How do i find my roots like my last name where was it first heard?

Question:yeah......plz help just wanna find mine plz send me a site url to something that can help me or something lol

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: yeah......plz help just wanna find mine plz send me a site url to something that can help me or something lol

Have a look at what www.ancestry.com has to say about your name, it's free to use as well.
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Krauser-na...
Hope this helps.

talk to the old people in your family.

Surnames have not always been used. Not everyone with the same surname are necessarily related unless you go back to the origins of mankind. Some think the whole human race began from one single couple in Africa about 100,000 years ago.
So, a more accurate way to put it is that not everyone with the same surname comes from the same root person of that surname.

Searching your surname is not the best way to discover your roots. The best way to know you heritage is to trace your ancestry starting with you and working back one generation at a time. Anytime you wish to do this, there are lots of good people on this board that can give you some great tips and advice.

The Normans are the rulers that started surnames and they did so for taxation purposes. Your surname may indicate the root person of your surname was the son of someone, like Johnson, Jones, Williams,
etc. Before they had surname John's son Henry just signed his name Henry son of John. That is if he could write. He became Henry Johnson or Henry Jones but there were other men whose father's name was John that took the name Johnson or Jones.

Then there were people who took their surname from an occupation, Smith, Miller, Baker, Taylor, Fisher,Carpenter, Barber, Clark(clerk), and the list goes on and on John's son George was a blacksmith and he became known as George Smith. However, there were a lot of guys who had the same occupation that took their surname from that occupation.

Some took their names from the town, castle, river or whatever they lived close to.
But others that lived close to the same town, river or castle also took the same name.

Some took their name if they lived on or near a hill, like Sam Hill. He wasn't the only one living close to or on a hill that took the name Hill. One of my great grandmothers was an Overton which simply means over town. So a lot of people just took the name Overton because they lived over a town.

Then some had some characteristic about them. Stout, Shart, Sharp, Black(meaning black hair) etc. But there were a lot of guys that fit that description.

Legitimate sons of the same man could have taken different surnames and they shared their surnames with others that were not related.

See the link from the National Genealogical Society regarding surname products

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