Phillips family tree?where to find?

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Phillips family tree?where to find?

Answer 1

Phillips is short for "Phillip's son", the way "Jones" is short for "John's Son" and "Simons" is short for "Simon's Son". It is not as common as "Johnson", but, there were people named "Phillip" in all of the countries in Western Europe, and many of them had children who, when people started using last names, said "I'm John, son of Phillip".

so, there isn't one family tree for the Phillips family, unless you go back to Noah, if you are a fundamentalist Christian, or to the band of humans that walked out of Africa 20,000 - 40,000 years ago if you are not. (I don't care which creation theory makes the most sense to you; either way, we humans started from a very small group and multiplied.)

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...

has 696,716 entries for the surname this morning, with more every week.

Note that 15 of your 16 great great grandparents were not born a Phillips, (unless one married a cousin, or there was a remarkable coincidence), so the Phillips family tree will be just one branch of your family tree.

Here is my standard answer to "How do I trace my family tree, for free?"

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There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. I have links to some huge ones, below, but you'll have to wade through some advice and warnings first.

If you didn't mention a country, we can't tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it.

If you are in the USA,

AND most of your ancestors were in the USA,

AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access,

AND you are white

Then you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with 100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are black, sadly. Many young people stop reading here and pick another hobby.

No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late.

You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking up obituaries and so forth.

Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify.

So much for the warnings. Here is the main link.

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

That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the "new look".

You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The query forms on the sites are NOT intuitive.

Answer 2

I worked on my co-worker's family tree and he's a Phillips, that is from philadelphia and immigrated from England. I put this on www.ancestry.com

BUT, your Phillips line could be a different line.

Try some of these:

www.gencircles.com

www.familysearch.org

www.rootsweb.com (look for the world connect link)

The above links have family trees, so look for your relatives and maybe someone has researched one or more of your lines.

Answer 3

You need a little more info than just Phillips family, but try www.rootsweb.ancestry.com or www.familysearch.com. These are two of my favorites.

Answer 4

hey thats my last name too.

Answer 5

You might want to begin with the State and  County in which your parent was born.  This site is a good place to begin and then branch out to other mentioned sites.  You need to start with close relatives,  interview them, find out where they were born, where they married...

Go to:  www.usgenweb.org/   click on the state, then the county and check out all the sources available to you on those volunteer websites.  

I've worked on my own family genealogy for 35+ years. Obviously starting long before the internet was born; later the internet helped tremendously to put me in touch with sources, family...learning not only about the dates and places but the history of my family.

Answer 6

There is more t han likely many families named Phillips, not all related.  If your family tree is on any website, it would depend upon whether someone in your family has done the research  and submitted it to a website.

However, let me warn you.  Family trees on genealogy websites are not submitted by experts working for the website but the subscribers, folks like you and me.   It doesn't matter whether the website is a free one or one that you have to pay to subscribe.  There are errors.  Most of the trees are not documented or poorly documented.  You might see different information on the same people from different subscribers.  Then you will see repeatedly the same info from different subscribers on the same people, but that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.  

If you really want to research your family tree, there are lots of good people on this board that can give you some great tips and advice.  You start with yourself and work back one generation at a time, documenting everything as you do so.

Answer 7

google .."phillips family tree" and you should see something familar.