Randa Hessell: Only one place with8 billion names:www.familysearch.orgFree,free your familyFind them in the dust of Europe and Americas...Show more
Whitley Leopold: My great granmother was Cherokee, and let me first tell you that the Cherokee Nation does not have princesses. She may have been the daughter of a chief or shaman. I have my family traced back to the 1700's but its hard because they only wrote down mens name back then. Check the Dawes Rolls. Please feel free to email me about this subject. I have files an inch thick. Its funny how I can trace my dad's side back almost 300 years, but can't get back to 1800 on my mother's side. And as far as the German thing goes, try Bavarian in your searches and also Italian. I have more to share on this subject but do not care to post it publicly because it does mean stating full names of people, etc., for various privacy issues....Show more
Mandy Mustaro: http://www.geni.com/My family uses this site. We l! ove it! You can upload pictures or images and send invitations for people to join. Every entry has its own profile page with links to other members of their immediate family. You can do searches by name and date and all kinds of things. It's fun and easy to use....Show more
Marvella Benward: Heres one my dad goes to all the time http://ancestry.com. Hope this helps!
Corrina Faro: The best thing to do is to trace your family tree. You should start with your parents and go back each generation.Do not rely on finding your family on the web. You might find some of your family lines. However, you must be very careful about taking as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The trees are submitted by folks like you and me. Most of the information is not documented. There are errors in trees on internet websites. You will often times see different information on the same person. Then all too frequently you see the same informatio! n repeatedly on the same person without documentation. What th! is unfortunately means is a people are copying without verifying.Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation, not as fact.I don't know if you have done so, but the best thing to do is to get as much information from your family as possible. Talk to your senior members. It might turn out that they are a little confused on some information but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might turn out to be very important. Tape them if they will let you. Go to your public library and find out what they have. Call your nearest Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church and find out if they have a Family History Center. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City they have the world's largest genealogical collection. The Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.They are very nice and they won't bring up their religion. I used them over 15 years ago and I have never had them to! send one of their missionaries by to ring my doorbell.Don't get too involved in the origin of any surname. Trace your ancestors. The same surname can come from more than one nationality. Also, people with the same surname are not necessarily related. Death Certificates and applications for social security numbers give the names and place of birth of both parents, including mother's maiden names.I feel the application for a social security number is more trustworthy. The peson applying for social security most likely will know where their parents were born. The death certificate relies on a widow or widower remembering where his/her inlaws were born. Social Security was voted in effect by Congress in 1937 and became effective January 1938. Rootsweb and Ancestry.Com has the Social Security Death Index and if you find a person, you can probe a link to the right and it will pull up a letter for you to print off, put your address on it, sign it and attached your check ! and mail. People that are on the SSDI are people who were drawing Soci! al Security at time of death and on their own social security number. My mother isn't on it even though she had a Social Security number and put into Social Security for awhile, because she was drawing off of my father's social security.Now recently Ancestry.Com and Rootsweb have picked up some people who never put into social security or drew social security. These were elderly people who had to get Medicaid. In order to get Medicaid, they had to have a social security number. However, the dates of death on the two I saw were wrong.You do not need the social security number to find them on the index if you know how they listed their name with social security.Obituaries, courthouse records(deeds, wills, marriage records, cemeteries are all valuable resources. Do not expect to put a name in on any website and bingo up comes your family tree. The websites can be valuable. Ancestry.Com, Rootsweb and Genealogy.Com have message boards. You can put a message (inquiry) under! a surname or a location. I have had success putting inquiries in under location. When you put a message on Ancestry.Com it also shows up on Rootsweb and vice versa as well as the Rootsweb mailing list. There were lots of Germans in colonial America but they were usually called Dutch. That is what Deutsch sounded like to English speaking people. North Carolina had quite a few Germans and Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County.I had ancestors who came from Alsace about 1700 that settlled in North Carolina.Germany did not exist as a nation then so if you find any records showing where they came from it will be one of the German states like Prussia, Hanover, Bavaria, etc.Good Luck!...Show more
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