Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Can I found out more about my ancestry with a Bureau of the Census?” plus 4 more |
- Question: Can I found out more about my ancestry with a Bureau of the Census?
- Question: Ok a swedish genealogy question... Attached is a document, witha 5 words circled... id like to know what this means....?
- Question: Trying to figure how to find my ancestors/tribe?
- Question: Where does last name O'farrill come from?
- Question: Would you take a Ancestry Dna test for $100 dollars?
| Question: Can I found out more about my ancestry with a Bureau of the Census? Posted: 22 Mar 2015 05:19 PM PDT The census is only one tool in genealogy. Also a census is not a primary record and you have to understand the census takers had no earthly idea that 100-150 years later people would be pouring over the censuses trying to find their family history. As Maxi stated you start off trying to find what records living family has. Oh they just might have some birth, marriage and death certificates on ancestors, family bibles, family photos. wills, deeds, letter from deceased or elderly aunts and uncle, and deceased ancestors. Also baptismal, confirmation, marriage records from churches can be very valuable information. Then Family History Centers at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church have records on people all over the world, not just Mormon. They can order microfilm of original documents which you can view and print off a copy if you find anything at all in their database on your ancestors. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources, A lot of their volunteers are not Mormon. Use the following link to find the nearest Mormonn FHC. Find ouf what your local library has in genealogy. Also another note regarding census. If you are looking for American ceususes the first census began in 1790 and it wasn't unitil 1850 that all family members were enumerated. Until then they gave the name of just the head of household. Then after 1940 the census is not available to the public for privacy reasons. Also on websites look for those with records. Family trees on ANY website should not be trusted until verified with actual records. This is true if you see the absolute same information on the same people from a ton of subscribers as too many people copy without verifying. Two that have both trees and records are FamilySearch.org which is entirely free and Ancestry.Com which many public libraries have a subscription to you can use for free. They both also have the censuses available. Just be cautious of family trees on any of them.  |
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| Question: Trying to figure how to find my ancestors/tribe? Posted: 22 Mar 2015 02:06 PM PDT Regardless of how people stereotype you, it really is their ignorance and nothing more. EVERYONE if they want to really know who their ancestors are has to put the research in which can take years to find their ancestors, and it is not online, online is only ever a help and only to people who know how to research and prove their ancestry. So you start with YOU and all the free records you have already in your own home one step at a time, one person at a time, proving each before moving on to the next generation back http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin... |
| Question: Where does last name O'farrill come from? Posted: 21 Mar 2015 08:27 PM PDT Surnames are words and words come from languages not countries, so language heard, spoken or which influenced the first of your ancestors to take or be given a surname. "O" prefix is exclusively Irish and means "descendant of" in this case a guy whose given name was farrill which could be one of the many English language variants of the Irish given name Fearghal. Nor does it mean you have any ancestry from Ireland, nor does it mean people travelled and bred, however language travels and it ( at this point in time) means someone in your ancestry heard, spoke or was influenced by more than likely the English language very possibly spoken by an Irish man,and either liked the name and used it for himself or was given that name which later became your family name..so until you put the time in and research you will never know |
| Question: Would you take a Ancestry Dna test for $100 dollars? Posted: 21 Mar 2015 07:53 PM PDT Well if I had plenty of loose change, maybe so. It has a lot to do with what you expect and we find a lot of people asking questions are expecting something more than what they get. There are 4 types of DNA. Y, X, Autosomal and Mitochondrial. Y and X are the 2 sex chromosomes. A male gets Y from his father and X from his mother. Normally a female gets X from her mother and her father. Some females get Y and if you are a female and have ovaries and a menstrual period you are not one of them,. Autosomal is what most of your DNA is. It is the DNA that determines your "looks" genetically as well as alleles for any health issues. You get it 50-50 from both parents but when your parents passed on the Autosomal they received from their parents to you it went through a process called "meiosis" where it was randomly jumbled and recombined. So while you got 50% from your mother's side and 50% from your father's, there usually will be a bias in what you inherited from grandmother and grandfather on both sides of the family. In other words you could have received anywhere from 0 to 50% from any one grandparent. The gap usually isn't that big but can be. How you inherited any bias will not be how your siblings inherited it unless you have an identical twin. Mitochondrial is in the cytoplasm or connective tissues of all your cells and is passed from mother to both sons and daughters but only the daughters pass it to the next generation. For years people have used Y & Mitochondrial testing and with each they will assign a person to a Haplogroup and show them the origin of their ancestors going way back in time. However, a male gets each from only one person in each generation he goes back and a female gets only her Mitochondrial from one person in each generation she goes back. So get back to your 32 great great great grandparents and if you are a male and have both tested 30 of them will not be included in the results. If you are a female and can only have your Mitochondrial tested 31 of them will not be included in the results. Now for the overall testing they use Autosomal along with the X. This type of testing is more complicated and not as exact as Y & Mitochondrial but better represents you overall ancestry. However understand if you and a full siblings were both tested by the same company at the same time, your results will not be the same. Example: You might have received more Autosomal from a Scandinavian grandfather and your brother or sister might have received more from a North African (perhaps Egyptian) grandmother. Also it has been reported if you go to more than one company the results will not the same. This is because there are no Haplogroups with Autosomal. The only thing they can do is match you with population samples they have obtained. So if one does not have or is deficient in certain population samples another has and vice versa, the The X is a little complicated also. If you are a male you got X from your mother but she got X from both her mother and her father. Whose X did you get, your maternal grandmother's or your maternal grandfather's? There is no definite pattern. Now where any type of genealogy DNA is helpful is if they have cousins of yours going back several generations in their database, they can advise you and if you are able to make contact with any cousins and if you are both involved in traditional genealogy using documents/records you are in a position to collaborate information. You might have information your newly found cousin doesn't have and he or she might have information you don't have. There are people who have found the genealogy DNA tests helpful this way. |
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