Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: What does Distraraiorians mean?” plus 4 more |
- Question: What does Distraraiorians mean?
- Question: What does my ancestry results mean?
- Question: My question is where does the last name Skrenes come from and what does it have ties too?
- Question: How would I go about finding when and where my family immigrated to the states?
- Question: What is the signifance of my two surnames?
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| Question: What does my ancestry results mean? Posted: 02 Oct 2016 02:34 PM PDT Nothing.. you have a story that family have told you, if it is true or not no one knows and then you wasted money on a DNA test which is sold yo make money for the company and entertain the buyer, if you had it done again you would be entertained again as they would send you different results......so the only way to know is to research the real way and that starts with you and the records you already have at home http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin... As you are black and living in the USA, if your ancestors were slaves then you will only be able to research back to 1870 census, it is unlikely to be able to go further as slaves were not classed as people with names but property, however it would still give you more than you have right now, as right now you have guesswork and entertainment only, with research you can find out far more. |
| Question: My question is where does the last name Skrenes come from and what does it have ties too? Posted: 02 Oct 2016 08:14 AM PDT With the "exact spelling" box checked, https://familysearch.org/search/ (the largest free genealogy site in the English-speaking world) has 1,157 records for it. By comparison they have over 150,000 for "Pack", which I know from personal experience is uncommon, and over 28,000,000 for "Smith". So, it's really rare.These are the only collections in the BMD category with 10 or more records: North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000 86 results So, it looks like it came from England, but most of them are in the US of A. Please don't forget to choose a best answer. It doesn't have to be mine. 10 points aren't much, but they tell us you read the answers and we didn't flush 8 minutes of research and/or typing down the toilet. |
| Question: How would I go about finding when and where my family immigrated to the states? Posted: 01 Oct 2016 09:51 PM PDT Ancestry.Com is a great site for a lot of records but don t trust family trees on their website or ANY website. The trees are submitted by the subscribers to the website and no way do the websites hire people to verify what their subscribers submit. So even when you see the absolute same information on the same people from a ton of subscribers don t accept it as fact until you have verified it with records as too many dingies copy without verifying. To do your genealogy you really shouldn t start with the web. Find out what living family has. You start with yourself and work back one generation at a time, documenting everything as you do. You have your birth certificate? It has the names of both of your parents including your mother s maiden name. How about your parents and grandparents? Do they have theirs? Also death certificates usually have the names of both of the parents of the deceased including mother s maiden name. Now you will get back to a time before states started recording births and deaths and then there are church records for baptisms, confirmation, marriage and deaths. Find out if any of your family has certificates on your ancestors from their churches. Find out if they have any old wills, deeds, family photos, family bibles, letters from elderly and deceased relatives. Interview 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 if you go back now and then and listen to the tapes again. You probably will hear things you didn t hear the first time around. Not all family stories pan out but get them anyway. There still can be clues in them. Once you have done some of the above 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 to view there for a fee of about $5. 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 Mormon FHC. https://familysearch.org/locations/cente... Once you have done the above then you will have a better idea as to what to look for online. Probably Ancestry.Com as well as a free site, FamilySearch.org each have more records online than all the others put together. However, no way are all records online. Still you must distinguish between the records they have and their subscriber submitted family trees which you should personally verify with records before accepting as fact. If you run into a snag come back here and ask question giving us as much information as you have as possible. There are people here who have resources that sometimes can find things. |
| Question: What is the signifance of my two surnames? Posted: 01 Oct 2016 08:54 PM PDT This is what the Dictionary of American Family Names has for Carrera Carrera Name Meaning Spanish: topographic name for someone living by a main road, carrera 'thoroughfare', originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum 'cart'), or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word. Southern Italian: habitational name from a place named Carrera, cognate with 1. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press This is what they have for Dies Dies Name Meaning Possibly an altered spelling of German Diess, from a short form of the Biblical name Matthias (see Matthew). German: from the Germanic personal name Teuzo, from theud 'people', 'race' (Old High German diot). Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press Now in genealogy one of the biggest mistakes people make when starting is trying to trace their surnames. When surnames were taken in Europe during the last millennium it wasn't to identify a man as a member of a family necessarily but just to better identify him on records. So 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. |
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