Tracing Your Family History - How to Get Started
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My husband found his birth parents’ family on AncestryDNA. He always knew he was adopted and wasn’t really looking for them actively, but now we have relationships with so many of them and it’s amazing.
That’s awesome. I’m so glad he was able to find his family.
Looks like we are distant cousins. My 16th great grandfather was King James II of Scotland
My grandpa is super into genealogy he learned that my dads family on my grandpas side went all the way to King Arthur the first: he also learned that on my grandmas side we are related to cornel Tarlton who was the British dragoon who was infamous for cutting down surrendering/retreating militia my family was so sicked by his actions that during the revolutionary war we changed our name to talton
@Conner Winedark
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@@swanson2409 especially in Alabama and Alaska
@@SnepBlepVR which king Arthur would that be?
I find genealogy so interesting and am glad to have found this video! One of my relatives put together a small book with information about my family (which I’d like to do my own research about to verify) dating all the way back through the 1400’s where my ancestor, Sir John Pennington, sheltered King Henry VI after the battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses and received a glass drinking bowl as thanks, which became known as the “Luck of Muncaster,” named after Muncaster Castle which still stands to this day and is owned by my ancestor’s family, and has even become a sort of tourist destination that includes haunted tours, including the likes of the ghost of the fool that inspired the word “tomfoolery.” I’m taking it with a grain of salt for now since it’s from a single book, but assuming that is my family that’s related to all that, I find it so cool!
All in favor for him to press his claim to the Scotland Throne say “aye”.
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Just a warning, bots are going round TH-cam posting a time stamp and a malicious link.
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@@strawberryeventing1738 what a renegade
thank you comrade
I've gotten sucked into ancestry worm hole. It's been a ton of fun and found out so much I didn't know about my family history. 6000 people in my tree so far. Connections to 5 presidents. Governor's. Mayor's. Generals. Etc. Highly encourage everyone to do it
Thank you so much for this video. During quarantine, I went hard, doing my family tree. I actually found out my 6th great grandfather was Elijah Stanton whom was one of George Washingtons bodyguards during the revolutionary War. Took part in the battle of Momouth and the crossing of the Delaware AND was taken prisoner on the HMS Jersey, contracted smallpox but survived and lived to be 94 and have 10 children.
In the LDS church I have had many opportunities to volunteer doing data entry and transcribing these census forms. It's actually a lot of fun being able to view these old documents.
Very interesting! I've got a record of my family up to the 1520's. Turns out that my father, and his father, and his father etc were all born in the same village that i was born in. We are Dutch and a lot of our ancestors moved to the US back when we had colonies in the US Northeast (New Amsterdam etc), one of them being Claes Maertenszoon van Roosenvelt, yes the same Roosevelt as Teddy and FDR. There is a museum a few towns over dedicated to the roosevelt family.
I have one family branch that goes back to New Amsterdam, as well! My 11th great-grandfather on that branch was Anthony Janszoon Van Salee, who was the son of the Dutch pirate Jan Janszoon. Jan was captured by Algerian pirates and given the choice of death or conversion to Islam, so he converted. He became one of the Sale Rovers, as well as President of Sale and Grand Admiral. His son is thought to have been the first devout Muslim to settle in North America. He was known in New Amsterdam as “the Turk” due to his religion and his mixed race heritage (his mother was Moroccan).
So fascinating! It’s a shame that Asian records aren’t the best
Laughs as an African lol
@@kwakuasiedu7279 I wanna learn more African history my history book barely mentions u guys at all😥
@@strawberryeventing1738 Find new ones because Africans are talked about a lot in World History
@@rbriggman03 gonna order new history book tomrw hopefully it has info
Are middle eastern records good? My grandfather is from Lebanon and I’m curious about his ancestry. Also he lived in Turkey for a year for school so maybe they have access to records too.
I have to thank you so much for this, found out one of my 6th great grandfathers was a captain in the War of 1812.
