Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Surname Origin?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Surname Origin?
- Question: Any ideas about this surname?
- Question: How accurate are genealogy sites that are on the Internet?
- Question: Are there any genealogy websites that are actually free?
- Question: Where does the name Gypsi de neve come from?
- Question: My gt grandmother's maiden name was Gordon. I know the name is Scottish. Any history on the clan and possibly my ancestors?
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| Question: How accurate are genealogy sites that are on the Internet? Posted: 02 Apr 2015 04:16 PM PDT They vary. The records may be wrong too. As an example, if you have a spouse or close friend, ask yourself where his/her parents were born - what state. Now pretend he/she is your spouse, it is 1880, and the census enumerator is at the door, asking that vary question. On RWWC, Genealogy is full of mistakes. My favorite example; if Great grandma had an affair with the hired man, but both he and her hubby were tall, brown-haired men with big noses, AND neither GGM or HM ever told, the resulting child would grow up thinking her husband was his dad. You could have census records from 1850 - 1920, a birth certificate, a death certificate, an obituary and a two-column biography in the "Biographical and Pictorial History of Lake County", and they'd all be wrong. Only a DNA test would prove GGM fooled around. Another common but minor one - if someone dies in his sleep, it's a coin toss if he died before or after midnight, so his death date may be off by one day. As a general rule, go for the records, and treat other people's compiled family trees as clues and hints, nothing else. |
| Question: Are there any genealogy websites that are actually free? Posted: 02 Apr 2015 01:29 PM PDT You should look at the resolved ("Discover") questions. Either browse them or use the advanced search at least three times, for the words Free family tree People ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree, for free?" 4 - 14 times a day here. All of us top 10 have stock answers. After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer, the rest don't bother. All the stock answers are well worth reading. All of us top 10 are warm, wise, witty, well-read and, above all, devilishly handsome. We have quite a bit of overlap on our favorite links, but we emphasize different aspects of the hunt in our advice. Here is my stock answer: There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites, but 1) They don't pay Google to come up in first place. You have to pay attention to those words, "Ads" in VERY small type, and ignore those results. 2) Some of the free ones have ads, which ask you for a name, then take you to a pay site. You have to pay attention to the form. In either case, if you don't pay attention, you'll end up on one of those sites where the search is free, but seeing the results costs you money. They are dishonest, in my opinion, but they didn't ask my opinion. 3) With very rare exception, all the free sites do is give you data to let you research your tree. They won't show you your tree. The exception is when someone, like your great-aunt, has done the work and uploaded it. Among those free sites (without http://) www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. I have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade through some advice and warnings first. If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one of their international sub-sites, 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, 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 the "new look" from August 2008. 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 tricky. If you've read this far, (I've made that offer since 2012; so far, no one has taken me up on it. I suspect no one reads this far.) |
| Question: Where does the name Gypsi de neve come from? Posted: 02 Apr 2015 01:26 PM PDT Denef(v)e, a French language habitational surname. It comes from the Latin langauge word nivātus means snow-cooled or glacier De means "of" or "from" again from the Latin language, used in Middle English, Spanish and French languages all languages with its foundations in Latin, along with most other European langauges Gypsi is a discriptive Romany lanaguge word meaning a nomadic person ....freedom or inclination to move from place to place. |
| Posted: 02 Apr 2015 11:14 AM PDT Surname tracing is not a way to find your family history. You will probably not find everyone named Gordon shares the same ancestors. You start with yourself and work back one generation at a time documenting everything you do. As far as websites, there are lots of them. Some only have family trees which I consider trash websites and some have records and family trees. Distinguish the difference. Family trees on them are not records but their subscribers' submissions and even when you see the same information on the same people from many different subscribers that doesn't mean it is accurate as too many people copy without verifying. This is true not only of free websites but fee websites. It would cost them a fortune to hire people to verify all the information their subscribers submit. Look at it this way, your ancestors with certain surnames had a family history but surnames themselves do not have a family history despite the peddlers of surname products who want to make you think they do. Those are the people who sell "surname history scrolls" and so called 'family coats of arms." They usually use the misnomer "family crest.' A crest is merely part of a coat of arms. The Scots are tough when it comes to others using a coat of arms that doesn't belong to them. Only the clan chief can use a full coat of arms and other clansmen can wear the crest portion enclosed in a belt." http://www.lyon-court.com/lordlyon/216.1... They will file criminal charges against anyone using a coat of arms that belongs to another. |
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