i wanting to do my family tree can anyone give me any clues to getting started?
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I'm a genealogist. Start with your parents and began tracing backwards. Lots of internet sites to help you and if you need a little advice, email me. Tina
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Yahoo Answers has a Genealogy category under "Arts & Humanities". Half of the questions there are inane. Most of the rest are either "What is the meaning of the {xyz} surname?" or "How do I find my family tree?".\n\nYou can't find your family tree without spending a month or two at it, unless you get REAL lucky. (For instance, an aunt has spent 30 years at it and has you in her tree.)\n\nYahoo! itself doesn't have any genealogy data.\n\nThe resolved Q in the Genealogy category have some links that will get you started, if you are still interested.
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ask them questions \nlike ask the mom about their past family names and where they are from,\ntell the mom you think this and maybe she will help you out in this process.\nmake sure you have information about your families past too. like grandparents and great grandparents and stuff like that..\nGood Luck
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You can draw your family tree and name all of your closest family, including siblings, parents and grandparents.  If someone has died, mark the age and cause of death.  Then just go through everyone on the tree and ask them what diseases they are suffering from.  Hope that helps!
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I don't know about that,but here in the US they have a great geneology site: familysearch.org  They also have places to research your  family history.
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Family Tree and pictures.
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I need to know the exact names of your parents and your grandparents and your great grandparents to search for them.\n\nI also need to know the names of all the brothers and sisters of your parents and grandparents and great grandparents.
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I maintain the site for my church, and I subscribe to the mailing list for web keepers in my denomination. We discuss this all the time.\n\nI also do genealogy as a hobby. I often tell people the best web page I ever saw had a 25% grey background and nothing but line after line of black courier text. It was  a transcription of the 1850 census for Monroe County VA (Now WV) with about 6 dozen of my dead ancestors on it.\n\nSo - content. It has what I'm looking for. It should be laid out in a logical order for first-time visitors. People who visit every week will learn how to navigate it quickly enough. Make t easy for the first-timers.\n\nAppearance - clean, without useless decorations. A light background, dark text, text links blue and underlined, nothing else blue or underlined. Some of my fellow church web keepers disagree with me on this. My argument was that about 1 time in 20 I use my ATM card at a retail store, I push the wrong button in the wrong sequence and have to start over, because each ATM scanning port seems to have a slightly different standard. I don't want to have to play "Guess which button"; I want to pay for my loaf of bread and get home. The same on a web page; I don't want to have to guess where the text links are. I want them to be blue and underlined, just like they are on the other 90% of the sites I visit.\n\nSome genealogy sites have antique floral wallpaper and "Take Me back to West Virginia" musical background. I consider both useless decorations.\n\nBread crumbs or a navigation bar on each page help. "Bread Crumbs" show you where you are. Each word or phrase is a link. So, on a query board for Monroe County, at the top you'd see:\n\nNorth America -> USA -> West Virginia -> Monroe County\n\nClicking on the "USA" link would take you to a page of states, and so forth. (the Ancestry.com query boards do this really well.)\n\n80% - 90% of visitors to the four sites I maintain come to them through an interior page via a search engine. At least half of them have come by mistake. So, it should be clear at the top what the page has and what it is about. \n\nMy church site, for instance, is in Modesto, California. It has a map showing how to find us. We get lots of visits from people looking for a map of Modesto.\n\nThere should be a way to get to the home page on every page, at the very least. If your site had tiers, it should be easy to get "up" one tier. (For instance, if your site had mountain bikes for sale, pictures of your trip to the Alps and recipies your grandmother handed down to you, and I found the apple pie recipie, I should be able to get "up" to the recipie index with one click.)\n\nInformation - people who are buying things want prices. People looking for a church want to know where and when they meet, and, for men in California at least, if they should wear a tie. Exactly what first-time visitors want depends on the site. Whatever it is, they should be able to find it easily.\n\nOne of my pet peeves is fixed text size. Some web designers think everyone in the world has 20/20 vision and a 19-inch monitor. We don't A quality web page will allow people to enlarge or reduce the text size, and its design will not suffer. It should work at any resolution, too.\n\nI also hate it when people put a full-size picture on a site and set the dimensions to 100x200 or so; I have to wait while my browser downloads 4 MB, then wait again while it shrinks the picture.\n\nIf you have more than 100 pages, you should consider a mini-search engine. If you get one, put a link labeled "Search this site" on every page.
