Does anyone no anyway that I could prob. find a way to know who my ancecstors?

Question:Just curious on finding info. on my family heritage or someway that I could find out who my ancestors were? and no Geaneology.com already tried

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Just curious on finding info. on my family heritage or someway that I could find out who my ancestors were? and no Geaneology.com already tried

The best place to start is with family. Gather as much info as you can like where are the majority of your people from. Then you can go to the local court house an they have an archive of marriage, death, birth, property change to find out when and where people came and went and other records that people there can help you to locate. These are some things you can find local. After you have what ever you can find I would go to any local church that preformed marriage funerals ect. for your family. Then you can go to some thing like family tree.com and search to verify your info which as a genealogist will keep you quite busy.

You could call your parents and grandparents and ask them.....

What's your last name, maybe we're related? I have a big family....

I undertstand the Mormon church has a really extensive genealogy of, like, everyone in America or something like that. You could try that.

Lay off...The asker might be adopted, or orphaned. Are you?

If your grandparents are still alive, ask what your great, grandparents names were, what year they were born and what state. Then, with that information you can start looking back through the U.S. Census information. It's a good place to start looking.

Go and join your local family history or genealogy society. They will help you get started.

There isn't "one way" to research your family history because what information is available depends on the time and the place where your ancestors lived. By joining a society you will be able to tap into the expertise of the volunteers and other members who can advise you how best to research your family. The society will have a library of material to help you with your research.

A lot of family history information is not available on the Internet, although there are many useful sites for family historians out there once have you have got started.

Try the web sites below for a start, both are free to use, I would need to know which part of the world you are in to help any further.

Good luck and good hunting

You're in good company. There are several great researchers on this site who will happily help you. Step #1 for you is to make some calls and sit down (preferably with a tape recorder) and start asking questions of the older people in your family.

When/where were they born?
When/where were they married?
Did either of them serve in the military?
What are some of their favorite memories?
Who are/were all of their kids?
When/where were they born?
When/where were they married?
Have any died? If so, how/when/where?
Who are (were) all of their brothers and sisters?
When/where were they born?
When/where were they married?
When/where did any die?
Did any serve in the military?
What are their favorite memories of their brothers and sisters?
(Repeat all questions for the kids of their brothers and sisters)
Who were their parents?
When/where were they born?
When/where were they married?
When/where did they die? Where are they buried?
Did either of them serve in the military?
What are their favorites memories of their parents?
Who were their parents' brothers and sisters?
When/where were they born?
When/where were they married?
When/where did they died? Where are they buried?
Did any serve in the military?
What are their favorite memories of their aunts and uncles?

Keep repeating for grandparents, great aunts/uncles, great-grandparents, etc?

Also make sure you ask about religious beliefs. The farther back you go, the more important it becomes. There was a time (less than 100 years ago) when people didn't always have birth certificates. Churches become important because (unless they're Baptist or SDA), they probably baptize infants and those baptismal records become substitutes for birth certficates.

Once you get all of the information you can from everyone in your family (BTW this is a GREAT Christmas project if everyone in your family gets together over the holidays), you need to organize it. At the following link, you can download the software that the Mormon Church graciously distributes to organize your family tree information (and it's perfectly free): http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/

The nice part of this software is that ALL other programs are compatible with it.

It's only after you get info from the living people in your family that you can start looking for the dead people. The reason is that most of the records you'll need are covered by privacy laws (72-100 years, depending on where you are) and you can't find much on the internet to help you from after the 1930s (2012 is the earliest date on most of that). So you have to have a good idea of exactly who the person is that you're looking for before you can be sure if you have the right records on them.

The last thing I'd suggest is that you contact your local library, historical society or community center and see if anyone in your area offers classes on genealogy research to help you understand which resources will be of them most help to you. Every country, every state and every ethnic group is different.

Good luck to you. I hope this helps a little.

Just a suggestion, if your parents can't answer the questions for you. Check into the hall of records in the county or town that you were born. Your birth certificate would give you the first start. From there, follow the birth records of those on each of the birth records listed on your family or family name. It will cost something, but not as much as if you paid a genealogy company to trace your info. GOOD LUCK.