Boy Kid Wonder Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Decided to search for my family tree and ancestors and all that. I am having horrible luck, I would be happy to find a famous person within my history, but I doubt such will happen. Anyone here search for their ancestry and have an effective way to go about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Best way is to get as much info from your elder relatives as possible. Then, use that information to find more information. Ancestry.com is a good place to start but you can't get much info for free. Also, a Family Tree software program can provide you with good info as well. But nothing will beat the stuff you get for free from your grandparents, great-grandparents, aunt, uncles, etc. Not only that, they'll have some great stories to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nympha Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Lessee. I have an aunt who is into the family tree thing. Has us traced all the way back to england, france, Ireland. All the clans we came from, all that good stuff. All I have to say. John Adams and John Quince Adams. Relatives of mine! Woohoo! I'm famous! Riiiiight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Lessee. I have an aunt who is into the family tree thing. Has us traced all the way back to england, france, Ireland. All the clans we came from, all that good stuff. All I have to say. John Adams and John Quince Adams. Relatives of mine! Woohoo! I'm famous! Riiiiight. I always figured you were more along the lines of Morticia Addams than John Qunicey Adams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zrothum Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Any devout catholics here? Any fans of 'The Sound of Music' ? I have very strong family ties with Anna Katherine Emmerich, a very influential catholic, whose life and visions inspired The Passion of Christ. Anne Katherine Emmerich was a relative of the Von Trap family, the main family in The Sound of Music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiere Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Well, it would depend on where you are, but there's pretty much the best family history place in the world in Salt Lake City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Well' date=' it would depend on where you are, but there's pretty much the best family history place in the world in Salt Lake City.[/quote'] Among other sources, Ancestry.com uses the Latter-Day Saints archives and US Census records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rairen Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 My relatives have done some rather exhaustive searches. Normally, through family legend, they'll know where the family has lived. From there, they'll go through census records, church archives (Catholics are brilliant about that), immigration forms, labor records... all that sort of fun stuff. On a trip to Ireland, my aunt and uncle even took time to go through church records there. It doesn't hurt to know your ethnic background - assuming you're an American, it can determine how much of your family history has actually occured in the US. Also, you're really lucky if you have an interesting name. Tracing the history of your branch of the Smith family would not be a pleasant task. Either way, once you get to a point, it's a pretty painstaking, time-intensive hobby to find information. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorCleric Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Decided to search for my family tree and ancestors and all that. I am having horrible luck' date=' I would be happy to find a famous person within my history, but I doubt such will happen. Anyone here search for their ancestry and have an effective way to go about it?[/quote'] My families ancestry is sorta win some lose some I guess. The main sense of family pride is from my father's father's side, and that only goes back as far as he. My grandfather was an orphan, and all we really have to go on is that my Great Grandfather's name was Adolf Meixner. Nothing we tried seemed to work at finding any links beyond that, so I decided over the summer to start up a webpage, so I bought a domain, bought server space, and created a little information dumping ground for all things Meixner. It met with very limited success, I got to know some meixners in NJ, and had a breif apperance of some in Texas(I think). I tried emailing some people, posting on some forums, mass linking to applicable places, but it all turned up bunk. On my father's mother's side, I guess we can track back a decent amount to something of some standing in Scotland, but nothing 'famous' or earthshattering. My Mom's side is a complete mystery too me. Perhaps something to talk about tonight on the phone. WC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiere Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 I vaguely recall that I'm related to King Henry the Eighth somewhere down the line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magick Posted February 9, 2006 Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 Fiancee's currently looking up to see if she's related to Cathrine Howard. Tidbit I read in the paper the other day; Thanks to genetic profiling (Y-Chromosome), it's estimated that 17 million men in China (and surrounding areas) decended from Genghis Khan. http://http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5379014/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantangel Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 I've got a professional wrestler in my family from a while back. Nothing like the WWE or anything, but in the circuits/territories before it grouped up to just become one big organization. I'd have to ask my grandma again where all my family comes from, but I believe on my moms side of the family it can be traced back in America to about 1880's or so. They migrated from Germany to here. My mom for a while searched out her ancestry, the same way Chayesh already mentioned. Was farely easy for her to come up with some of the stuff, but ended up becoming farely difficult after a generation back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfeman Posted February 10, 2006 Report Share Posted February 10, 2006 I would like to know a lot more than I do. I know that the male line of my family (i.e. where the surname is from) is German. I also know that one of my dad's grandparents, I think on his mother's side, is a full blooded indian. That's all I know about that. The only thing I know about my mom's side is my grandma's maiden name, and that my grandpa was in the Army and then a fireman. It's really unfortunate that that is the extent of my knowledge, because they've both died. I'm pretty sure my grandma's sister is still alive though, but I haven't seen her in a long time. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizz Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 My family is kind of hard to trace. My brother can't track our last name past 3 generations. There is no record of it at Ellis Island, so I'm figuring relatives came over with the spanish. It's a spanish last name. I do know that I am a decendant of a mountainman and an Arapaho squaw who founded Ogden, UT. Family legend on the other side is one of my great, great, great... whatever grandmothers made Queen Mary's lace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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