I want to do this so bad but don't even know where to start
Anyone ever traced their family tree?
- Thread starter BrothaZay
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ya parents parents parents...
No you don't. You'll find out you ancestors were respectable members of society and didn't participate in crime or gangs and be upset.
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My father did a few years ago. Unfortunately, when he decided to tell me all about the research, I was really high and on the phone so my attention span fluctuated while he talked.
Will ask him again in near future...
Will ask him again in near future...
Do a free trial on Ancestry.com, and then cancel that shyt before they charge you. I'm not talking about taking the stupid DNA test, either. The Ancestry website lets you trace your family history through census, birth, and death records. It is very valuable. Once again, record the information, and cancel the subscription before the free trial is over. Free game.
How long is the free trial and how long would it take to trace everything
Yep but once I got to slavery it was hard to go down my black side. The fukked up slave owners have trees that go all the way back to Europe though. Like 10, 15 generations.
I traced my mother's side back to a slave born in SC in 1845. Traced my fathers side back to a slave in the 1820's.
Alot of the online ancestry sites help. Use birth certificates, census records, military draft records, etc.
Alot of the online ancestry sites help. Use birth certificates, census records, military draft records, etc.
Yeah for me i would have had to probably go look at actual paper documents in some county office somewhere to go any further.
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Found out I'm part anaconda
Your girl knows.
Your girl knows.
Yep, I’ve did my father’s side of the family. My mother’s side had already been traced back for years going back to the late 1600s done by older family members back in like the 1950s. We actually got family books on that side.
Genealogy can be time consuming but addictive.
It’s a lot that goes into genealogical research so it would probably be better for a few posters to start a very detailed genealogical thread in the Root but to start off, your goal should be to try to map out a tree of your current family members that you know before you start tackling those that you don’t know. Then for each of those family members try to find 1) birth certicate 2) marriage record 3) death certicate (if applicable) 4) census record for each decade they were alive. You want to obtain all of these records for each individual family member. These records are the basic and don’t include others such as military records, tax records, socials, newspaper articles, etc that you can obtain for each person. Your goal should be to paint a picture, through records, of the lives of the people that you are trying to document.
After you tackle those current members that you know, you can move on to those that you don’t. And there are a lot of strategies one can incorporate in finding those other relatives.
First you need to identify why you want to do genealogy. Is it to piece together a family story or is it to just find out your lineage. If it’s the latter, then you don’t have to do the tedious work of collecting records. However you will need to know how to look at them and parse through information because many of them, like census records or death records, will give details about lineage that will help you enlarge your tree.
Ancestry.com is the most popular site to get started on.
Genealogy can be time consuming but addictive.
It’s a lot that goes into genealogical research so it would probably be better for a few posters to start a very detailed genealogical thread in the Root but to start off, your goal should be to try to map out a tree of your current family members that you know before you start tackling those that you don’t know. Then for each of those family members try to find 1) birth certicate 2) marriage record 3) death certicate (if applicable) 4) census record for each decade they were alive. You want to obtain all of these records for each individual family member. These records are the basic and don’t include others such as military records, tax records, socials, newspaper articles, etc that you can obtain for each person. Your goal should be to paint a picture, through records, of the lives of the people that you are trying to document.
After you tackle those current members that you know, you can move on to those that you don’t. And there are a lot of strategies one can incorporate in finding those other relatives.
First you need to identify why you want to do genealogy. Is it to piece together a family story or is it to just find out your lineage. If it’s the latter, then you don’t have to do the tedious work of collecting records. However you will need to know how to look at them and parse through information because many of them, like census records or death records, will give details about lineage that will help you enlarge your tree.
Ancestry.com is the most popular site to get started on.
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