Someone help me track my GENEOLOGY??

Question

i really want to know if i am related to royalty but most websites i have gone to charge you to have them track records,or they have you make your own family tree i really need a site i can go to figure this out.SOMEONE HELP PLEASE!!!!

Answer 1

The only way is to trace your ancestry starting with yourself and working back. Anytime you try to find a person in the past and work down you will wind up getting into a tangle.  As you go back your direct ancestors pyramids. For instance, barring any duplicates, when you get back to your 6xgreat grandparents you are already descended from 510 individuals.  However, it pyramids even more when you come down from someone in the past to the current date.

Websites alone are not the way to do genealogy.

Also, family trees on ANY website, free or not free, are subscriber submitted(by folks like you and me) and mostly not documented or poorly documented.  Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different subscribers that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.  There are errors in online family trees.

If anybody has told you they found their family tree online and they are descended from royalty, please tell them unless they have verified the information they have found with records and documentation, they don't know if it is accurate or not.  A lot of people jump to conclusions.  You can make up a tree and take yourself back to a Roman Emperor and it will be accepted.  The owners of the websites themselves do not check and verify anybody's submissions.

As you go back you should have a paper trail of documentation.  INformation online or even in a published book should be checked out if there is not documentation to substantiate it.

Answer 2

This is really simple basically if you are of English, Scot, or Welsh descent and you family has been in the United States

for over 150 years you are probably descented of Royality,

If any of the surnames you are interested in begin with FITZ

it is probably of the "Royal b*****d" line.

There is no way to accurately trace a family lineage without spending some money and everything that is on the Internet is not accurate.  There is no easy way to get the information you are requesting and a good researcher or society would probably be offended that you expect someone to do all that work and not be compensated for the time.

Answer 3

Roots web is a free Genealogy site where you can start looking up family trees by your last name.

Answer 4

> they have you make your own family tree . .

That's how you find out if you are related to royalty, dear. You trace your family tree back until you find the Duke getting frisky with the chambermaid, or the King coupling with anyone who would hold still for 15 minutes.

It takes time and energy. It is too much like homework for most of your youngsters. If you are interested, take the excellent advice you've received already. You can also search the resolved questions in this category for the word "Free". You'll find thousands of answers and hundreds of links.

Answer 5

You can't go to a single GENEALOGY site and find a free family tree that is accurate and includes you.  Maybe your descendants will be able to do that someday, but we're a long way from being able to do that!  I'd recommend you start with:

1.  asking your family about your parents and grandparents and great grandparents.  get as many names, dates, and locations as possible.

2.  start looking them up at www.familysearch.org/, www.usgenweb.org, www.findagrave.com, and doing Google searches for each of their names.  (important note:  this could take YEARS!)

3.  try a Google search for your last name and the word "genealogy" to meet up with distant relatives and start putting pieces together on your own.

Or you could hire a genealogist and pay them by the hour...  but you'd still need to do #1 above, or the genealogist would be spinning his or her wheels (and wasting your money)!

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

There are many sites on the internet that are free, I would first recommend checking out Cindi's List.  (There's even a category called Royalty and Nobility:  http://www.cyndislist.com/royalty.htm.  

You didn't state how far you have traced your history.  If you’re just getting started, before beginning an on-line search, gather up all the information you can from family members about your family history so you can narrow your search.  A great site to help you begin your learning how to research and organize the information you collect and gather is Dulcinea.  http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Fa...  

There are many genealogical sites that are free such as:

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default....  FamilySearch.org is a non-profit service sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  You can also download free software that will help you keep your family tree organized too.

http://usgenweb.org/.  This site has been created by a group of volunteers that are committed to keep genealogy free and have provided a website for genealogical research in every county and state in the United States.

http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ind... . Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.  Genealogy Learning Center.  This site has also has some great getting started tips and free downloadable charts and forms.  

These sites will also lead you to other free sites.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

Ok here is the part to figure out.

You have to make your own family tree first.  If you DON'T know who your ancestor is, how can you 'connect' them to someone royal??

Second-  YOUR personal information (parents, grandparents) has no business being on the internet.  I mean.. HOW FAST would you like the id thieves to open a credit card in your name?  How it works... you do the preliminary stuff in the privacy of your own home.. using your own birth certificate that you have rights to have, and your parents, etc.  Without using the internet, you 'work' back to the point where people are not living,  then the records start to open up.  

If you don't want to mess with doing good research.. you can find family trees (usually with dead persons) online, once you have a name to connect to.  Many of these will be garbage. The problem.. if YOU don't know anything about research, you won't know enough to recognize what is good or bad.

Most sites don't track records. They HAVE records (sometimes.. family trees are not a record).  Like a list of people buried in a cemetery. The site does not know who your relatives are.  You do (or should), so that when you see your gr grandmother's name.. you know it.

http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

I like this guide to getting started.  There are thousands of sites for genealogy online, many of them are free. Some are not. If you really want to find your ancestors, it will take you a few weeks until the light goes on, that the services like ancestry.com are SO MUCH CHEAPER than filling the tank with gas, and going to somewhere to look up the records.

Your ancestors are cool people, and it is a real trip to find info that no one else ever knew, because they are real, and they are yours.

If all you want is royalty.. you won't get past step one, because it does take energy on your part.