I am trying to find the "Arterburn" family history?

Question:My sister and I have been looking into our family's past but have found very little, due I'm sure, to the fact that our family is spread out and many do not speak to one another (please don't tell me to call long lost realatives...I don't even know most of them).

Who knows something about the Arterburns? Are you an Arterburn or is someone that you know an Arterburn?
What we DO know is that all of the Arterburns are related and have been traced back to one German family....but that is where our knowledge begins and ends. Help if you can.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My sister and I have been looking into our family's past but have found very little, due I'm sure, to the fact that our family is spread out and many do not speak to one another (please don't tell me to call long lost realatives...I don't even know most of them).

Who knows something about the Arterburns? Are you an Arterburn or is someone that you know an Arterburn?
What we DO know is that all of the Arterburns are related and have been traced back to one German family....but that is where our knowledge begins and ends. Help if you can.

Family is always a help if you have them, but if none were living, your source would be historical records. If your (grandparents) are not living, they are probably in the social security death index, from which you can use the date to get death certs and/or obits. Relatives born prior to 1930 would normally be in the census, and with luck, that often takes you back to the late 1700s or early 1800s.
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?o...
this is ONE Arterburn file that goes back into VA; and if you are correct, you may tie into this somewhere. You still need to work from the present back... these files will normally NOT inlcude living persons. And..ALWAYS understand that these are not original records, they can have errors.
If you click from this file to the main page of rootsweb, they also have a great tutorial for beginning. Once you take a few minutes to browse that, you can start with what you have. And, this area is always open for tips and advice.

Hello: There is a message board on Rootsweb for Arterburn family research, where you can ask questions and find researchers interested in that family. The link is given below.

Best wishes

Norm

Yes...I've heard about you Arterburns...

I heard the women folk in your family are kinda' "schmexy..."

Yah Yeah!