Finding Your Roots: Ancestry/Genealogy Thread

[Oceanicpuppy]

If your interested in genealogy and tracing back your family roots.
Here are helpful video's just to get beginners started . Feel free to to post up any helpful websites/videos/tips, pose questions or just tell us of your family history.

For those who don't want to pay for the subscription at Ancestry.com
And want start your journey, you can join FamilySearch.org https://familysearch.org for free.

For African Americans



Very in detailed lecture to help you get started.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

For AA's in Louisiana.

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

I'm a Kemetian Hebrew Moorish Native American.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

I'm a Kemetian Hebrew Moorish Native American.

Post some documents and how you climbed up your genealogical latter. How did you break through some of your brick walls?

Spoiler

If you're gonna troll in this thread you better have your receipts.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

For Native American Ancestry

 

[egobiggs]

Probably the darkest side of being African-American is being robbed of your lineage.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Probably the darkest side of being African-American is being robbed of your lineage.

It sucks but it's not impossible to find your ancestors it's just a little harder.
One of things African Americans assume is that they can't trace their lineage back when they hit 1870 but surprisingly their was number of free blacks during this time even in the south that are recorded in the census. It was probably the generation before that were slaves.
Even after that you can still trace what plantations they were on and follow the paper trail of documents.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Excellent thread, there's one in the higher learning discussing something like this kind of, you can see my post there

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/disg...r-of-my-ancestors.253164/page-4#post-10286359

I started this recently trying to trace my roots back in Dominican Republic and I skipped the middle man and contacted the government directly (office records) and there helping me track down some information

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Excellent thread, there's one in the higher learning discussing something like this kind of, you can see my post there

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/disg...r-of-my-ancestors.253164/page-4#post-10286359

I started this recently trying to trace my roots back in Dominican Republic and I skipped the middle man and contacted the government directly (office records) and there helping me track down some information

You've gotten pretty far that's great! Ancestry has a lot of documents, they Just launched the Caribbean slave records I think they have some census as well, the search function is just for newbies so it fustrating . Also I know familysearch has some info that Ancestry does have. Like indexes and Slave Schedules.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

For Caribbean Ancestry



http://www.cyndislist.com/caribbean/records/
@midwesthiphop a few DR documents are on their as well.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Friendly Tip: Check for Siblings! Don't leave your aunts and uncles, great uncles and aunts, and great great aunts and uncles out the search, they may have documents like deaths certificates, birth certificates, etc with the parents names(often the mothers maiden name) on them and what location they were in at the time. They are a great sources.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Trying to search for my families roots on my mothers side.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Trying to search for my families roots on my mothers side.

Where are they from? Maybe I can help.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Where are they from? Maybe I can help.

A good number of us were born in NY, but we all trace our roots back to North Carolina. Wilson, N.C. specifically.

I still have some family in N.C.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

A good number of us were born in NY, but we all trace our roots back to North Carolina. Wilson, N.C. specifically.

I still have some family in N.C.

Ahh lucky, How far does your family go back in NY? NY has great records. I know they have a State census every 5 years. When I was looking for my family records from the late 1890s I found out the US 1890 census was destroyed in a fire . New York and a few other states were the only ones with state census around that time.