Im actually from and live in Whitchurch Cardiff, Wales. You can imagine the surprise when such a small and unknown city is on this video. It's fascinating 🤣
It’s so cool seeing people be able to do this, I was born in Colombia and my mom was adopted so I’m pretty sure mines pretty limited
Perhaps u can find ur maternal grandparents via the app
All I heard was "my grandmother was born, i know this because she's alive" and I mean, man's spitting facts
Both of our families are rooted in E. KY as well. Very cool
Im a descendent of Lawrence Washington and Mildred Warner the Grandfather and grandmother of George Washington. Also cousins with George Patton through Lawrence Washington. going through my family tree made me feel more connected with my ancestors. Also 3rd cousins with Uylsses S Grant on my dads side.
Probably one of the things that made me love history myself? When I was a child, about age 7 if I recall, I was over at my Grandparent's place regularly. And snooping around in their attic I found something no one really ever talked about in the family. A box full of old journals. This wasn't too unusual as quite a few of my relatives kept journals. For example my grandmother who kept up a daily journal that was mostly related to the business of running her farm, noting key events, weather, etc. But what surprised me was finding the journals of what was my Great-Great Grandmother.
Turns out she was a Sami, or Lapplander if you will. Who had been born and raised inside of Finnish territory. And it had described events that I hadn't been aware of and really opened my eyes. Including why she fled to the US. She had just become an adult, married, and was expecting a kid. And the Finnish government sent people to her village. They were demanding that the locals give up their own children to be raised in Finnish schools as what (from how she described it) could only be comparable to some of the ethnic cleansing that North American tribes faced in the likes of the Canada, trying to take children away from their families to raise them as Finnish Protestants, to destroy their culture over generations (if I remember Spanish settled Latin America had a very similar program going on at one point).
She mentioned how one of her neighbors refused to give up her kid. So they shot them in cold blood and took the kid anyway.
That made her realize just how bad it was going to be, and what the government there was going to force her to do. So she packed up as much as she could and fled into the night, into Sweden, then Denmark, then Germany to finally catch a boat from Germany into the US, because she had heard of the US as this shining beacon of freedom where the government couldn't and wouldn't do anything even remotely like it. As opposed to most of Europe who treated her people apparently about as good as Jews and Gypsies were treated by most of Europe... Even met her husband on that boat of hopeful immigrants, a German fellow who they had caught the fancy of each other on the ship.
And this old journal barely scrawled out in English. Noting that she wrote it late in life because she wanted no one to forget. And most of my family did forget. I gather from how little anyone knew what I was talking about at the time someone just threw it in a box of her stuff when she died and kept it in storage without ever really reading it. And future generations hadn't either.
And there I was, a 7 year old reading this scrawled out journal that was older than anyone still alive. Reading it at first thinking it was almost some big adventure story like you'd see on TV. Fleeing these brutal murdering thugs in the government, cross country treks to a promised land, the hardships of the Atlantic Crossing and immigration, how proud she was to assimilate into American Culture that had given her this life that she otherwise couldn't have (apparently she went from Nomadic Dirt Poor about to be shot in the face by the government who invaded their lands to decently well off land owner of a Homestead Act ranch).
That’s amazing
Do your best to keep the notes well preserved and digitalize what you can, including the entire story
I saw the word Sami and immediately knew. Wow
Wow.
I love how passionate you get when talking about this. I have used ancestry for a while now and I learned about an uncle I never knew I had. He pass away before I was born and my dad just never talked about him. I was also a Civil War reenactor and did events at the Cedar Creek battlefield for 6 or 7 years when I lived in PA. Through Ancestry I learned I had an an ester who fought at the Battle of Cedar Creek and was wounded at the battle. It is so cool to find these details
Awesome. My 3rd Great grandfather John William O'bryan (maternal grandmothers paternal great grandfather). Who was from Lousia county KY. Was in both valley campaigns, cedar creek, and 2nd mannassas. He was in the 5th W.VA (Union) Infantry
I am very lucky and 6 generations of my family have lived on the same property. We know when they came to this state and we know the whole family tree until that point. Very fortunate to have a grandfather who loved learning about his family so we got to hear about it as children. I would like to know why they came here, and where they were before coming here.
