Genealogy Kith?

**ballylarkin** · 01-20-2008, 07:27 AM

Anyone else?

**AmyMCGS** · 01-20-2008, 10:12 AM

I am interested in genealogy, but I'm not actively pursuing this interest right now. I kind of go in spurts with working on it.

I have set up a family site with history and links. A cousin is a member of the LDS faith, and they are big into researching family history-- he's researched back into the 1600's on that side of the family. It's fascinating to me.

I have also done a lot of "work" on www.findagrave.com, transcribing sections of local cemeteries and making (free) memorials for my own relatives.

**EmilyD** · 01-20-2008, 10:20 AM

I take tombstone pictures for findagrave as well. Love that site.

I have been researching my family since 1989 .. back 7 generations on all lines including most of the collateral lines on all families. I work on it daily. I volunteer at the Local History Center doing family research. I used to host the county USGenWeb site for 3 years, and people still contact me to do headstones and obits.

I maintain a site on Rootsweb for my family lines as well as one on Ancestry.com with family pictures and documents.

As you can tell, I LOVE genealogy

**ballylarkin** · 01-20-2008, 10:47 AM

I have been researching my family for 32 years. All my ancestors immigrated to Pennsylvania and I have many colonial ancestors.

My tree started spreading out, with the help of familytreemaker software and I now have about 97,000 names and info.

I've taken a few classes through Brigham-Young U regarding genealogy topics as well.

If anyone out there has SE PA ancestors, maybe we can share some info or maybe I can help you out if you haven't been bitten by the genealogy bug yet.

**perSue** · 01-20-2008, 11:07 AM

i've been doing geneology for many yrs - on and off again.
i recently re-found my stuff

and plan on starting up again.

it can be really hard, but it's a lotta fun!

one day i need to go to the main library here and look through what they may have!

but unless it's free, i can't afford the software or other groups online you have to pay for to get answers. i think this information ought to be free.

**ballylarkin** · 01-20-2008, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by perSue

i've been doing geneology for many yrs - on and off again.
i recently re-found my stuff

and plan on starting up again.

it can be really hard, but it's a lotta fun!

one day i need to go to the main library here and look through what they may have!

but unless it's free, i can't afford the software or other groups online you have to pay for to get answers. i think this information ought to be free.

Depending on how far back you've gotten this site may be greatly helpful to you:

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi

Everything is free.....but you have to back at least a couple of generations in most cases.

There are many free sites online, but you are right...the records do cost something to access.

There are also places online where you can actually put your tree on...if that is of interest to you.

**perSue** · 01-20-2008, 01:55 PM

great thanks!

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 01-20-2008, 02:07 PM

Have gone back as far as the 1600 on DH's mom. My family the 1800's and the 1700's on DH's father.
Have enjoyed going to visit many new found family members and have discovered enought "Ski's" to stock a ski lodge.
I have also collected many family items, great grandma's violin, grandma mixing bowls, grandpas trombone, dirt from great great grandmas farm. I've been dubbed the family historian and copies of pictures are always coming to me. New DIL made sure I got a copy of the new marriage license for my books.

Laurie in Bradenton
Family names : Wilkowski, Tarkowski, Jahnke, Galle, Luedtke, Kawczynski, Kowalski, Ugowski, Richards, Markmann, O'Neill, Graska, Torzola,Berger, Baum,

**wulong32** · 01-20-2008, 02:33 PM

Ive been doing research on and off for the last couple years. Ive finally got my sister on the bandwagon. I found out Im related to Lucille Ball! Any chance anyone on here is a Little, Randall, Cantrell, or Doherty?

**ballylarkin** · 01-20-2008, 03:57 PM

Lucille Ball!!!! Cool... I always loved her!

I'm related to Tina Yothers from family ties...ha, her name is in a family history book of mine.

**acidcookie** · 01-20-2008, 05:05 PM

I know nothing of anyone past half my grandparents. I only even know one grandma's name right now. I really want to put something together for future generations in my family because it makes me sad that none of us has kept any real record.

I was born in Germany and immigrated with mom when I was young, and the rest of my still lives there. I hear my great-grandma was Romanian. That's my spotty knowledge. No clue of my last name, anything. I actually just wrote my dad (who I am in touch with for the first time in about 15 years) yesterday to ask more about our last name, his parents, etc.

**acidcookie** · 01-20-2008, 05:11 PM

Wanted to add some family names: Schmelzer, Spannenberg, Hirsch, Oeldorf...

**frugal-fannie** · 03-19-2008, 05:35 AM

I also go in spurts, I got interested as a high school project. I also have a few native american indian decendents. I have been trying to find which tribes they belonged to. I have had other people in the family working on different family lines. I have with help traced mine back to the Mayflower2xs Scotland in the 1500s, England in the 1300's Germany in the 1700's, Sweden ,Ireland, Wales and France.I think they have fought most wars in this country back to the revolutionary war and also fought with the Black Prince. They have been indentured servants, farmers, doctors, blacksmith coal miners. I am off course fascinated what they died from and inherited disease.

**Paquita** · 03-19-2008, 09:41 AM

My dad is really into genealogy and I am catching the bug from him. I don't have time to do anything right now, maybe when I finish school. He is working on Warr, Henson, Isgett, Devine. He was using Family Tree Maker but recently started using Legacy 6. He likes it better.

**EmilyD** · 03-19-2008, 10:44 AM

There are lots of free sites online. Here are some:

http://www.usgenweb.com/ (Great site for most counties in the US)
http://www.findagrave.com/ (sometimes you get hedstone photos)
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi (social Security Death Index)
http://genforum.genealogy.com/ (Free query posting)
http://www.familysearch.org/ (LDS free search) *use with caution, not all material is backed up with reliable sources Free 1880 search (so does ancestry.com)
http://www.ancestry.com/ (there are free sources at this site)
http://208.119.135.17/db/in_marriage...ges_search.asp (free marriage searsh for Indiana to 1850)
http://www.archives.gov/ Free searches
http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi (search for towns and states)

USGenWeb also has county sites for other countries ... some counties have a lot of info, others don't have as much.

I have an annual subscription to ancestry.com .. it easily pays for itself with the full copies of the entire census and the WW1 draft registrations. The fact you can search all the census in one stop makes it even better.