Is there any way i can find out my family history?
Check for a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) in your area. They should have a Family History Center where volunteers will help you get started. The FHC also has subscriptions which you can use for free on their computers that will greatly help in your search. If you are living in the area where your ancestors have lived for years, you might check your public library for history and biographies of people. Also your public library might have subscriptions to some of the genealogy sites. They also should have people to help you get started. My first choice would be the FHC. They usually have microfilms and microfisch of a lot of records available for you to search. Good Luck. It is lots of fun.
Yes. Start with your parents. With their full names, birth (and death?) dates, and birth location, you can get copies of their birth certificates, which should list their parents’ names. Then you do the same with your grandparents. Then their parents, and their parents, and … so on and so on… You may be able to find information via Google (quotes around your parents’ full names… If nothing found or what’s found is NOT yours, then remove middle name… Then try nicknames… Same with everyone else. Sometimes it takes finding a sibling to find a misspelled name. (My grandfather VERNE, was listed in the 1920 Census – I think – As VERN and female. My grand-aunt, WILMA, was listed in the 1920 census as WILLIAM and male). There are genealogy programs and websites out there (Ancestry is a GREAT website, but to get the most out of it, it will take a subscription.) www.usgenweb.org is a FREE site, and has different people handling each state and each county within that state. Most are loc
Start with yourself, then your parents, then your grandparents…generation by generation you can build your family genealogy.Go to the genealogy department of your local library for assistance and guidance. Research original documents as much as possible…don’t just blindly accept what someone else may have posted online or in a library. Use such information as a guide in verifying accuracy.