My Middle older brother was a part of the President and Vice President communication team during the Reagan Administration. He met both Ronnie and George. He even tuned in a ball game for GHW Bush a few times and they listen to baseball together.
Always great to see a video from my favorite 6th cousin through my ancestor Josiah Marcum
(Josiah was the father of your something great grandfather James E. Markham.)
Josiah was the father of 3 of my 5th Great grandfathers. (Ofc the connections are from marriages of 4th and 5th cousins)
My great great great great great great grandfather was Henry Adams, who came here to America in the early 1600s. Interestingly, his great grandson was John Adams!
My family has always been interested in genealogy on both sides. On one side im related to 3 people who signed the magna carta, and on the other side we recently found my grandpas birth father
My Grandma is huge into genealogy. She has been doing work with it for around 50 years. I don't know how accurate it is, there's most likely some discrepancies somewhere, but she's done so much that on one line on family search I got all the way back to 125 BC. It's amazing how much work she's done for this. She's also really big into the grave finder thing and she and my cousin spent 1 to 2 years finding a grave. I can't remember if it was for an ancestor or just a random person, but still she's incredible when it comes to this kind of stuff. Though it makes it difficult to do this kind of stuff when she's already done a lot of the work.
Looking more into it I have found that I have a lot of power in my ancestry lol. Lots of Royalty like Kings and Queens of the Francs, and I'm related to John Adams and of course his son John Quincy Adams.
@@caboplays Well, technically if you're European or descendant from a European (like a lot of Americans, and Australians, Canadians, etc) then if you go back far enough you're related to a royal.
@@belland_dog8235 Yah, once I got looking even more into and kinda thought about it I kinda came to that conclusion. Also that just about any descendent from Europe is probably related cause of all the inbreeding. So that's fun to think about I guess lol.
@@belland_dog8235 european? From which countries? Because for us born in the Balkans tracing anything is next to impossible (I'm greek btw). My Island was for around 400y in the hands of the Ottomans. Before that in the hands of the Genoese. Before that we were at the hands of the Byzantine empire (the last time we were a part of anything greek, was in the early 13th century with the Byzantine empire loll). From 1834-1912 we were a principality of the ottoman empire, then we finally joined Greece. So imagine trying to find your ancestors in this mess. I also have ancestors from Asia Minor (modern day turkey), and another greek island. It's literally next to impossible to find anything whatsoever. Y'all very luck to be able to trace your ancestors...
Just found out I also have ancestors who lived in Tipton during the 1700s and 1800s with the surname Ralph.
Hey, I am from the Niles area and I read in the paper last month that your uncle passed away. My condolences
I’m a descendent of General John W Geary of the Union Army in the Civil War. He’s from a county just north of where I live in Pennsylvania
I started my Ancestry journey some 10 years ago. Adoptee. No knowledge of my father, but some info on mothers side. I was told my grandmother was a MacDonald. It turned out she is a MacKenzie traceable back to the Gairloch family. James IV STEWART is my 14th GGF.
The MacKenzies and MacDonalds had there clashs. They also had arranged marriages. From memory, it was rather recent that they signed some sort of peace treaty.
I found my fathers side via AncestryDNA.
I feel for your wife on the Austrian Hungarian thing. My ancestor is from Konigsberg which is in modern day Kaliningrad, Russia (Russia’s Baltic territory split completely from the rest of the country). That area of land has been in Polish-Lithuanian hands, Prussian hands, and Russian hands in the last 400 years. My ancestor was German but those areas of the world for much of their history were constantly changing hands.
"Cause my Children can say they are descended from a Disney princess" 😂😂😂🤣
My wife’s family is from Lewistown, PA!
Врло занимљиво. Велики сте посао урадили. Браво.
Randomly popped up in my recommended so I watched out of curiosity. My ears perked up when you said your great-great-great-grandmother was born in Lewistown, PA which is where I was born and raised.
Been doing family research for a while and my big tips are :
1. do not underestimate DNA services. Ethnicity estimates are interesting but the cousin matching is the gold mine. each match is a data point hinting to a line of ancestors and you may be able to help each other.
