searching for people

I've not had to go through the work of looking through our family history. The reason that I haven't done this is because of the fact that my father's oldest brother's retirement project has been doing the genology of our family and also writing a family history of his generation and also his nieces and nephews. The work that he has done on this for our family is really something that I'm proud to have a copy of.

No, I've never tried to since relatives are not from here. But I think my mom's family did since they were pretty 'well known'. I guess my great grandpa was a mayor or something.

I would like to do this one day. I have done small searches online and never come up with much. I don't even know how to go about searching that far back.

That is so intersting. I wish I could find ancient people from my family. I want to know how they lived back in their days.

hi pat, I once read in a magazine a long time ago that if all men would trace their ancestry all of us would find a drop of Royal blood in all of us, makes sense because almost all countries in the world had some form of Monarchy one time or the other in their history. I also read that all of us has a common gene that came from a female who lived somewhere in Africa millions of years ago they call eve( probably in reference to the biblical eve)so they said that it is possible that all humans are related, wonder how true. I know my ancestry because their names and things they did were handed down from generation to generation, I asked my mother ( now 78 yrs.) to tell me what her father and grand father told her and decided to put it in writing, from there make the research or maybe make a personal website if I still have time. Some explains why some of my ancestors were Aglipayans and not Roman Catholic when they denounced their religion and fought on the side of the revolution against Mother Spain. Yes I found so much more information. Thanks for your very interesting topic

I think it's very interesting to trace back your family back in the 17th century, but it needs a lot of patience and perseverance. Like me, I am of Chinese descent, but I live outside mainland China and of course, I can't speak a single Chinese at all. What should I do to trace my family tree? I am only able to trace back my family when my great grandfather took voyage and stranded in my country. I was just informed that my great grandfather left mainland China to earn a living in the beginning of 19th century. Just about it. No more information. Lucky you live in the US that allows everything to be recorded. Wish you luck you find your ancestors. Happy Valentine's Day.

i got a photo album from my mom from my grandfather's service during world war 1. he was in the dardenelles and on a specific ship (a British hospital ship) and the pictures are of him, his ship mates and the places he was in (Alexandria, Egypt and Constantanople (Istanbul) Turkey. It is so cool and i have been doing some research on it. i am in Canada however, so it is hard to get ahold of British records, but we pretty much have everything you have in the us. my library has a free service that you can go on ancestry.com through its computers.

Most of the research has been done by other people, but I have learned some fascinating stuff about the family.

Hi, savypat. I have an aunt that does geneology regularly. She mostly does it for different family members. I've read some of the histories that she tracks down. It is really interesting. I'm a history buff myself and I could spend hours reading her findings. It has all been simplified some since the advent of the computer but I know she still has to physically search court records, church history, family notes and such and library files for some of her work.

It is not something I have ever done although it would be interesting because I know nothing about my family tree. Recently my brother in law finished research his mother had been working on before she passed away two years ago. He finished it off and had the whole thing framed. It proudly sits on my father in law’s wall and makes fascinating reading. We were not aware how much work she had done researching this, it was a lot! I appreciate how much research you’re doing, good on you, best of luck with it...