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try:\n\nhttp://www.ancestry.com/
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These may help get you started. The study of family history is called "Genealogy", and Yahoo! Has a category for it over in Arts & Humanities.\n\nhttp://www.cyndislist.com/\n(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed.)\n\nhttp://www.familysearch.com\n(Mormon's mega-site)\n\nhttp://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi\n(450,000,000+ entries, of varying quality)\n\nhttp://www.usgenweb.net/\n(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.)\n\nhttp://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi\n(Social Security Death index - click on "Advanced".)\n\nhttp://find.person.superpages.com/\n(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins)\n\nhttp://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=\nSurname meanings and origins\n\nThree warnings: \n\nThere isn't a magic site that will take your name in and give you a 12-generation pedigree. Genealogy takes time.\n\nYou won't find living people on any of the sites except the phone book one. You will have to find your grandparents' or great grandparents' birth dates and maiden names somewhere besides the Internet.\n\nThe free sites are supported by advertising, just like TV. You can't watch the Super Bowl without seeing a beer commercial, and you can't surf for dead relatives without seeing an Ancestry advertisement. Don't complain about advertisements. They bring you the "free" sites. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
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Contact your nearest Mormon chapel:\nhttp://www.lds.org.uk/chapel_locator.php\n\nIts OK, they wont try to convert you (well, not much) :-)\nMormons are very big on genealogy and have loads of records and expertise. It is possible that they have a genealogical research group in your area. they have lots of records on hand, and can get microfilm/microfiche of practically any records that you need.\nthey are usually happy to help out and advise any new comers, and will be able to advise the best places to start..........and it's all free
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the library or geneologgy websites will cure this problem my friend!! Family heritage is available on many websites under search engines these days.\nThere is an Ancestory website on line also.
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go to myheritage.com that site should help. \n\nthere is also ancestry.com but you have to pay for that I think.
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try several things\nhttp://www.usgenweb.org/\nhttp://familysearch.org/\n\n\nClick my photo and browse other genealogy type questions\non my answer list. or  contact me and I'll see if I can help  with more details Good Luck
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Family trees don't have symbols.\n\nDo an image search on "family tree."\n\nAlso, family trees are called "pedigree chart."\n\nIt is best to put your genealogical information into a computer program.  They can print out a family tree and other kinds of forms.  Personal Ancestral File is a good one, and it's free!\n\nCheck your local library or online for help knowing how to do research.  You can also ask at the public library to learn how to contact your local genealogical society; they will be glad to help you.
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Links 1 - 3 are large, free general sites full of data.\nCyndi's List has 240,000 free links.\nThe Ancestry site will tell you name origins.\n\nDon't expect to find yourself or your parents or grandparents, if they are living. Most genealogists hide details of living people. It will take time, too. Most young people want to get a 16-generation pedigree chart as easily as they can download an MP3 file. You can't. \n\nhttp://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp\nhttp://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi\nhttp://www.usgenweb.net/\nhttp://www.cyndislist.com/\nhttp://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=
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This is a text file I save and paste for your convenience and mine. I don't have to type it again and you don't have to plow through 47 resolved questions to find it.\n\nGenealogy is a fascinating hobby, but it usually takes more time than most young people are willing to spend. A good family tree takes more time than a term paper, and involves more research. You don't need a college degree to do genealogy, just common sense and patience.\n\nGenealogy is the most popular hobby on the Internet for people over 40. As an example, Cyndi's List (link 1) is a web site with nothing but links to other genealogy sites. She has over 250,000 links.\n\nThe next two links are to the two largest free data bases on the Internet. Family Search (familysearch.com) is run by the LDS Church - the Mormons. RootsWeb World Connect (worldconnect.genealogy) is a collection of genealogical data that other genealogists have uploaded. \n\nTry your two surnames in each data base - your father's surname and your mother's maiden surname. That will give you a feel for how much research has been done on those two surnames. Even better, if you can, call your grandparents and ask what THEIR grandparent's names were - maiden name for the ladies. Their birth day and birth state will help too. Those 16 people are your great-great grandparents. \n\nMost Yahoo! users are 20, give or take 10 years. Most people have children between the ages of 20 and 40, which averages to 30 years per generation. So, if you were born 20 years ago, your mother and father were born 50 years ago, your four grandparents were born 80 years ago, your eight great-grandparents were born 110 years ago and your sixteen great-great grandparents were born 140 years ago. (Those are averages; your results will vary.) If you can get the names of all 16 of your great-great grandparents, you should be able to find at least one or two by name in one of the data bases. You won't find yourself or your parents, because genealogy sites hide dates and details - usually even given names - for people born after 1920. The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) is an exception. It will have people born any time, so long as they have died. \n\nLink 4 (superpages) is a web-based phone book. It will tell you how many people with your surname have listed phone numbers in the US.\n\nLink 5 (begingen.html) is a page on my web site with some hints for beginners. One of the pages is "How to Start". There are also liks to larger, more comprehensive beginner's guides.