How can i trace my ancestry?

Question:I keep running into dead ends. I found out like 2 things but i want to know more. I have already joined ancestry.com. any other ideas??

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I keep running into dead ends. I found out like 2 things but i want to know more. I have already joined ancestry.com. any other ideas??

its pretty much impossible for our time.

considering people didnt really keep track, and what I mean by that is, not everything is available on the internet.

I doubt some 90 year old woman is going to post her ancestry online.

In the future that might be easier, considering people are being born with all this technology, but atm I dont think you can find much news on ordinary people 100-200 etc years ago :)

create family tree document
talk to your relatives (near and distant)
research your last name on the internet
look at ellis island website

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To start with get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. What might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very significant. See if any has any old family bibles. Make copies of birth, marriage and death certificates. Birth and death certificates have names of both parents including mother's maiden names. That also can be true of some records for some religious faiths, baptisms, first communion, confirmation, marriage and death for many religions will have names of both parents including mother's maiden name.

Use your Ancestry.Com membership to check records. They have a lot. However, don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The info is submitted by folks like you and me and most of it is not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information over and over by many different subscribers 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.

Your public library might have a lot of useful resources.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon)Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. They are free to use but you need to find out their hours for the general public. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.

I have never had them to try and convert me or ring my doorbell. I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else either.

While you are at your library and at the Family History Center you will no doubt have an excellent opportunity to talk with other researchers and sharing ideas and experiences with each other is how most people learn.

Good Luck!

Birth certificates are a good place to start

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