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Question:The Sutton Family. Please include who it was you know or knew of and any info you have on them. Thanks!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Sutton Family. Please include who it was you know or knew of and any info you have on them. Thanks!

This area is full of people who are more than happy to help you... but it looks like the first step is helping you with some basic research tips.
First, there are Suttons all over the world, and they are not all going to be related to you. Your focus is on your direct family, and since you are living, certain records will only be accessible to you. The very first step in genealogy is to make notes about YOUR immediate family... parents and siblings. Even though you KNOW (or believe) certain facts, it is still critical to get used to the process of using documentation to support what you have. Next, link each of your parents to their parents and siblings, again... using available records such as birth or death certs, obituaries, photos, etc.
Doing this methodically, you KNOW which are your relatives. And, you'll also start seeing that you want info about the Suttons in perhaps, Dallas county, Texas, not in England.
I looked in the social security death index for Orval Sutton. There are six of them. Which one is YOURS? It happens that I made the effort to go back and check your prior questions. Without that, I'd be stuck right there. The fact is that most persons won't take the time to figure that part out..
One rule of thumb is that info re living persons is private, and should not be online. That does not mean you should not find or talk to your living relatives. The goal is to protect you (or others) from having personal info abused, ie identity theft.
Orval's death certificate is where you would expect to find the names of his parents, place of his birth. More details would be in his obituary. If he was a prominent person, you might find a biography of him. Once you get 'past' the live persons, you can expect to find historical records. The census is one major tool that you will use for details of age/ birth place, siblings.. as well as 'putting' them in a location. Once you have the location, then you evaluate the types of records relating to that place, that could help you. Example.. some counties have volunteers who have walked all the cemeteries, and posted the surveys online.
Please don't take this as hostile!! I love seeing people find their ancestors. If you ask for help to prove the marriage date for John Sutton and Mary Smith, who lived in <fill in the blank>, you will get TONS more feedback, than a general question about the Sutton "family".
www.rootsweb.com has an excellent guide to beginning research on its front page. If you click on searches, you can also reach the social security death index, which is of great help relating to deaths in the last 50 yrs. (you can use the advanced search to find all Suttons who died in a given state or county).
And there are always people here that can help as you go along.

Are the 'Sutton' family that you refer to in England, if they are then I do know of a 'Sutton' family and I'm related through marriage. Could you edit your questionnand let me know if thats close enough for you.

Bob Sutton, raised on a sheep station in Western Australia, joined the RAF in 1939, spent six years in a Spitfire. Came back, married and started a sport-fishing business in Perth. He and I used to catch and release black marlin in the Indian Ocean while drinking Fosters. Heck of a nice guy. Tall, red-headed man, walked with a limp, scar on his cheek he used to say was an old war wound. We knew he got it in a pub in1944 from an uppity Yank in the 101st. They were competing for the favors of a young lady from Kent whose privates were impossibly bent.

I know people named Sutton from central Michigan, northern Michigan (no relation), Detroit, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, New York, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Could you narrow down your inquiry to a smaller geographic area, cuz this is one of those really popular names that doesn't have a lot of links to other people with the same name, but they abound and multiply well wherever they're planted.