Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: I need help finding my family?” plus 5 more |
- Question: I need help finding my family?
- Question: My last name is tricque what my origin ?
- Question: How do I find out about my ancestors ?? For a school project and without paying anything?
- Question: Is this a third cousin, twice removed?
- Question: Genealogy Research on grandfather accurate?
- Question: What country/Heritage is the last name "Smith" from?
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| Question: How do I find out about my ancestors ?? For a school project and without paying anything? Posted: 24 Nov 2016 05:51 PM PST The way to find your ancestry is to start with yourself and work back one generation at a time, documenting everything as you do. However, most of your classmates are probably going to go into some website and see if they find their family in one of the subscriber submitted family trees and copy what is there. When they do that they don't know if the information is accurate or not. Family trees on any website, free or fee, should never be taken as fact until verified with actual records. They are submitted by the subscribers to the websites and even when you see the absolute same information on the same people from a ton of subscribers that doesn't mean it is accurate as too many dingies copy without verifying No way do the websites hire people to verify what their subscribers submit. It would cost a fortune. However, I frown on such projects for students unless it is an optional assignment. Your teacher might not be aware of it but what he/she is doing is intruding where he/she has no right to intrude. There are kids from broken families. Some have no contact with a parent. A lot of heartache there. There can be horrible tragedies. I know of a situation where a man went down to school board and stopped such an assignment and then a grandfather went by his house and thanked him. She that grandfather's daughter's children had such an assignment. His daughter's mother was in prison due to a horrible massacre of a family His daughter as a child was in therapy about 4 years when she was a child because of it. The project meant she would be confronted with the tragedy again by one of her children's teachers So, please make a copy of what I have posted and put it on your teacher's desk. This should never be a required assignment. If so, someone needs to take it up with your school's administration and if that doesn't work, then the school board. The way to find your family history. Get your birth certificate. It will have the names of both of your parents including your mother's maiden name. Maybe your parents and grandparents have theirs. Also death certificates also usually have the names of both parents of the deceased including mother' s maiden name. Now you will get back to a time before in the U.S. before births and deaths were recorded, then church records can be helpful. This can differ from state to state. Talk to living family Maybe some have some birth, marriage death certificates on your ancestors. Maybe they have some baptismal, confirmation, marriage and death records on your ancestors from their churches. Maybe they have some old family bibles, old family photos, wills, deeds, 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. It is wise to 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, not all family stories pan out but get them anyway. There still can be clues in them. 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 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... After you have done the above, use the web as a tool only. Look for websites have have actual records. Some have subscriber submitted family trees and records. Distinguish the difference. Two I like which I believe each have more records online than all the others but together are FamilySearch.org which is entirely free and Ancestry.Com which many public libraries have a subscription to use can use for free. Ancestry.Com's ads and promotions are misleading but still it is website with locks of records Sometimes they have the original images and sometimes only on an index, but when only on an index it is far less costly to write the county courthouse, state library or whatever and get copy than travel many miles across country to get it. Now, no way are all records online |
| Question: Is this a third cousin, twice removed? Posted: 24 Nov 2016 06:18 AM PST Yes. We usually number the greats to make it easier. Your 2nd great grandmother is his 4th great grandmother. His grandparent and you have a 2nd great grandmother in common. That makes you and his grandparent 3rd cousins. The newborn is 2 generations removed from you, which makes him a 3C2R. (If you don't share a 2nd great grandfather, you are half cousins, not full cousins.) |
| Question: Genealogy Research on grandfather accurate? Posted: 24 Nov 2016 02:12 AM PST Of course it could be wrong especially if you are only looking at census records which are secondary records and you need primary records and each and every primary record he generated during his lifetime. Remember his mother was your mothers grandma, so she is likely to know her name, of course there is also the possibility that his mother died and his father remarried and that person was the women your mother thought and was brought up to think of as her grandmother of course it could be his mother and she is using her middle name, or there is a mistake on the census ( lots of mistakes on census) ...... all of course you can prove/disprove as there will be records to do so A primary record would be your grandfathers birth cert or the parish record of his baptism. |
| Question: What country/Heritage is the last name "Smith" from? Posted: 23 Nov 2016 11:53 PM PST Americans with the name smith have two possible ways. Their ancestry was from Britain and were smiths ( as in black smiths) Their ancestry was from the Netherlands or the German speaking world and were named Smid or Smit which means Smith and changed it to the English spelling. In the case of the Dutch basically a lot of people just stated their profession when permanent last names were introduced and there isn't a one family Smid it originated from. The Dutch had descriptions instead of last names in the lower class until the Napoleonic occupation, it used to be a nobility thing. People were called " the elder" or " Jan's son " or " the tall " and as a result their descendants are called " de Oude " "Jansen/Janszn/Janszoon/Janssen" and " de Lange" now. |
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