2. do not be uptight of data you "know for certain". been searching my Irish ancestor and the reason he was so hard to find was because his records were inconsistent. some documents said he was born in 1880's other say he was born in 1870's. some say he in his 80 when he died others say 90's. and this was especially true on Irish records. records in US had one last name irish had another. his parents were one name and other documents were another. the important thing is getting enough confidant data that you can see patterns. so that yeah the birth date may be off but on that document his name and address are the same as the census you found and the one of the signatures on the document may be a his wife or son.
3. don't be afraid to ask living relatives for information. On line stuff is well and good but the info your family has may be key in breaking a brick wall. On of my living relatives has an old grave deed listing known ancestors, giving me confirmation on important data such as birth/ death dates, and ages at death. but also several people on the deed were unknown. looking closer at one of the census these names showed up with names of my family. potentially showing me a whole line of cousins i didn't know about.
4. do not put too much stock in Family tree matches. a strangers family tree is only as good as their detective work, and i seen some pretty shity detective work. one family tree match i got someone attatched a news article from the 1960 close to Pittsburgh to an ancestor with a similar name whos live and died in Philadelphia in 1930's. the important thing are documents so if you look into trees then do your homework on the documents they have logged.
Additional tips
1 enter dates with written months eg 1 Dec 1800. This is very important because in Europe this would be written 1/12/1800 while in the US it would be written 12/1/1800. Dec 1, 1800 would also be acceptable though the genealogy standard is 1 Dec 1800.
2 keep notes! Ancestry and other platforms conveniently attach sources but if you manually add info from something like an obituary the source will not be recorded. All platforms have notes fields and it is good to record things such as sources, errors in the record and why you still think it matches, the searches you have done to try and find information and more.
3 Beware of border changes and town name changes. For example county boundaries in England changed quite a lot over time. One example is Huntingdonshire most of which is now in Cambridgeshire, or towns with German names in South Australia which were all renamed during WW1. Even countries change borders and or names, Germany being a good example as it technically did not exist before 1870 but was several different principalities/kingdoms and these were therefore kept in different jurisdictions. So look up the correct location name/jurisdiction for the time period you are searching.
A thing to note about the Ancestry DNA results is "AncestryDNA calculates your ethnicity estimate by comparing your DNA to a reference panel made up of DNA samples from thousands of people, representing 70 groups. Because our reference panel and the way we analyze your DNA both change as we get more data, your ethnicity results can change as we get more data" It's an educated guess based on what other members put in their trees.
I did mine a few years back. I pretty much trusted what other people had done, so I don’t know how accurate everything was. But one cool thing I found is apparently my 7th great grandfather married Tabitha Harrison, daughter of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence and sister of President William Harrison.
Almost the first thing I found doing my trees, is that my Wife's German born grandfather lived 15 miles my Norwegian Grandmother, in Minnesota from around 1900 to 1910, when they were children
damn i missed it, by a like 5 min video as well. Also in the UK i think we get census results published 2 years or 100 years after im not sure
That spelling is definitely true. In a period of 4 generations my last name was spelt 3 different ways
11:30 Fun fact: Back in the days, the yen+dollar exchange rate used to by 4 yen for 1 dollars. bear in mind, this was when the dollar was still as valuable as it is in 1939. So one yen was actually worth a lot back in the days. now compare to today. You think the dollar doesnt have any value today anymore? compare with one yen. Its mindblowing how currencies develope over time. Here in Germany, we dont really have a sense for this really, since we changed currencies soo often, while the UK , the US or Japan always sticked to their temporarily broken currencies, decided to fix them instead of getting rid of them
It’s crazy to hear you talk about Ferrybridge and Skipton, I live very close by and it’s fascinating to learn about your ancestors there!
