-You research it starting with yourself and working back one generation at a time. There are lots of websites. Look for the ones that have records. Family trees n any genealogy website are the most unreliable things they have. They are subscriber submitted, poorly documented if at all. Even when you see the absolute same information on the same people from many different subscribers that doesn't mean the information is correct. Too many people copy without verifying.
Start with living family and get as much information as possible. Find out if anyone has any old family bibles. It would be wise to get copies of any birth, marriage and death certificates they might have. Depending on the religious faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates from their church can frequently be just as helpful if not more so than civil records.
Interview your senior members and tape them if they will let you. Chances are they will get into telling stories of days gone by you wouldn't write down but in those stories frequently there are clues if you go back and listen to the tape again while doing research. Frequently people hear things they didn't hear the first time around.
Go to a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their FHCs can order microfilm for you to view for about $3 if you find persons in their database you feel is your family. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources.
Use the link below to find the nearest Mormon FHC.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/鈥?/a>
As far as websites they are 2 that probably have more records in one website than any.
Ancestry.Com. If you find it too pricey, many public libraries have a subscription to it you can use for free. When I go into their website after I click on Search on the next page I click on Old Search which is on the right toward the top in very small letters. I feel I can get down to business and start selecting records I want to check. Their New Search is prettier but I find their Old Search is more functional. Just distinguish between the records they have obtained and put online and their subscriber submitted family trees.
Also this website which is free. https://www.familysearch.org/ This is a free website and they are still adding records to it. Once they are through very likely no other website will be able to touch it.You research it starting with yourself and working back one generation at a time. There are lots of websites. Look for the ones that have records. Family trees n any genealogy website are the most unreliable things they have. They are subscriber submitted, poorly documented if at all. Even when you see the absolute same information on the same people from many different subscribers that doesn't mean the information is correct. Too many people copy without verifying.
Start with living family and get as much information as possible. Find out if anyone has any old family bibles. It would be wise to get copies of any birth, marriage and death certificates they might have. Depending on the religious faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates from their church can frequently be just as helpful if not more so than civil records.
Interview your senior members and tape them if they will let you. Chances are they will get into telling stories of days gone by you wouldn't write down but in those stories frequently there are clues if you go back and listen to the tape again while doing research. Frequently people hear things they didn't hear the first time around.
Go to a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their FHCs can order microfilm for you to view for about $3 if you find persons in their database you feel is your family. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources.
Use the link below to find the nearest Mormon FHC.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/鈥?/a>
As far as websites they are 2 that probably have more records in one website than any.
Ancestry.Com. If you find it too pricey, many public libraries have a subscription to it you can use for free. When I go into their website after I click on Search on the next page I click on Old Search which is on the right toward the top in very small letters. I feel I can get down to business and start selecting records I want to check. Their New Search is prettier but I find their Old Search is more functional. Just distinguish between the records they have obtained and put online and their subscriber submitted family trees.
Also this website which is free. https://www.familysearch.org/ This is a free website and they are still adding records to it. Once they are through very likely no other website will be able to touch it.Not as easy as 'looking it up' you have to research using records and build your ancestry http://www.familytimeline.webs.com/ you start with yourself and use documents you already have at home and in the homes of your relations and that will get you 3-5 generations and also give you enough information to be able to then go on and research public records...the last place you START is online as you will be looking for information that is not available
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