How do I go about making a family tree?

Question

When half of my ancestors are from other countries? Is there some way of doing online.

Also half of my family is from England is there some place i can go like some libraries or something to find out?

Thanks ^_^

Answer 1

rootsweb.com may be a good place to start for you.

In my own case, after searching in libraries I found someone that was already researching my surname.  It made things very simple.

On my mother's side, the family of my grandmother's sister was researching their family and I found a key piece of information to research my maternal side.

My paternal grandmother was from Canada and that proved to be relatively easy to research using on-line resources that concentrated on Canadian records.  (genealogie.org)

You may want to use "online genealogy england" as your search terms in any search engine you like and you will likely find uk-genealogy-online.com

rootsweb.com and genealogie.org are free but I am not terribly familiar with uk-genealogy-online

If you haven't done so already, you need to interview all the elder members of your families to find out what they know about their parents, grandparents, etc.

I believe you will find some good tips at rootsweb and on the web generally, if you use the obvious search terms.

"Yet another half-baked kerbside nugatory opinion for today!"

Answer 2

Only half of your ancestors are from other countries?  I really think that the overwhelming majority of your ancestors are from other countries, no matter which country you believe they are from.

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:

http://www.searchforancestors.com/...

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/...

http://www.cyndislist.com/

http://www.geni.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:

http://www.associatedcontent.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.

Few people can trace their ancestry in full back more than 3 - 5 generations.  Often with one or two lines (often the surnames of parents) people can go back 10, 20, 30, even more than 100 generations.  But, remember, theoretically, the number of lines (as is the case of ancestors) DOUBLES with each generation.  E.g., 10 generations ago, it would have taken 1,024 ancestors to produce you; thus, AT THAT PARTICULAR GENERATION, there were 1,024 DIFFERENT LINES.  While I myself have quite a few names from 10 generations ago, I have only a tiny portion of that 1,024 lines.  Each and every 10 generations would produce another 1,024 lines; but of course, that is impossible, so people intermarried.