 2

www.ancestry.com is a start. Limited search options without a membership though. Google genealogy AND your last name. It's very time consuming to trace lineage though. Plan on tossing the ASAP part if you want to do it right.

Answer 3

Although there may be information out there on your family tree, you are the one that most likely would have to cobble the information together.  It is not a one size fit all.

You seem to need the details immediately and no one site can really provide it ready-made unless one of your relatives has done research and placed it online.  

My guess is that you would like 'free' information.  Not all 'free' information is accurate and you really need to document via birth, death, marriage certificates, etc. to do a proper job. Taking what some unknown person has placed online as fact is not a way of documenting your family history.

One site that might have family trees which include your family surnames would be http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ , but just because your surname is in a family tree it does not mean that it is even your family.

ancestry.com is wonderful for primary source information, but it is not free and you have to spend time looking up the details unless a tree has been placed there.

Good luck on your search...

Answer 4

Ok, you need to slow down.  You can’t just go on some website and *poof*, your whole family tree is there, all completed and accurate and free. Considering the years it takes to do genealogy, who is going to do that for you?

Genealogy is not that simple. It does not work that way.

First, you are not going to find anything on anyone who lived in the last 50-100 years. It is unethical to post anything on anyone living or that recently deceased as it protects the identity of the living from identity theft and scams. Professional genealogists know this.

Second, IF you do find anything on the internet of your family (probably starting around 1900 and going back), you cannot assume just because it is on the internet means it is accurate. The only way to know if the information you find is right is to do your OWN research from scratch. A lot of people out there copy and paste other people's bad "research" and don't verify anything. That is wrong.

Third, unless you have a great-aunt or someone who has already done some research and posted it on the net, then your family will not be on the internet. People don't usually go around researching trees of total strangers for no reason at all and just put it on the internet for that stranger to one day find their whole family tree in 5 clicks or less.

Fourth, genealogy is fun and rewarding, but also very difficult and challenging, like putting together a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. And will take longer than doing that puzzle to do.

The best thing to do is to start by asking questions of your living relatives. Collect as much information as possible regarding names, dates, places, etc. and DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.

Then start an internet search as well as doing some research the old fashion way (going to libraries, court houses, cemeteries, etc.). If you find anything on the net, you need to try to reproduce the research yourself and see if you can find legitimate documentation of the individual, dates, or event in order to be sure the information is accurate. Trees on the net are to be used as clues and guidelines......not as gospel. Ask the poster about their resources and proof. Many times, you can find scanned copies of original documents such as census records. Otherwise, I would not take their word for it that what they have is right. As far as what sites to use, there are tons of them. You will need to just google for genealogy sites and sift through them. Some are free, some are not. All are subject to many errors, inaccurate, undocumented information that you will have to sift through and find what is right and what is not. You will probably end up using a combination of free and paid sites.

Last, you will not accomplish this overnight, in a week, month, or year. It is a LIFETIME hobby and passion, that, inspite of the countless hours you spend at it, it will never be completed. There is always another piece of the puzzle to find.

If you expect it to fall into your lap, all done and completed, and accurate, and FREE, with no work or challenge at all, then you are going to be disillusioned. Besides, that takes all the fun out of it.  And if you are not really willing to work at it and invest the time and money, then it is not the hobby for you.

Answer 5

I can give you some info. You have a mother and a father. They each had a mother and father too. They may not be alive, you may not know them and they may not live in this country, but at some point they united and their union was blessed with issue.

If your grandparents are still alive, still lucid and still speaking to you, you could ask them who THEIR grandparents were. If they remember (Many don't, especially if they take a nip or two in the evening to ward off the chill). If you get some names, that will get you back 5 generations from yourself. That should be enough for the assignment you have to turn in on Monday. Get names, birth dates, birth places and maiden names.

There are 400,000 web sites devoted to Genealogy. It would take you a month, working 40 hours a week, to get a really good family tree.