How do I find out how I am related to John Hart, signer of the Declaration of Independence?

Question

I know I am related, but both of my parents are deceased and I need to know if it was on my mother's or father's side of the family. I know nothing about geneology. Suggestions?

Answer 1

Go to genealogy.com.   Good luck

Answer 2

The right way to do this is to start with your name and information (birth year and location), go back to your parents' information, then your grandparents', etc., etc.  That process will need to be done in order to verify whether you are a descendant or blood relative to John Hart.

In an effort to try to give you a jump start on that process (which takes a LOT of work and time!), you might browse through what others have posted in the way of public family trees online.  I went to Ancestry(dot)com and did a search for a John Hart born in about 1750, and found that he is in several trees that you can find at this URL:  http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.d...

Please note that these public trees are not "Gospel truth," you must do your own research to verify.  Once you click a link to any of these trees to open it, you will see a neat feature in the upper right corner:  "See full list of people" will let you see an alphabetical list by surname of people who are included in the tree.  This may help you quickly look for any familiar surnames in your known family tree.

Best of luck!

Answer 3

Write down as much information you can get about your parents or grandparents - preferably relatives born before 1930 for access to on-line records.  Useful information includes full names (middle names, maiden names), their sibling's names, birth, death and marriage dates/locations.

  

Ancestry.com has the most resources, including the census records where you'll get valuable information to work with (names of ancestor's parents & siblings, birth years/locations), then continue to work your way back gathering the details for each generation however there is a fee.  

http://ancestry.com

There are lots of  free sites which are very good as well, but it will require more searching moving from site to site.  Here are some links to the popular free sites:

This link it for the Mormon churches vast collection of family history, Social Security Death Index and US (1880) UK (1881) Census records. They also offer free family tree software (PAF).

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default....

Rootsweb has family trees with over 250 million names.  Take a look at these links for trees of John Hart b. 1711-13 d. 1779:

This one shows over 500 of his descendents

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.co...

This link has a list of all the trees for John Hart on rootsweb.  Click on his name, then click either decsendents or index to view others in the tree.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.co...

Cyndislist has extensive links for specific records and locations.

http://www.cyndislist.com/

Ted Pack's website is really helpful for people who are getting started in their research.  You'll find all the details and great advise for using  the most popular free sites, I would suggest going here first:

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

Good Luck, it is time consuming but very rewarding and a lot of fun!  If you need some help getting started in your search, send me an email through my profile and I'd be happy to help.

Answer 4

um i am related as well if you are talking about the guy who signed the dec. of inde. than ya me 2

Answer 5

Try to trace it back. You might be related but not directly.