I am looking for my husbands geneology?

Question

I am looking for my husbands geneology?

Answer 1

If you know what state and county he is from search for a local history/genealogy site and look for a GenWeb site for that county.

Answer 2

Genealogy is NOT "relatives" per se, especially living persons. Genealogy is his ANCESTRY. The reason this is critical...info about live persons is normally considered subject to privacy laws, and you actually have more opportunity to find records of persons who are deceased. You also indicate a common genealogy misconception...all persons of any name are NOT always related.

Quality genealogy is one person at a time..working from today, backwards, and MOST IMPORTANT..depends on the quality/reliability of your documentation. For example..if you worked back religiously, it is always possible that you may find gr gr grandpa Clanton, was in fact adopted..and he "really" is a child of a Smith. Since the goal of research is to validate relationships..NOT names.. then relying on details about Clantons (live or not) is unreliable.

With all respect for your aunt.. roots back to the "beginning of time" are immediately something I am skeptical of. There were no records available at that time, so you have to know to be cautious about those claims.

Dont' go off on tangents. Use documents to PROVE his parentage. Then his grandparents. Then grgrandparents.

If you want reliable and authentic family history, you have to have understanding of those basic standards.

Answer 3

Okay, set websites aside for awhile if you haven't done any research on your husband's line. First you want to get as much information from living family as possible. Find out who might have any old family bibles, birth,marriage and death certificates, land records, wills, old family photos. It might be some of those things nobody has. Also depending on the religious faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage records from their church can frequently be just as helpful if not more so than civil records. Interview the senior members of your husband's family. Tape them if they will let you. Chances are they will get into telling stories of days gone by you wouldn't write down but in those stories you frequently will hear things you didn't hear the first time around if you go back periodically while doing research and listen to the tapes again. There very likely will be some big clues.



Find out what your public library has.



Also go to a Family HIstory Center at a Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City they have the world's largest genealogical collection. While viewing their database if you see information you would like to view and make a copy of the original document they can order microfilm for you to view for a reasonable fee. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. A lot of their volunteers are not Mormon. Just use the following link to find the nearest Mormon FHC.



https://familysearch.org/locations



As far as websites the first thing I prefer to do is give a big word of warning. Look for websites that have records. Do not view family trees on ANY website as a record. The trees are submitted by the subscribers and yes, there are errors. Even when you see the absolute same information on the same people from many different subscribers that doesn't mean it is accurate as too many people copy without verifying. Actually if you just happen to find any of your family in an online tree and you see wrong information those that run be websites will tell you that is between you and the other subscriber. They don't get involved. It would cost a fortune for them to hire experts to verify all the information their subscribers submit. This is true of fee websites like Ancestry.Com and free websites.



The 2 I prefer for the amount of original source records online are Ancestry.Com and https://familysearch.org/ Now still you must distinguish between the records they have obtained and put online and their subscriber submitted family trees. No way are all records online. When I go into Ancestry.Com after I click on Search at the top then on the next page I click on Old Search which I feel is far more functional but not as pretty as their New Search. FamilySearch.org is updating their website constantly and it might be once they are through no other website will be able to touch it. Now I think the format of the Old Search at Ancestry.Com is far better than their New Search and better than the format of FamilySearch.org. Also many public libraries have a subscription to Ancestry.com you can use for free. FamilySearch.org is entirely free. If you intend to subscribe to Ancestry.Com it might be well for you to investigate it at a library and go over it and see all the goodies they have and get use to it.



Genealogy websites are not a good place to find living people as that can be an invasion of privacy and can lead to identity theft. Also tracing surnames is not a good way to do genealogy. Start with your husband and go back one generation at a time, documenting everything as you do. When surnames were taken or assigned in Europe during the last millennium it wasn't impossible for legitimate sons of the same man to wind up with a different surname and still each could have shared his with others with no known relationship. The purpose originally was not to identify a man as a member of a family but just to better identify him, frequently for taxation purposes. Too many men with the same given name in the same town or village and they had to have a way of sorting them out.