My 11th great grandfather is a guy named John Wheeler who immigrated to America through the Great Migration. He connects me to presidents Garfield, Arthur, Hoover, Ford and the 2 Bushes. My 9th great grandmother is a woman named Hannah Duston who was taken captive by Abenaki people from Quebec during King William's War, with her newborn daughter, during the Raid on Haverhill in 1697, in which 27 colonists were killed. In her account she stated that the Abenaki killed her baby during the journey to the island. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped ten of the Native American family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives. My 14th great grandfather is named Robert "The Smythe" Pease, and my 11th great grandfather, another Robert Pease, founded the town of Edfield in Connecticut with his son John.
My grandfather (not sure how far back as in terms of greats) was one of the first burgesses in America. His name is on the marker in Jamestown. Samuel Jordan was his name.
I was born in nantyglo 1 mile from blaina and worked most of my life in ebbw vale, so when you come to uk give me a shout and I'll show you around
I have just watched this. Great. I am descended from James V of Scotland (Euphimie Elpinstone) by both my biological and adoptive (Stewart) families.
I’m related to James Caldwell! He is my sixth great-grand uncle. He was brothers with my 6th great grandfather Robert Caldwell.
Not sure if ur gonna see this message but I live in wednesbury pretty cool that your family originated from the area
That's awesome. There's a pub on Church Lane in Tipton my family owned called the English Oak.
Great video. I'm also a huge genealogy and history person. Such interesting topics to research together. Genealogy makes history so much more interesting. One of your noble/royal links cuts relatively close-ish to mine.
I too descend from Edward III through his son Lionel and his daughter Philippa. My line links down through Henry Hotspur as well and John the 7th Lord Clifford. I descend from your ancestor's (the 8th Lord) sister Mary who married Sir Phillip Wentworth. That leads down to my gateway ancestor William Farrar who came to Jamestown (being part of the Farrar/Ferrar family who were heavily involved and invested in the Virginia Company, such as his cousin Nicholas Ferrar). My line leads down to a George Farrar who married a Judith Jefferson also my ancestor and aunt of President Thomas Jefferson.
Nearly all of my lines are colonial American, with the vast majority being Southern though a couple branches leading and expanding in the North as well (being from the West I descend from people from both regions, if mostly from the South). One line immigrated from Germany the 1840s. I've been fortunate enough to trace them back to a 300-400 person village in Germany (Gerterode) and correspond with a parish there that was able to get my birth and marriage records locally that give me a further generation (primary line being the Rudloff surname). Unfortunately I dead end there but pretty hard to scour German records beyond that myself without being able to read the language (and the trail might just run cold anyways since they weren't wealth or anything, one was from a father that was a Linen weaver and another called something along the lines of a hand laborer). Still was great getting that (and lucky the parish there responded to my google translated to German request lol).
Despite having many lines that intertwine there is only one incident I've found of pedigree collapse that is awkwardly close. One of my lines leads up to a bunch of Quakers (originating in Pennsylvania, a line that I shared ancestry with Richard Nixon of all people) where an ancestor married a first cousin once removed. Interestingly though my parents come from very different areas (my father was born in California with his parents born in Kansas and Arkansas, and my mother's parents all born in Texas) they both lead to the South and overlap sometimes as even neighbors I've only found one shared set of ancestors. Naturally it happened to be the same shared ancestors of that cousin marriage above, making me three times descended from their common ancestors, just those funny coincidences you find in genealogy lol.
When your work load slows down I might have to see if I can hire your services to help dig through some records I can't easily get access to being in Arizona. Most of my ancestry is in the South and I've found some sources I've wanted to get my hands on but mostly only exist either in local archives in places like Georgia or in the LSD library in Salt Lake City. I've done pretty extensive genealogy over the last 10-20 years or so and though I'm no professional credit myself being pretty thorough and effective (digging through the countless thousands of pages of land deed, grants, probate records, court minutes, etc) but there are a couple brick walls that I'd be interested in hiring help on. I'm not sure if brick wall lines are something you take work for though? (Knowing that clearly the progress gained on an already researched and brick walled line will be much slower and might still not find too much). Some things are just time prohibitive and someone even more proficient like yourself might make progress where I've dead ended.
