How do i find where im from?? like my heritage idk what i am i think im irish but idk?

Question

i dont know why but i all of a sudden want to know where my ansesters came from i mean i know that im cherokee but i have to be something else anyone know how i can find out??

Answer 1

I did this, but only the YDNA can get you a subclade that is specific enough to tell what part of Europe you are from, and that is only by showing that the majority of people with your sub-clade live in a specific area, but there are people with your sub-clade all over the place, so they look for concentrations.  It is not very certain yet, but it is fairly cheap and one of the sub-clades they have a lot of information on, happens to be the one that is concentrated in Ireland  / Scotland and some in England.  Here is the link.  You do the infamous CSI cheek swab.  LOL  It is actually very interesting and I spent days googling the results and leared a lot of esoteric things about my past.  http://www.familytreedna.com/

Answer 2

The usual way to begin searching for your roots is to talk with your oldest relatives and work back from the information they give you.  I recommend Ancestry.com, especially if your nearest library subscribes and you can access it on a library computer without paying.  However, you may find that the cost is worth it, since you can find a great deal of material that you would otherwise have to travel or send letters (and wait for answers) to find.

So if your family members give you information that goes back earlier than 1930, you can look the people they mention up in the census records via Ancestry.com.  Those records ususally include each person's place of birth.  The1850 census was the first to include every person by name and specific age, but just going back that far may find you the information you're looking for, since most Irish immigrants to the US came after the potato blight of the 1840s.

If you do use Ancestry.com, just don't take every family tree as gospel truth.  Anyone can post anything there.  The historical records on the site, however, are another matter.  Census records and the Social Security Death Index are federal government documents, and it would be hard to tamper with them.  And the family trees, although many should be taken with a grain of salt, are at least a starting place.

Answer 3

Go here

http://www.familysearch.org/