How can I find my ancestry?

Question

I want to know what my ancestry is. How can I find this?

Answer 1

Google it..?

Answer 2

You don't "find" it.  You create it.  You start with yourself and work backwards.  You find legal records / documentation to support and prove each relationship (records include birth, marriage, and death certificates, wills, census records, court records, land records, parrish / church records, cemetery records, etc.).  You write down and document EVERYTHING in an extremely organized manner.  You can also use the internet, but there is no magic website for this.  There are MANY websites you can use, and which ones will depend on what you are looking for.  Not everything is on the internet; and what you do find on the internet is not on every genealogy website.  One site might have one piece of information and another site has another piece of information.  And, anything you do find on the net, do not take as fact unless you can back it up and prove it with original documentation like the records sources I listed above.  To get all the records will require many phone calls to different agencies that house such records, road trips to various communities to do first-hand research for records yourself, and can become a great expense.  It is not a "free" hobby.  And, understand what it means to "trace" your family tree.  Finding someone else's research and family tree on a genealogy site that might also be part of your family tree is not "tracing" your family tree.  Someone else traced it.  You just found it.  And, if you do find parts of your family tree done by long distant cousins or something, don't accept it as accurate until you can prove each relationship with the documentation, or they can provide you with the documentation, which they should have if they did their research right.  Many people do not do the research.  They just copy and paste other people's "research".  This is how bad  / erroneous information gets passed around the internet.  This is why you may see the same info in multiple places by different people, but that does not mean the info must be true.  If the first person who posted it was wrong, then it is wrong for everyone who copied and pasted it.