How do I find my family history if I'm Egyptian?
You always start with YOU and the records you already have at home, this gives you a good foundation to your tree and lots of information which you very possibly don't know...ie do you know when and where you were baptised..and if you do how? someone told you, as that is family stories and not proved and records do prove that and often give more information too http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin... also download free FH software to put all the information you find in, then speeak to your parents about who in the family they still have addresses /contact details of in Egypt...as them to also look at all their records,maybe scan them in and send you a copy or of course photocopy and post to you........ this gives you lots of free and reliable information back several generrations as well as teaching you how to research...genealogy research is not online copying from databases, simply as most of the records are not online fr any country in the world...... the links page might help with links to National Archives and I also suggest you register ( free) on forums where others are researhing in Egypt such as http://genforum.genealogy.com/egypt/ if you search for Egypt genealogy you will find lots of links which may help you in the future once youhave all your foundation work done http://www.genealogytoday.com/surname/fi... BUT the important thing is that ONE mistake and you are no longer researching your family so anything online needs to be a image of the real record to trust it, everything else is just a clue for where to look for that record......also worth knowing is the registration laws in Egypt so it help you to know when there are records available, what they are and from what dates http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/egypt.htm as Egypt is Islamic and that means religious records not civil in many cases espeically as you go back further........
How can I trace my family history in India?
I know very little on research family history in India, but that didn’t stop me from previously answering a similar question.How do I commence a genealogical search for my ancestors in South India? Where do I look?
How would I start tracing my family history?
If you don't have much family knowledge, I would begin by looking at one of the big sites like Ancestry.com. They offer several things that would require a lot of effort otherwise. The two biggest things areThey offer the possibility of connecting with distant relatives you didn't know that you had. They may have family trees already built for some sides for your family. You may even know them, but didn't know that they were interested in genealogy.The bigger sites have many digitized documents from all over the world and they're growing everyday. These include census, birth, marriage, and death records as well as documents from enlistments in wars. You can get dates, places and other relatives from these form. Speaking from personal experience, I found out that my paternal grandfather had actually immigrated from modern day Ukraine, even though we thought he was born in the US and his family had emigrated from Germany. It turns out that they had left Germany around 1790 going via Hungary to then Imperial Russia and then in 1909, emigrated to the US. That is one small example of what you can do with only electronic research. I wouldn't say it is easy because people have wrong information in their trees, multiple people have the same name, people change the spellings of their names, etc. But it is very doable these days to learn things about your family that you had knowledge of.You can gain additional information by using genetic testing services like 23andMe, which will give you an ethnic breakdown of yourself benchmarked to ethnicities of 500 years ago. This let me connect to a previously unknown third cousin, who let me get back an extra generation in time and subsequently, let me trace back an additional 3 generations.
If you have alcoholism in your family history...?
i have alcoholism in my family (almost everyone) and i chose to drink, and didnt realise i was an alcoholic until the disease progressed, and yes it does progress. i dont know if its been proven to be genetic, but i believe it is. my father is recovering alcoholic, and both my brother and i are alcoholics (recovering, by the grace of God) im not sure if all children of alcoholics become alcoholics, just in my family we both did. i guess you really dont know if you are, until you take your first drink, and even then, it takes a while to progress. but the alcohol is just a symptom of the disease, and i was always aware that i could have it while i was drinking(in the beginning) and as the years went by, i knew, but didnt want to quit. everyone must learn from experience, and the more informed you are the better able you are to see the warning signs. great question, thanks for listening, and please come visit me at www.threadsofhopeinrecovery.com, its a new website dedicated to those of us in recovery from all things, depression, addiction, etc, its a chat/blog site, and i could use your input on either side, thanks again
How complicated is your family history?
The complication arises in the German parish, consisting of four small villages, where both my father’s and mother’s family originate. There are so many people with the same first and last name that finding the correct ancestor is difficult, or even impossible. Some examples:Unbeknownst to each other, three of us cousins wrote to this parish for the birth/baptism record of our ancestor Christian Behm. Each was given a different record! Turns out that there were four Christian Behms born in a three-year period. It took extensive research to come up with a reasonable answer of which one was our ancestorIn 1803, a Christine was born, daughter of Christian Lemke. Nine days later, another Christine, daughter of Christian Lemke was born. Fortunately, the mother’s names were different.A Hinrich Wittkopp, married a Maria Behm, and I was pleased that this woman came from a well known family. However, additional research uncovered that this Maria died early, Hinrich married again, and then married a third time to another Maria Behm! This new Maria was my ancestor, and she turns out to be a dead end.Finding the correct answer required the consideration of all the possibilities and took many hours of research and analysis. Too often, family researchers take the first name that appears to fit, often selecting the wrong individual as their ancestor.
What are my chances (boy vs. girl - family history) ?
I have a gender conceiving question...again..I know. Okay, so if my husband has conceived 2 boys so far what are our chances of conceiving a girl? Okay, just some more history to get a more accurate answer (hopefully).... as I mentioned my husband has 2 boys. One from a previous relationship and the other is ours together. The weird thing is that girls run on his side of the family. He has 3 sisters (he's the only boy) whereas on my side boys seem to rule (I'm the only girl out of 4) - so....anybody have a guess about our "odds?" (just for fun, of course). I tried to research a little but found nothing. No rude answers..you will be reported!
Hw important is it to know your family history?
Very important as I was shocked to find out that I had a great great..........grandfather who was a Union Soldier and died at the Battle of Gettysburg