I'm looking for information on my relatives and ancestors?

Question

my grandmother just found an old address/contacts book with names of people in our family. we are thinking it's my late grandfather's book. we are also suspecting that he had 7 other wives in the philippines and 35 other children, other than my grandmother's children of 11. are there any good sites where i can look up these names and find information on them?

Answer 1

sounds like a very busy person

try genesreunited.co.uk

Answer 2

It sounds like you might want to contact the Phillipine government and ask which agency would best serve you...

Answer 3

You can try www.ancestry.com .  You might find someone else that is working on your family, sometimes you can find an e-mail address to contact a person.  Here are a few other sites that I use:

www.gencircles.com

www.multigen.com

www.usgenweb.com (for the state and their counties)

Answer 4

Try this one:

Familysearch.org has a wonderful free online research guide for the Philippines. See

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/r...

As I understand it, the Philippines did not unify surnames until about 1860; record keeping did not become uniform until the 1900s, meaning you will need to rely upon family records, church records or DNA.

Answer 5

Can't answer the question, but is seven extra wives even legal anywhere in the world?  I know muslims can have up to four wives, but why would anyone want that many (you couldn't even have one for each day of the week, how the h**l does that work?).  If true, that must be pretty close to some kind of world record.  The mind boggles.  Really.

Back on track, my honest first thought is that recent 20thC records for the Phillipines are almost certainly not on line.  They should be in English though, which is one positive.  How open they are to access is anybodies guess.  I would seriously suggest that you repost this to a specific forum which specialises in this part of the world.  Yahoo Answers is not that place.  The chances of any of the regulars on here having any first-hand experience of genealogy in the Phillipines is pretty slim.  I would advise you try somewhere like Rootsweb, who should have a specific message board for SE Asia and people who have been there, done it, and got the t-shirt.