Hey, really interesting video. I did some of my own family research a while ago and your video has inspired me to pick this back up again, so thank you! Point of interest- My Paternal Great Grandfather's brother, Walter (so my 2x Great Uncle? I think?), was in the same Regiment as Joseph Corden, though he was in the 2nd Battalion of the Sherwood Forresters. Sadly he was KIA Dec. 1916. Interesting to think that they may have met or even fought together.
I have a few ancestors in the sherwood foresters, small world.
Census spelling: My GGrandfather from southern Missouri had twin sisters, Eva and Emma, who were more than once listed as Ever and Emmer on census rolls. GGrandad was Ivan, once listed as Iojban.
Wow i was just thinking about tracing my family history and then you upload this video. Could the timing be any better.
It's so funny to me that you're 6 years older than me but your grandmother is only 4 years older than my parents. I am the youngest of 4 and my parents were 36 when I was born though. You're actually younger than my eldest sibling and same age as my 2nd elsest
Late comment but I started searching for my ancestry, on my mother's side went back to early 1600 and probably not done (found where that side of the family migrated from France to Quebec)
However my father's side I am so completely stunned - after Canada's 1921 census there is a void of nothing - birth certificates, marriages, deaths, etc. nothing I can link. My grandfather was supposed to be born in 1923 - no records. He used a different name on his grave and most of his life than his real, roadblocked. Great grandfather doesnt show in the 1931 census. I need to rewatch this video to keep trying from another angle!
There are some challenges to researching family trees. There are also many great rewards. Looks like your family tree is steeped in history.
Some challenges I would like to get your thoughts on.
First are last names. A son's last name can be a slightly different spelling than his fathers. Second are birth dates and dates of death that may be close but don't quite match.
One such person who has these differences in my family tree is an interesting character. Colonel William Claiborne who was born in England moved to Virginia Colony in 1620 and became the 1st Secretary of Virginia. The spelling of the Claiborne sir name is all over the place. Spellings include, Claiborne, Cleburn, Cleborne, Cleyburn, Cleyborn, etc . . . From my understanding is there are several possible reasons for this. There are smudgy documents, misspellings, and other reasons. Then there is the matter of his birthdate. There is 100% agreement on the date of his death. There are two dates for his date of birth. As I have learned from research, there are those in Merry Old England that did not see the birthday as we do as the day you arrived on this Earth. Instead, the date of Christening or Baptism was used by some, but not all people back then. Some may have had date of birth and a date of Baptism as you will see here
I confirmed this Colonel William Claiborne is indeed my 11th Great Grand Father. His actual birth date is in dispute. Some have it as 10 August 1587 at Crayford, Kent, England while others have it as his Baptism date of 10 August 1600. Date of death is 21 March 1677 at Romancoke, New Kent, VA, USA. He may be the first colonist to take up arms against the British Crown in a dispute with the Calverts over the Island of Kent that he was founding as a trading post. He is a GGF of Liz Claiborne which makes the late fashion designer a long distant cousin, though I never got to meet her.
Navigating these records and hints is tricky. I did tear down one branch of my tree because there were too many discrepancies. I would rather be as accurate as possible than to tie myself to a wagon that isn't mine.
Ireland lost a huge chunk of eight centuries of records, including 19th century censuses, when the building they were kept caught fire during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Big gap that church records can only cover so much.
Yeah, one of my ancestors immigrated from Tipperary Ireland to Canada in the mid-19th century. I've pretty much given up on tracing them any father than Canadian records can go.
I live in the town of Tredegar in South Wales, not far from Blaina and the next town over from Ebbw Vale :O
In the UK the 1921 census is the latest available I believe, being released last year. They are typically released after 100 years.
Unfortunately during ww2, the census records for either 1931 or 1941 (I forget which, maybe even both) were destroyed in a fire. So I the future UK census records will have a 10-20 year gap in available records. However some of the census data in Scotland wasn't stored in London at the time, so may still exist.
I really want to start getting into searching my family history. I know my grandmother came from what is now northern Ireland, but don't know exactly where or other details. The find a grave detail is great, though doubtful it would be helpful a I know all of my grandparents were cremated, so there won't be headstones etc.
BTW, I live about 30-40 miles from tipton.
