Can you help me find my ancestors?
I have come to a dead end on my family history investigation. I can not find the parents of my ancestors who were born in Toronto, Canada around 1790-1800. Does anybody know where I can look to find the information I cant seem to find? I have been looking on ancestry.com. Their names are Lawrence Smith and Hannah (Saxbury) Smith. Their children are Nelson, Frank,William, and Anna. I can not find Lawrence's or Hannah's parents. I have found out though that Lawrence put he was born in New York but there is also evidence leading to be said he was born near Toronto. Any info will be appreciated I really want to know where my family immigrated from.
Can someone please help me find my ancestor?
"A distant relative of mine posted our family tree online"...... so online trees, which is NOT a awy to research your ancestry " I don't' think' his name".......if you research properly then there is no room for 'thinking' as you have the FACTS and they are in records, so you 'know' or you 'don't' "Now another distant relative's site said he was born in Maine"...... another online tree? Stop going around in circles looking at online trees which you have no idea are correct or not, they clearly are not cited and you have clearly not checked back or researched via real records and that is the ONLY way you will find out the true information........ researching your tree is not about copy and paste or name hunting on websites, it is about factually proving each generation and that is ONLY done with records research....so either continue doing what you are doing ad never really know who your ancestors were or start again and that is with YOU and your own records which are at home and prove from you and each generation back and you can do this very easily, free and it will teach you how to research which will help you later on in knowing how to prove ancestors http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin...
Please help me find my ancestors...?
On Ancestry.com, I found Mattie Byrom (b. abt 1904) in the 1930 Census of Militia District 535, Vienna City, Dooly County, Georgia. She is listed as head of the household with children Louis M (age 8), J. Lucius (age 6), Gene W. (age 4 years 8 months), and Lucius (age 1 year 11 months). Reference roll 353, page 10A, Enumeration District 2, Image 39.0; dwelling #207; household #233. In the Social Security Death Index I found Mattie Byrom, SSN# 257-20-1623; last residence 33430 Belle Glade, Palm Beach, Florida, b. 8 Mar 1901; d. Mar 1982; SSN issued before 1951 in Georgia In the 1900 U.S. Census for 585th District, Byromville, Dooly County, Georgia, I found Lucius M. Byrom, age 5 months (b. Feb? 1899); he is in the household of Sandy and Lula Byrom (b. May 1864 and Jan 1865, respectively); other children are George (b. Feb 1887), Sandy M. (b. Mar 1890), Gracy (b. Apr 1892), Carrie L (b. Jan 1898). Roll T623, Page 15B, Enumeration District 89, dwelling #293, family #294. In the 1910 Census I found: Lucius Byrom (age 25, b. abt 1885) in District 37, Lilly, Dooly County, Georgia. Married for 11 years; wife Clifford age 24; children John W (age 10), Lou (age 9), Otis (age 7), Lilly (age 5), Thelma (age 4), Eugene (age 3), and Annie (age 1); all born in Georgia; RollT624_177, Page 5A, Enumeration District 37, Image 568, Dwelling #25, Household #25. I also found a Lucius Byrom in the Social Security Death Index b. 5 Sep 1876, d. 1 Feb 1964; last residence Lilly, Dooly Co, Georgia; SSN#256-56-5011 issued 1954 in Georgia. This would be a different person than the Lucius in the census above, at least based on dates of birth/ages. Unfortunately, this won't give you much on the dates of death, but it might at least give you a place to look, as clearly many members of the family lived in Dooly Co, Georgia. Good luck with your searching.
How do we find out about our ancestors? Has anyone find out about their roots?
There are 2 answers to this. One is old fashioned genealogy, in which the only way to do it is to get your birth certificate, your parent’s marriage license, their birth certificates, death and birth certificates from grandparents and great grandparents, citizenship papers, ship lists, etc. Step by step from you back 100 years or more. And then look at the Federal census and push it back more, and if you are lucky, look at church records and local histories to push it back even farther. “Wishful thinking” is a cancer of genealogy, we all want to be related to a king or a genius or a Mayflower passenger. You have to prove it, you have to go step by step.If you want to jump back 1000+ years, do some DNA testing. Your maternal and paternal haplogroups might tell you where your ancestors were in the last Ice Age. That can be pretty exciting stuff. 23andMe tells you your haplogroups. Last I heard Ancestry and some other services do not.I had a nice convergence of these — I know that my paternal line goes back to Canton Aargau in Switzerland, and I got several generations worth of information from the church records in the town where my great grandfather was born. Then I got my Y chromosome partly sequenced at family tree DNA and learned that I had a Deiss cousin in Switzerland with a nearly identical Y chromosome. And I figured out that every Swiss man named Deis/Deiss is probably my Y chromosome cousin (not true of Germans with the same surname). And we go back to Rhaetia, so our ancestors were cousins of the Etruscans and my ancestors have been in eastern Switzerland for thousands of years. In fact Ötzi the Ice Man who was found in the Tyrol has a similar Y haplogroup to mine — the Tyrol is basically within walking distance of Canton Aargau.
