Why is it so hard to find out my familys history before the colonization of the Americas.?
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After people immagrated to the US, the country of where they came from didn't keep their record anymore, if the country even KEPT records
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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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I don't think most of know our ancestry back that far, I can't even find out what my grandfathers name is. I would assume that the number would be fairly low, considering all the immigration that has taken place since the Civil War.\nWonderful question!
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I am part Native Hawaiian ... via my mother's family ... we can trace our roots back over 200 years ... its amazing really ... geneology can be fascinating ... I have to do mine still ... my cousins have all done theirs already
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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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Because no one here is really native to this land, other than the true Native Americans.  I answer, Canadian - but I can break it down even more than that.  Many people have parents that are from the 'old country'.  I think these questions are asked to learn more about where someone's last name comes from, but more so, just a friendly and non-intrusive way to carry on a conversation.  \n\nOh and on a side note, thanks for your best answer rating - I find you all over the place 'out here'  perhaps you could write to me?
553333
Try going to the Morman Church. They have birth records going back hundreds of years.
61395
Today such questions are being answered with DNA testing to determine what areas of the world one's ancestry originates.  At some point I'm not sure the question is any more than to answer curosity, unless there is a legal issue such as discrimination in question.
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That's a good question, and seeing as how I'm related to alot of families (like most people really, they just don't know it), now you have me wanting to know.  But right now I don't. Even though I have a recently deceased grandmother who loved to follow the family tree's roots REALLY far. \nP.S. Thanks for getting me on a 'google' tangent again. Sigh.
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Try Ancestry.com   Not sure if it will give you the info you need but i know there is info there on my computer but I also have the family tree maker installed.
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Yes.  Doing genealogy, it took me 15 years to find the names of my great-great-great grandparents.  It only became possible after the 1850 census was put on the computer.
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Try Wikipedia. I found the ethnicity of my last name from there.
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You can start by asking family members as much as you can about parents, grandparents etc. including places of birth etc. After you get all that information a good place to start is www.rootsweb.com, it is a free ancestry site that is hosted by www.ancestry.com. You can look up ancestors by surname (last name), locations (country,state,county,and city). There are many other headings that can help you. You can also search family trees, someone else may have already done research on one of your ancestors. You can also request a look-up and someone might research census records from 1790-1910 to help you. There is also a site www.familysearch.org., it is also a free site hosted by the LDS (Church of The Latter Day Saints), they have birth, death, marriage and the census from 1880.
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And you want us to??????????what?\n\noic.  I will try to look it up on my ancestry site if you want.I'll be back!\nI did find info but then I couldn't find the question again.  I'll come back and edit.
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That requires some research. One of the best places to do research is Net Detective, the link is in my sources. You can look up people and run surname searches to investigate your or someone elses family history.
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Ancestry.com is great to start with, they have taken over everything they could get their hands on so they have all the archives.  If you can find one household in the Census records you'll find you can go back from there.  You'll find enough just from Ancestry to make a pretty good tree, and through their message boards you're likely to run into distant cousins looking at the same thing.
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I've been researching for 3 years (i live in Maryland/ Delaware mason-dixon line area) and use ancestry.com, too. but to be honest, i found a lot of misinformation there...try rootsweb.com......it has a lot, at least it did for me and it's FREE. i paid $200 for ancestry. i found it was just a good place to start, but lots of bad "info" that can be confusing to starters, though it does have great census and newspaper collections.\nmy best advice is to enter the address for your research areas (county, state, etc.) in google and follow it from there...u will find libraries and so much more, even Archives with family records. i found out that my family were early settlers from England in the First state, Delaware, and had tons of my family's records, Bibles, etc. in the state and national archives. \nHappy Hunting! It's amazing what you'll find once you get going!