Where can i find out my family background, family tree..and stuff?..online?

Question:I have been researching about my family for a long time. You will need to get some information first.

1. Full name: Including Middle names and titles if they have one
Ex: John Joe Smith Jr.
2. The persons birth date: Ex 00/00/0000
3. Date of Death if necessary
3. Marriage Date just in case you have to narrow the search field down.
4. SSN: Social Security Number in some cases to again narrow down your search.
5. you may even need the county of birth or death for older ancestors.

Note: Doing this for free is hard and time consuming. You might find you need to purchase some months of subscription to get this done. If you get frustrated or blocked you can employ a person to do this for you. Again you will need as much data as you can find to help that person out.

We have found one side easily but the other has taken a long time to find. This can take a while but well worth the effort. Hang in there and have fun!

Best Wishes, D~

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been researching about my family for a long time. You will need to get some information first.

1. Full name: Including Middle names and titles if they have one
Ex: John Joe Smith Jr.
2. The persons birth date: Ex 00/00/0000
3. Date of Death if necessary
3. Marriage Date just in case you have to narrow the search field down.
4. SSN: Social Security Number in some cases to again narrow down your search.
5. you may even need the county of birth or death for older ancestors.

Note: Doing this for free is hard and time consuming. You might find you need to purchase some months of subscription to get this done. If you get frustrated or blocked you can employ a person to do this for you. Again you will need as much data as you can find to help that person out.

We have found one side easily but the other has taken a long time to find. This can take a while but well worth the effort. Hang in there and have fun!

Best Wishes, D~

You can go to www.ancestry.com webpage. I have a tree on there and am still tracing our family history. I've gone back as far as 0215. It's really a lot of fun.

It is probably waiting for you to research it.

Not everyone's family tree is online. Now, you might find some of your family lines. However, you cannot take for absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and not very much is documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is correct.
A lot of people copy without verifying. Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation.

Start off with your living family and get as much information as possible, particularly from your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. It might turn out they are confused on some things. However what might seem to be insignificant ramblings and story telling migh turn out to be very significant.

Go to your public library and find out what all they have. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can utilize. Ancestry.Com has lots of records and is obtaining more all the time. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have U.K. censuses also.

Still be careful about taking as fact what you see in their family trees. Ancestry World Tree is their oldest and largest program. One World Tree is an absolute mess. I have learned to like the Public Member Trees.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has lots of records, not just on Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view for a nominal fee.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard of them doing it to anyone else.

Courthouse records, wills, deeds, etc.

Vital Records, Births, Deaths, Marriages,
will give names of both parents. Applications for a Social Security Number will also give names and place of birth of both parents including mother's maiden name.

If you are in the U. S., how you obtain these records depend on state laws. In Texas you can actually order certificates online. Up to 75 years after a birth you have to be next of kin and up to 25 years after a death you have to be next of kin. They require your Driver's License Number.
After the 75 and 25 years, you can get a birth or death certificate without being next of kin.

In Texas, it use to be 50 years for births but states are clamping down because of identity theft.

Now in most states, generally governing bodies were not recording vital information until the first quarter of the 20th century. When they started will vary from state to state and once they started often if someone was born at home or died at home they did not get recorded. So, you will have to rely on church records, baptisms, First Communion, Confirmation, Marriages and Deaths

Don't get involved in websites that sell surname products like coats of arms. They sell them solely on a surname and that is not valid. They don't belong to surnames.

See the links below: (One if from the British college-of-arms and the other is from the U. S. National GEnealogical Society.

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

Good Luck!

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