I am intrested in finding someone to help me with Greek Genealogy.?
I'd start with Aris Poulimenakos, who's a very well-respected Greek genealogist. If he can't do it personally, I'm sure he can refer you to someone familiar with the region you'll be researching (God help you if it's Thesalonika). The last phone number I had for him from the U.S. was: 011-30-210-9351449 This is the last address I had for him, and the last email address... oirizes@otenet.gr Mr. Aris Poulimenakos Fanariou 7-9 171 24 Nea Smyrni Athens, Greece
Why can't I find my ancestors in the 1940 census?
Yes you are very lucky in America that you have up to the 1940 census and 'everyone' filled in the census, but some could have slipped throught the net, more likely isolated houses 'forgotten about' or people who were never at home, in an era before mail-order surveys and online questionnaires, census workers went door-to-door to collect information....some were bound to be missed.......... The 1940 Census was takenas the Great Depression was winding down and beforeAmerica's entred into World War II, reflecting the economic tumult of the era and the New Deal recovery program of the 1930s. Maybe you are putting in too much information, maybe if you use just their surname and place of birth........ I had a couple of branch line 'ancestors' who immigrated, couldn't find them, then reduced the information and found them fairly easy, using their middle names and one had changed his given name completely............
Can someone help me find details on Stephen F Austin's Descendants?
The only info I have been able to fine so far is that he had a son, Hugh Austin, with a Shawnee Indian woman (ancestry.com). Does anyone have more details. I'm trying to find more descendants of his because I'm told he is my ancestor...
How can I let my ancestors help me?
There are a couple of things which need to be clarified. Are you talking about living people or not? How do you know that this person(s) want to help you? How do you know that they are your ancestors (do you have a family tree and genetic proof)? How do you know that their help will be beneficial to you?If you are talking about living people, then you seek answers to all the questions above and you figure out whether you need and can accept their help.If you are talking about deceased persons, then you walk away from whoever is saying that they can "help" you and you never speak with that person again. Even if you do believe in spirits and such, the spirit does not need your permission to help you. If there is a human intermediary to this whole transaction, then you are just being fooled and will most likely be out of money very soon.If you have exhausted all the help you can get from the living persons, and you are up to looking towards the help from those who are no longer among us, you need to ask yourself what is it that you're seeking and whether whatever you're seeking is, in fact, legal and necessary for your existence.If you are pressed to give an answer to whoever came up with this "help" scheme, say that you need a proof in writing that you will be helped, that the help won't harm you or your loved ones (now or in the future). And if you receive a paper with these details and a signature, you will know that it's a fraud.
How can I easily find my ancestors' roots in India online?
Photos are nice but not necessary. There are other types of records that one can seek out and study. In short, getting the data that you want will require work, time, and patience. Many pay someone to do the grunge work since it can be tedious. Also, one might have to dig into records at different sites. One boon, today, is that a whole lot of local records are being digitized which allows indexing and search. Aside: There are people who cannot get information about an ancestor even though they have tried for years. In one case, it is the father of a man's mother who in unknown. He knows about her mother. The experience is usually associated with hitting a brick wall. Basically, when looking at ancestors, you try to build a binary tree starting with yourself, then your parents. At each generation, there are more parents added for each node. So, at the grandparent level, there are four people; at the great-grandparent's level, there are eight. And, so forth. The number of people doubles each generation as you go back. Now, it is nice to know when each person was born and died. Too, the marriage information for the parents is sought. Any additional information is nice. Having this data backed up by documents is a plus. Most people have a tree with large holes in it. That is, after some number of generations back, there is nothing. Trying to join a heritage group can motivate filling in a tree. In this case, there are types of ancestors who qualify one for a group. Then, one must show a link from oneself to one of these persons. And, at each generation, it is sufficient to know only the ancestor who is carrying the line backward. So, if the father is the carrier, there is little information needed for the mother.---[edit] See Comments. Is there anyone for whom all 1,024 of his/her 10th generation ancestors are traceable, all of them separate individuals?Also. For most of us, how far back in time do we have to go before we no longer have unique ancestors in every generation?