There's so much we can find in our family history! On my mum's side, my great-great grandfather owned a big plantation in the south during the early 1800s. My grandfather lived in Argentina, immigrating from Germany where he was a dog handler of some sorts. Then immigrated to the USA where he met my grandmother. Crazy how different they were and ended up meeting!
Crazy im also a descendant of the Hatfield family!
My great grandmother was born in the same town as Audie Murphy twenty years apart
My ancestors held the position of Lords of the Manor in Warwickshire. Lol didn't know that
Talk about skeletons.. 3 in my family has comitted suicide the last 30 years which must be some kind of record. And 1 in my family did some ancestry research and apparently in the 1800 someone in my family murdered someone. This video made me wanna do some research myself though! I'm very interested in history and the point you brought up about having a personal connection with history is something I haven't thought about before so thanks for that. I'm Swedish tough like 99% I bet and my ancestors were as most swedes back to the 1800s very poor farmers but I think there should be some church dokuments and stuff. Probably some military documents maybe back in the 1700s (when we had a military😅😅)
Have you ever considered watching Historia Civilis? His storytelling style is very interesting.
I was just about to recommend him his videos on post Caesar Rome are great!
I found it pretty interesting that you had an ancestor march into Vicksburg and March 22 1863 I had an ancestor die in Vicksburg
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm your cousin as well, Edward III is my 20th great-grandfather. :D
What kind of monster?...Some kind of monster :)
Man, I feel so inspired after watching this. Unfortunately, I’m a first generation American from Cuban parents and I highly doubt I can find any of this information from communist Cuba.
I wish georgia was able to keep records like this. Maybe the soviets did. But nothing before that unless family kept records :(
I cannot imagine how hard it would be for me to try and find information about my great-grandparents, since I live in Russia and our history for the past 200 years has been just crazy with all the revolutions and world wars.
coincidentally, I was making a genealogical tree, when suddenly it appears as a suggestion, it is that my grandmother is the ancestor of a British captain named James Cook.
Found a connection to James IV through both my grandfathers. Both were through his Illegitimate daughter Janet 'the beautiful Scotswoman'
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Nah dude, Thomas Riddle is voldemort, you're related to voldemort.
Wow, your wife's Welsh ancestors are from Mynyddyslwyn and lived in Blaenavon. Mynyddyslwyn is the valley next to mine and Blaenavon is at the top of my valley
And my Crofts lived in the next valley over in Ebbw Vale.
@@VloggingThroughHistory I watch rugby there most weekends
On my moms side i am related to a drummer of the war of 1812 and in my dads side i believe i am related to a Confederate Arkansas Calvary officer although i cant find the information again which kinda sucks
I wish I had grandmas and grandpas living just mom and dad
Never had any famous great grandparents on my family tree but I have had tons of famous distant cousins. Most of my ancestors were a bunch of Farmers in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia.
I would be really interested in knowing what languages my ancestors could read or write in.
Can’t be hard to figure via process of elimination
Lol only one person has ever gotten any further back in my family than when my great grand parents came over and our name was Americanized in the early 1900s. You are welcome to dig into that if you want. My uncle paid a bunch and managed to get some info but he is the only one that has anything. For all I know half my family could be war criminals or something crazy considering how much German ancestry we are supposed to have but I would love to know as much as I can, bad or good. They aren't me so I just want to know. I may have to learn how to do all of this some time.
You are 18 years older than me and my Grandmother was born 22 years before yours... that is crazy
Crazy huh? My wife and I are the same age and her great-grandfather was born in the early 1830s. 6 of my 8 great-grandparents were born after 1905.
How to find my grandmas mother and father they arrived in America on slave ships ???
My name, Pickett, is misspelt in the census at least 50 times. The census officer I guess thought it was spelt with one T.
About the part of leaving things out of your reviews when people are paying, i totally understand your position, and so knowing this if i did ever ask someone else to do research on my family history i would specifically tell them (or you) to include any and all information, good or bad . personally i just like to know the truth.
I know this is an old video but you said "German/Prussian records are excellent". My surname comes from Prussia yet I can't seem to go back any further than an ancestor on that line past one born in 1830s. Only like my 4th great grandfather or something.
Looks like we’re distant cousins through Rev. John Drake and Rebecca Trotter
My moms moms maiden name is Bowling which goes back to Bolling whom I’m related to as well.
How you do hints is cross reference check censors also check 1939 registers but check matched births and area of living .
Hey, i am from Norway and i would apreciate if you would like to react to operation weserubung, Keep up the good work Respect from Norway!
I wonder how good Mexican and Spanish records are
If you have some old pictures of your relatives, on myheritage there is a tool to make black and white pictures in colour
It also animates them.
We all have good and bad in our trees...I knew the Riley family line had Indian somewhere according to most family members but I didn't know how....recently believe I accidentally found info....yep info that priced we all have at least one skelton...Andthank God we all have good also...I'm not sure exactly which daughter of war chief we are directly related to but it's by way of Ningon Riley who I know I'm related to not just by greatgradfather but because they all liced in same counties ect ect and all have more than one other family member who were all related. I USED CENSUS, ALSO find a grave and viewed sources listed and used them to back track several of their family listed ect.
Though excellent, Find A Grave is just as prone to errors as other user submitted data, and it is predominantly without references. Hence all info on this platform should be considered with the same critical review as hints on Ancestry and user-submitted trees. Transcripts from tombstones can be taken as a starting point but also subject to error (dates and places) because the info is often given by younger family members.
Dutch records are excellent but they are on a separate paywall platform. This is the case with many European records. Ancestry, Familysearch and others are working hard to access such records but do not have as many.
My family history is in my name so I think im fine lol
For me I’ve been able to trace pretty far back except for more male lineage on my dads side and moms side of the family. My moms side is difficult to track because my great great grandfather took his mother’s maiden name as the new surname because his father basically disappeared after he was born which messes with the algorithm of the websites for as far as adding data. As for my dads side we just haven’t had too much luck. On the maidens side we’ve been able to trace back pretty far back on both my fathers side and mothers side.
I need to have an actual dna test but just from averaging out the data a few generations back I’m pretty sure I’m mostly German and Scandinavian with French, English, and Native American being secondary. It’s funny how my surname is actually English which looks to be a secondary part genetic makeup.
Chris, I just have a question about researching my own genealogy. How hard is it to find WW2 era German records?
@Logan Thomson German records in general or only the ww2 era?
Very hard. The governments in the US and EU all pretty much agree to keep that stuff classified for at least 60-70 years just like the census. The English ww1 records for example weren't kept released until the 1980s as under UK law they have to keep military records private until 62 years after they leave the service. The US and most of Europe agree with that time frame for releasing that information to the public. IIRC there was a wave of information released from 2014-18, 100 years after the events
The English soldiers who were conscripted into the army stayed until 1920, only 2 years after the war ended. English soldiers who were conscripted during ww2 on the other hand were forced to stay in the military until the 1960s, the last of them leaving in 1963. So it is very likely these records will be sealed until 2025 at the earliest.
I'm not German and don't know much about their legal system for stuff like this but the UK laws on this matter were heavily influenced by the European Union so it is likely German records will be released around the same time.
So I'd say they'd be pretty hard to find until 2025-2045. The issue with records of this time frame is the Freedom Of Information Act (or your countries equivalent) which forces governments to reveal classified information and the Privacy Act(or your countries equivalent) which guarantees privacy. I don't think we're going to see many records until most of the people who were adults during the war are deceased.
Apparently my 9th great-grandfather, George Burroughs, was executed in the Salem Witch Trials.
Southern Indiana represent!
I honestly want to know how to do this I know like little about who I’m related to or what my family history is.
My mother has always told me that I am likewise related to Daniel Boone
My mother was Golda Ann Whitaker Tennessee
I have track my family history. I have 2 catholic saints, and count emblem ^^
Any advice on how to determine ancestors previous to 1820's? I found my 4th great grandfather, but the records I am able to find don't help me point to his father, and the family trees with my 4th great grandfather have both his parents at 60 when he was born.