Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Wat nationality does the surname Garrett belong?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Wat nationality does the surname Garrett belong?
- Question: Latvian ancestors: Freeman and Sanders Any info, please.?
- Question: How can I find my distant relatives in Japan?
- Question: Is it possible to know your ancestry if you don't know great grandparents?
- Question: What ethnicity is the surname ' Scales '?
- Question: Where do last names come from?
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| Question: Latvian ancestors: Freeman and Sanders Any info, please.? Posted: 14 Mar 2015 05:34 PM PDT https://familysearch.org/search (free) has 1,710,515 results for Name: Sanders, Event: Birth, Event Range: 1800-1900 and 1,695,998 results for Name: Freeman, Event: Birth, Event Range: 1700-1900 I suspect you'll find your Latvian ancestors changed their names, because both Freeman and Sanders are English, not Latvian. Their Latvian names may have meant "Freeman" or sounded like "Freeman". The Sanders one probably sounded like it. |
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| Question: Is it possible to know your ancestry if you don't know great grandparents? Posted: 14 Mar 2015 11:54 AM PDT Certainly. That is what genealogy is all about. Now, don't rush to the web right away. Talk to living family, aunts, uncles, older cousins, etc. Maybe some have some birth, marriage and death certificates on your ancestors. Did you know that your gandparents' death certificates will have the names of both of their parents including mother's maiden name?. You probably can get the death certificates from the state's vital records in which they died. Maybe some of your family have some old family bibles, old family photos, wills, deeds, letters from your deceased relatives and ancestors that can tell a lot. Interview your senior family members and tape them if they will let you. Chances are they will get into telling stories of days gone by you wouldn't write down but in those stories frequently are clues that will help you break through a brick wall in your research. Go back now and then and listen to the tapes again as you will probably hear things you didn't hear the first time around. Now, a lot of family stories don't always pan out but get them anyway as still there can be clues in them. After you have done the above. Go to your public library and find out what they have in genealogy. Also go to a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. If you find anything in their database you would like to view and print off a copy of an original document, they can order microfilm for you. They have the microfilm readers at the FHC. 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. The following link will help you find the nearest Mormon FHC. https://www.lds.org/locations?lang=eng After you have done some preliminary ground work then you can use the web as a tool only. There are multitude of sites. Look for those that have records, not necessarily family trees. I view a website that only has family trees as a trash website. There are some that have both records and family trees. One is FamilySearch.org which is entirely free and the other is Ancestry.Com which many public libraries have a subscription to you can use for free. |
| Question: What ethnicity is the surname ' Scales '? Posted: 14 Mar 2015 11:47 AM PDT Scales Name Meaning 1) Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived in a rough hut or shed, northern Middle English scale 'hut' (from Old Norse skáli), later also sc(h)ole, or a habitational name from one of the various places named with this word, as for example Scales in Lancashire and Cumbria. 2) The surname has been established in southern Ireland since the 14th century. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press |
| Question: Where do last names come from? Posted: 14 Mar 2015 10:20 AM PDT Most in Europe took one the first part of the last millennium. Actually it wasn't until the early 1800s before the people of the Netherlands and the low countries took a surname. They weren't started originally to identify a man as a member of a family but just to better identify him on records. Too many men named Joe, Bill, Tom, Henry in the same town or village and they had to have a way of sortiing them out better. When they got through it was entirely possible that legitimate sons of the same man could have wound up with a different surname and still each could have shared his with others with no known relationship, even within the same country or nation. So surnames don't prove ancestry or even indicate a relationship. They were pretty much in 4 different categories. To indicate a man was the son of another. A man named William, his sons might have taken the name Williams, Williamson, Wills, etc. Then some of his sons might have taken the name of their occupation. Occupational names Examples: Cook, Baker, Fisher, Barber, Carpenter, Clark(old english for clerk), Wright (for wheelwright) Smith (every little community had to have a blacksmith) and the list goes on. Location names. Sam that lived on or near a hill became Sam Hill but a lot of people who lived on or near a hill tookk the name Hill. The difference in the names Johnson and Johnston. Johnson just meant son of John wile Johnston meant someone who lived in or near Johntown. The "ton" ending on an English name means town or settlement. I have Overton in my family and I presume I had an ancestor that lived over a town. Characteristic or descriptive names: Black, White, Brown usually indicate the color of hair. Then there is Small, Short, Long, Sharp, Fairchild and so many others. It was about the 14th century before most in England had a surname but still in many cases it was a couple of more centuries before the same name was passed down to subsequent generations. The variations of spellings in names in many cases was how a clerk or an official heard a name and wrote it down on a record. So a person could be related to someone with an entirely different spelling and not related to a person who has the same spelling. A lot of people get taken in by surname product peddlers as I was looking for a link to furnish you numerous of those scam merchants popped up. They sell so called surname history scrolls, so called family crest or coats of arms. The coat of arms was/is granted to one indivifdual and certainly not everyone with the same surname. A good way to tell that a coat of arms was purchased from a surname product peddler is it will have a surname on a scroll underneath and sometimes over it. Coats of arms that have been validly granted (or assumed in continental European countries) will not have a surname anywhere attached. |
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