Deviltib

I know as much as where my mother and fathers family came from in Ireland but nothing beyond that. Any of these online sites like ancestry.com worth the money? or any tips for doing it the old fashioned way actually going to the town to try and find any record of my family?

XGODZX

My wife has been doing it on and off for the last 30 years and from her experiences i can recommend not to go to sites or places where they will compile your family tree for you they can be flawed in their results and some charge a lot of money.

With the inception of the internet it has vastly increased the amount of information available now compared to combing through microfiche films and waiting for paper work from other counties etc.

You really need to join a genealogy club/forum etc it makes it a lot cheaper if you can share your resources as they are not cheap and you might find some one who is related and done parts for you. A tip if you do find some already done you still will need to check it for accuracy also some names were changed to escape persecution some were spelled incorrectly an therefore changed etc like a lot from Ireland in the potato famine years one of ours was Lambert but changed it to De lambert.

My wife has spent a lot of money on records,census, birth,death marriages etc so hopefully it will hep some one in the future. It has been interesting even though it's not "my cup of tea" , we have made new friendships with people we have found related overseas especially in our own city .Some famous names have popped up here and there some don't want to share and some don't want to "dig up old skeletons" etc.

Good luck and enjoy your task ahead and you will probably start adding tags to get hits on family names.

Stocker

This one's easy! We all go back to Noah, and then we all go back to Adam. How much farther back do you want to go?!

wheel_of_steel

Actually, our family has been keeping its records for quite a while now. I gotta go back and dig all of that stuff up, but I'm a huge fat mix of british, irish, welsh, and norwegian. But that's going quite a ways back, most of my family has been in Australia for 5+ generations.

i8acobra

faithofadragon

i think hes lookin for info that can actually be proven

Red Raspberry

My cousin was a History professor and when he retired he traced our family back to Prussia. He even came up with a map showing the layout of the town and where the original house was. We have the records from Ellis Island where they entered the US from, pictures of the ship and the ships records.

Stocker

Find another book more authoritative, then.

i8acobra

How about Mad Magazine?

HotBlue02

Ok wait what book are we going from? The Bible and its sequel's or it's prequel's are we talking about? Noah = Ut-napištim = Atrahasis = Ziusudra = Xisuthrus = Deucalion = Nuh