Where can I find out my family history?

Question

I have to do a geneology report for English class. But I've looked at a lot of wesites and I still can't find anything. I looked up on the web for my Grandfather's name but all I found was an article on him and a wikipedia page on him. But nothing else. And unfortunatley its hard to ask a 90 year old man questions about your family .

Answer 1

Hmm... I am not sure. Google "Find Your Family History" or something...

Answer 2

Your teacher is a fool. I wish you would print this off for him/her. Tracing your family tree is like fishing. It takes skill and practice. Asking students who have never done it before to do it is like asking someone who had never fished before to head out into the mountains with a fly rod and come back with enough rainbow trout to feed 100 people.

If you are in the USA and most of your ancestors were here, an experienced genealogist could probably trace most of your ancestors back to 1850 or their arrival, whichever came first, in 100 - 300 hours. (Only back to 1870 if you are black.) That is two and a half weeks of full-time work at a minimum, for an experienced person. Asking students to do it (unless that is your only assignment for the rest of the school year, and the school will pay for your census image subscription) is ridiculous.

You can try

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

or

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

The links at the top are advertisements. They mislead beginners. Ignore them and scroll down.