Genealogy

[Hostile]

Anybody interested in it? If so, what sites do you use to research stuff?

I was using this site recently and I found some graves of my ancestors.

 

[kristie]

i'd like to know more about my family history beyond just what my family has told me. i tried that ancestry.com site but didn't like it.

 

[Hostile]

i'd like to know more about my family history beyond just what my family has told me. i tried that ancestry.com site but didn't like it.

I did too and neither did I. Worthless IMO.

 

[UnoDallas]

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html

check with your library do they have hertiage quest

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

I tell you Hos Ancestry is not that bad - I just found a where my 3 great grand fathers sister was buried - an her daughters

Ancestry takes a while to get to learn it - I have used it sparingly - gotten pretty good on it - see my home town library has it -

and since my mother had already done the older family - I am just filling in some of the missing pieces


http://www.usgenweb.org/

http://censuslinks.com/index.php

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Logon/Logon_Form.asp

and try google books there are a lot of county histories on there

go to google hit the more button - first button should be books

how far back are you Hos ?

 

[Hostile]

It depends on which leg of my genealogy we're talking about as to how far back. I am piggy backing a lot of people who did work before I started researching. My wife's parents are really into it and they go back to the early 1600's for both sides of her family.

My Mom was into it a few years back and did a decent bit of her side. It goes back to the mid 1700's I think.

I have two Fathers, a biological father and an adopted Father. My adopted Grandmother's cousin has done a ton of stuff. He also goes back to the early 1600's.

I have been working on stuff for my biological father. I knew nothing about him other than his name until just about 2 years ago. Then almost by accident I found my biological half sister, ironically on a genealogy website. She's been both thrilled to find out about me, and reticent to give me any genealogy help, even though she has already done extensive work. That's the price I pay for being a skeleton in a closet.

Saturday for that side of the family I made it into the late 1700's with one of my searches. I have not begun to do a lot on sibling searches yet. Just direct lineage.

On Saturday I found something that really touched me. One of my GGGG Grandmothers was a child of a slave mother and a slave owner father. I found her Father's will where he left land to each of his six children, including her and her husband who was White. It really moved me to see that.

Ancestry didn't help me find even one thing so far, and I can't see paying nearly 13 bucks a month for such a disappointing result. Are you saying that if an organization (like your library) has it, it is free to use it?

There is an LDS Family History Center here in Tucson. Actually 2. I know that there files into Genealogy are really in depth. I haven't been there yet, but I am thinking very seriously about going and seeing how much they can help me. Maybe they have it and know how to use it. I certainly will not turn down help from experts.

Speaking of the census information, thanks for that link. It is better than the ones I have been trying to use. All of them have been linked to either Ancestry or Archive and both are pay for information sites. I never knew until recently that the census data is sealed for 72 years and that the 1940 census data will not come out until 2012. I can understand why now that I think about it.

I haven't had any luck with the census data so far. I know my biological paternal grandmother was born in Covington County Alabama in 1913 and moved to Florida in 1926. She should appear on the 1920 census for Alabama and the 1930 census for Florida. So far, I cannot even find anyone with her surname in either. Nor in surrounding counties.

I too have used family search and find it to be really good, especially if you come across information someone else has been working on. It fills in the blanks faster than you can say hallelujah. That's what has happened with my in-laws. That is what they use. So did my grandma's cousin. I don't know what source my Mom used. I will have to ask.

I actually should have included the family search link in my original post, but I was just fishing a little.

Have you ever used the find a grave site I linked? The cool thing about it for me, is that in the same cemeteries where I found ancestors there are some surnames that match. Might be good clues to fill in blanks as I get closer.

 

[Chief]

I enjoy genealogy. I was really into it for a few years (1997-99), but haven't done much since then.

I've had my best results stumbling on to distant relatives online who have already come up with a bunch of stuff. My best find is getting a copy of my great-great grandfather's death certificate. I had hit a snag, but his father's name (my GGG grandfather) was on the certificate, so I was able to pick up the search again, and it led to a bunch more.

There's a lot more material available now online. I need to get back into it.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I have wanted to do my family but my father doesn't know his grand parents names.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I've never got into it for two reasons:

1. I simply don't have the time to get into it and figure all that stuff out.

2. Imagine the horror of actually finding out that you were somehow even distantly related to Bob.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I've never got into it for two reasons:

1. I simply don't have the time to get into it and figure all that stuff out.

2. Imagine the horror of actually finding out that you were somehow even distantly related to Bob.

hno: :shoot6:

 

[Nomad]

I did too and neither did I. Worthless IMO.

I was disappointed with ancestry.com when I first tried it years ago because it was hard to find anything and I gave up.

But I recently went back and found that someone else had done a lot of the work for me and traced everything back really far. I was able to help them fill in the gaps and used what they had already done to find other people's trees that went even further.

I think since a lot of this genealogical research on the internet is getting more popular you might eventually find similar. It helped that Texas kept really good birth records.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I was disappointed with ancestry.com when I first tried it years ago because it was hard to find anything and I gave up.

But I recently went back and found that someone else had done a lot of the work for me and traced everything back really far. I was able to help them fill in the gaps and used what they had already done to find other people's trees that went even further.

I think since a lot of this genealogical research on the internet is getting more popular you might eventually find similar. It helped that Texas kept really good birth records.

That's part of the problem I'd have. I seriously doubt that rural MS kept good birth records around the turn of the century.

And I'm too cheap to pay for the websites.