It was when a poll tax was introduced in England when most of the ordinary people obtained a surname.

Answer 4

No not any more than any one names James are related to Jessie or Frank.

I cannot figure out where you are researching or who you are actually looking for, I would suggest that you start by looking at the Tutorial on Familysearch.org. Click the word Courses at the bottom left of the front page. You need to start at the beginning and not by typing a surname into Google.

You will also need to learn how to annotate sources so your work will be consider valid.

I don't know how to respond to your comment about race.

Answer 5

Who were your husband's great grandparents? And their grandparents? Most Clantons in the 1870 census are in the South and have been here long before the Clanton gang.

Clanton is only one of the many surnames in your husband's tree, by the way. The first Clantons came to America in 1635.





Clanton Name Meaning

English: probably a variant spelling of the habitational name Clandon, from places in Surrey and Dorset named Clandon, from Old English cl?ne ‘clean’ (i.e. ‘clear of weeds’) + dun ‘hill’. adm.



Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

Answer 6

You should look at the resolved questions. Either browse them or use the advanced search at least three times, for the words



Free family tree

free family history

free ancestry



People ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree, for free?" 3 - 14 times a day here. All of us top 10 have stock answers. After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer, the rest don't bother. All the stock answers are well worth reading. All of us are warm, wise, witty, well-read and, above all, devilishly handsome. We have quite a bit of overlap on our favorite links, but we emphasize different aspects of the hunt in our advice.



Here is my stock answer:



There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among them (without http://)



www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized.

www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records.

wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entries

usgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USA

vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index, 9,366,786 records

www.findagrave.com - 83 million records

genforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state, and thousands of surnames.

boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and surnames too.

archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over 30 million messages



I have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade through some advice and warnings first.



If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one of their international sub-sites, we can't tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it.



If you are in the USA,

AND most of your ancestors were in the USA,

AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access,

AND you are white

Then you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with 100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are black, sadly. Many people stop reading here and pick another hobby.



No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late.



You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking up obituaries and so forth.



Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify.



So much for the warnings. Here is the main link.



http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html



That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the "new look".



You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The query forms on the sites are tricky.





If you've read this far,

And you are still interested

And your ancestors were in the USA by 1930

And you know the names of at least two people (husband and wife, parent and child) who were living in the same house in 1930

I'll look for them in the 1930 census to give you a start.

Write to me via my profile.

Answer 7

1) Go to familysearch.org Scroll down all the way and see what's available.

2) Go to the Reference Dept. at your library and see if they've got Ancestry.com

3) If you know what church his relatives were members of, go there and ask to see the church records of baptisms, marriages and deaths.

4) Maybe your state or local historical society can help.

5) Look for a Mormon Church. Find out where their nearest Family History center is. Go there!



Good luck

Answer 8

You need to find a good geneology site and start entering whatever information you do know, such as the birth date of his parents and maybe grandparents names and birthdates. This may help you find links to the correct people he is related to. Good luck.

Answer 9

MAybe it is because you have never researched before, it is confusing for you............. I am assuming Clanton is a surname and you do not research via surnames in isolation ............ surnames are only one identifier and regardless who any of these people are and what they did you will not be the only Clanton's in the world and they are not alll related.........and each and every one of them left behind a trail of records........it is those records you research and sorry but they are highly unlikely to be on google................



You start at home with the records you already have such as your marriage cert that PROVES of his existance and his parents, his birth cert, a primary document also proves them all and gives you dates, places etc and you continue looking for RECORDS and PROVING ancestry and you can get back up to 5 generations like this at home for free.......but more importantly it teaches you how to research and gives you the real people in the tree....not some copy and paste no proof 'back to beginning of time' as so many have with no proof whatsoever...... as genealogists you soon realise that there is a limit to how far you can research and that is when records began suitable for research http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm