Genealogy site

[journey11]

Anyone here into researching their genealogy? I came across a new-to-me website last night and was able to go WAY back farther in mine than I've ever gotten before. www.findagrave.com It's totally free to use too! I found up to 7th Great-grandparents on my mom's side and immigrants from Ireland and Germany. Also one Revolutionary War patriot and I am eligible to join the DAR. Haven't mapped my dad's side yet, but have mom's all done with what I've found so far.

It's really neat. Check it out and try not to get stuck clicking all day. I still have things to plant and better get to it!

 

[flowerweaver]

I have used Ancestry.com for a decade. I'm a volunteer photographer for findagrave. It's been around for a while. In the last year or so their records have been accessible through Ancestry.com. It's a great website to find out where your ancestors are buried. Some, but not all, memorial entries have genealogy information attached. Since people didn't move around much back then a quick search in an online cemetery will turn up more ancestors. I'm glad you found more about your family @journey11 !

 

[Sam BigDeer]

I did get into that a fevv years back, I'll have to check out this site, Journey.... Thanks for posting..
Sam

 

[catjac1975]

Anyone here into researching their genealogy? I came across a new-to-me website last night and was able to go WAY back farther in mine than I've ever gotten before. www.findagrave.com It's totally free to use too! I found up to 7th Great-grandparents on my mom's side and immigrants from Ireland and Germany. Also one Revolutionary War patriot and I am eligible to join the DAR. Haven't mapped my dad's side yet, but have mom's all done with what I've found so far.

It's really neat. Check it out and try not to get stuck clicking all day. I still have things to plant and better get to it!

My SIL went back to the 17 hundreds over manny years.

 

[journey11]

I have used Ancestry.com for a decade. I'm a volunteer photographer for findagrave. It's been around for a while. In the last year or so their records have been accessible through Ancestry.com. It's a great website to find out where your ancestors are buried. Some, but not all, memorial entries have genealogy information attached. Since people didn't move around much back then a quick search in an online cemetery will turn up more ancestors. I'm glad you found more about your family @journey11 !

I thought about volunteering for that too. There were quite a few requests in my immediate area, cemeteries I'm very familiar with. I think I'd work from the list as time permits for me, since I sometimes have trouble living up some of my extraneous obligations nowadays.

My maternal grandparents' 62nd anniversary is coming up this June. I think I will make a nice copy of their family tree to give them as a gift.

The farthest I got back was a birth-date in 1739!

 

[baymule]

My mom spent over 20 years on family research. This was before the internet. To find information about grave sites, she had to physically visit those cemeteries. She traced us back to year 1,000! She and my dad went to England and Scotland, had the time of their lives and she did lots of research. She published a book 34 years ago and we treasure it. She sold every one she had printed.

 

[journey11]

My mom spent over 20 years on family research. This was before the internet. To find information about grave sites, she had to physically visit those cemeteries. She traced us back to year 1,000! She and my dad went to England and Scotland, had the time of their lives and she did lots of research. She published a book 34 years ago and we treasure it. She sold every one she had printed.

Wow, that's awesome, Baymule! What a legacy.

 

[digitS']

Familysearch.org is also available for us, courtesy of the LDS church. It has changed a lot in the last few years, to the point that I find it difficult to use. However, I have Mormon relatives. Wish they were on more branches of my family ... for the sake of my curiosity .

Findagrave was how I found my grandmother's sister's grave. I mentioned it on TEG, Jan, 2014 (link).

It is a sad little marker, recording an infant's brief life in a little town that has disappeared, other than the cemetery. Her parents packed up their other children and left for Idaho, the follow year.

I was able to find a good number of graves of their brother-in-law's family. Or, I assume so - since it is somewhat of an unusual name. There was no genealogy associated with the website information; maybe because the community is gone, replaced by fairly large estates of many acres. Nearly everyone must have moved away ... or, died.

Steve

 

[bobm]

My wife's aunt did a decades long geneology on her family ... traced it back to mid 1400's ... on her father's side to Canada then to France. On her mother's side to England, Ireland, and Scotland. As for me... my wife's aunt as well as one of my brother's wife traced my family tree back all the way to my parents and my grandmother ( mother's mother). Their grave sites are in California. None of them ever mentioned anyone else other than to say that they were their parents or brother , sister, or cousin but never their names ( too painful to remember their suffering and deaths through the war and fear of communist government reprisals of remaining ( ? ) family members IF they were still alive ) All records were destroyed during WW2. 3 years ago, one of my brother's visited the family town site. It , the church and cemetary, as well as my parents' farms and other holdings are all gone... nothing is left to identify.

 

[journey11]

That thought crossed my mind before you got to posting it, Bob. So sad to think of all traces of those lives having been erased.

There are Shawnee Indian relatives a little ways back on my dad's mom's side. I only know because it was told to me, but I don't expect to find many records.