 

[UnoDallas]

I've never got into it for two reasons:

1. I simply don't have the time to get into it and figure all that stuff out.

2. Imagine the horror of actually finding out that you were somehow even distantly related to Bob.

just depends on when your family got here - you an Bob may be first cousins

cause I mean if your people came here in the 1600's we are all related -

or we have indain blood in us - my family came 1642 - hell hard telling what they were up to ??????????

Daniel Boone is my 7th cousin or how ever that works

 

[UnoDallas]

That's part of the problem I'd have. I seriously doubt that rural MS kept good birth records around the turn of the century.

And I'm too cheap to pay for the websites.

oh yea me too

I won' t pay for any sites - you should look at your library or see if you got genealogy society were you live

or see if your library has ancestry
or hertiage quest - has good census

they will help give you ideas on how get info

 

[UnoDallas]

have two Fathers, a biological father and an adopted Father. My adopted Grandmother's cousin has done a ton of stuff. He also goes back to the early 1600's.

I have been working on stuff for my biological father. I knew nothing about him other than his name until just about 2 years ago. Then almost by accident I found my biological half sister, ironically on a genealogy website. She's been both thrilled to find out about me, and reticent to give me any genealogy help, even though she has already done extensive work. That's the price I pay for being a skeleton in a closet

well good luck with all this - we all got skeletons in our closets

Social Security Index – you can look there

And here’s a site just put some ones name in there an see what comes up

http://www.pipl.com

 

[UnoDallas]

Social Security Index – you can look there

And here’s a site just put some ones name in there an see what comes up

http://www.pipl.com

I put in older people I mean ones born in the 1830’s and some things have come up

Yea I have used find a grave site – found a picture of Jesse Wixom bn ca 1815

I have used the find a grave stone in Iowa http://iowagravestones.org/
That a part of http://www.usgenweb.org/


Plus you have to remember about the spelling – in ILL they have a State archives an there was this Rachel Meeker marrying aa A.B. Meeker so I wrote to them- and found out that was my Rachel married to A.B. Cappher – now I seen the name as Kopter Coppher Copher Copper – just depends on how heavy their accent was and the spelling ability of the census taker

one night I was sitting here and Googled Copher –it gave a county history which gave her birth date – his birth date and three other children I knew nothing about
She is buried about 60 miles from here

I am stuck with my 4 G grand father’s wife she supposedly is a Wixom –– I have on Land Deed where those to are selling land in ILL in 1833 to a Nathan Wixom – an in 1850 Squire an his Son Joshua was living with a Wixom

why all the dealing with the Wixom family if the are not related

I know we were a bunch of hillbilly - in ILL where they lived it was all hills in Iowa where the lived it was all hills - I kept on tellin my mom that an she just chuckles


is she in the Wixom Book no – can’t find her any where – is she a relative to Rueben Wixom his wife – a that girl worked for them an took their last name – a half breed – or just some girl that was picked up on the way west – because in the 1810 census they were living in Franklin Co Ohio Columbus – by 1825 they were in ILL – my Meeker s and Wixom s met up in Franklin Co Ohio – I am sure of that – I just want a marriage certificate or some one that can tell me who she was

Squire Meeker - Born - March 21, 1806
Phebe Meeker – Born - March 28. 1812

Squire Meeker Married to Phebe Wixom – Feb 25, 1827

Children:

• Melville – Born - Nov 1, 1827 – this my 3 ggf
• George – Born – Feb 12, 1830 – Died Feb 6, 1831 -
• Rueben – Born – July 7 or 9, 1832 – Died July 14, 1858 – died in the gold fields CA
• Mary Jane – Born – August 9, 1834 – Died Nov. 16 1834
• Rachel M – Born – Nov 24, 1835 – Died Oct. 31, 1869 – died Alden IA
• Joshua – Born – Dec. 13, 1837 – died in Clarion IA
• Martin – Born Nov 3. 1849

Phebe Meeker Died Dec 3, 1849


if I an when I find here I am thru

we will have all four sides to the other side of the pond

 

[kristie]

I've never got into it for two reasons:

1. I simply don't have the time to get into it and figure all that stuff out.

2. Imagine the horror of actually finding out that you were somehow even distantly related to Bob.

:laugh2:

 

[UnoDallas]

just think if one your ancestor's were on the Orphan Train

Between 1854 and 1929 an estimated 200,000
orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children
were placed out during, what is known today as,
the Orphan Train Movement. The name is derived
fromthe children's situations, though they were
not all orphans, and the mode of transportation
used to move them across forty-seven states and
Canada.

When the orphan train movement began, it was
estimated that 30,000 abandoned children were
living on the streets of New York City.

 

[UnoDallas]

I know my biological paternal grandmother was born in Covington County Alabama in 1913 and moved to Florida in 1926. She should appear on the 1920 census for Alabama and the 1930 census for Florida. So far, I cannot even find anyone with her surname in either. Nor in surrounding counties

well the only other thing to do is look for cousins or a name that is close

or write to Covington County genealogy society of that county see if any one can help you - look up that county on the web see if they have Query section and put in a query

http://searches.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ there a place on there where you can get to the county an queries

an http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html has boards of people

 

[Hostile]

UnoDallas is great at this.

Thanks man. A lot of good tips I can try.

 

[theebs]

UnoDallas is great at this.

Thanks man. A lot of good tips I can try.

I did this on ancestry.com with their 14 day trial period.

I traced all my grandparents, and on my dads side I traced my grandfathers family all the way back to 1529 in Paris!