Raelene Cunnick: The best place to start is by asking your family members, especially the older ones. If their grandparents or great-grandparents came here from another country, they may remember hearing stories about it. However, if your ancestors have been here since the 1600-1700s, it can take years and years of research to discover their origins. Hopefully your teacher realizes that and won't penalize you if you can't find that information by the time your project is due.Now, if you're lucky, perhaps a relative has already done that research and posted it on one of the genealogy websites. But you'll still have to do a little background work before you can find it. To protect people's privacy, genealogy sites don't publish information about living people. So you won't find yourself, your parents, and probably not your grandparents in an online family tree. You'll need to know the name of a great-grandparent or earlier ancestor before you can start searching for ! your family online. If you're able to get that information from a family member, go ahead and search some of the genealogy websites. Here are a few that have online family trees:Ancestryhttp://www.ancestry.com/Default.aspxRootswebhttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgiFamilySearchhttp://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.aspGood luck!...Show more
Berry Gilmore: OH YEAH!!!!!!!! I am sicilian and italian!!!!!!!!
Tricia Dossous: sicilians mostly have greek blood they also roman blood in them as well and maybe spartan blood
Michal Semple: I think that African American's would have a hard time tracing back to anything, as most of us don't truly have a pure African bloodine.
Claire Billegas: Hi Jim, if you are just starting, I suggest you work with your local libraries and hopefully you live near a good genealogy library, such as Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, INdiana or Newberry Library in Chicago, Ill. When you first begin you should b! e hands on and very little on the internet. Your local librari! es might have the WPA Records or other indexes that have been done by genealogical and historical societies. Also DAR Patriot Books.Ancestry is not free unless you sign up for a 7 day or 14 day free trial. Scotlandspeople is a good one for your Scottish line. You can search a few different types of records for free and all others y ou must pay in advance, the explanation is lengthy to explain here.Also check website: www.genealogy-research-tools.com to help you get started....Show more
Ofelia Kieck: Many ppl can
Bianca Lannier: For a project for school I need to find out where my family was originated like which country where can I go to find that out?
Floyd Labuda: I'd recommend you start off with a free based website such as Familysearch.org then branch out once you've become familiar with records, and starting a family tree. Familysearch.org is a database of the LDS (Mormon) collections, and are constantly updating and adding new records. They also have! free tools and software that are great for keeping track of your records.
Tijuana Tatsak: There is a good chance you may have at least one Ghanaian ancestor...Ignore the post above mine! That person obviously does not know much about genetics and ancestry...
Tobie Oshea: ancestry.com is awesome. ive been using it for quite a while now. you will have to pay for it though. you can do the world access one. thats what i have. and you can do a 14 day free trial, and then just cancel it. or, just sign up and pay the money. its just under $30 and then cancel ur account after 30 days. its well worth it. expecially cus your looking into other countries. hope i helped
Rosalba Lingner: Because of the Spartans coming to Sicily during a war.Also most of Sicily's culture has many things to do with Greeks, such as temples, mosaics, and such.
Sharee Doak: Sparta was unique in ancient Greece for its social system and constitution, which completely focused on militar! y training and excellence. Its inhabitants were classified as Spartiate! s (Spartan citizens, who enjoyed full rights), Mothakes (non-Spartan free men raised as Spartans), Perioikoi (freedmen), and Helots (state-owned serfs, enslaved non-Spartan local population). Spartiates (Spartan) were trained for battle and put through grueling challenges intended to craft them into fearless warriors. In battle, they had the reputation of being the best soldiers in Greece, and the strength of Sparta's hoplite forces let the city become the dominant state in Greece throughout much of the Classical period. No other city-state would dare to attack Sparta even though it could only muster a force of about 8000 Spartiates during the zenith of its dominance....Show more
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Monroe Rainey: I started all my family history on familysearch.org( FREE) and than got TONS OF HINTS and birthdays, and thasn I just barely signed up for ancestry.com, and monthly it is only $29.95 or so.You ccan get a ancestry.com free pass for like 1 week and thats ! all, so that isnt free, but I did find alot of family photos of my ancestors on there, and so its definately worth it
Jammie Taddei: Ancestry.com of course
Carolin Southers: 1830s? 1880s? As always, a time frame is very important, not only in your search, but also for us to provide a worthwhile answer.When I first started using this site, everyone suggested Ellis Island...My most recent immigrant ancestor came to the U.S. from England in the 1830s....so, none came through Ellis Island.With no time frame, I have no idea whether or not your ancestors might have come through Ellis Island. But, if it applies, Ellis Island is a good start. Don't forget the Censuses; both State & Federal.Try www.cyndislist.com...a good directory. Try your local library; try all the libraries that might apply to your situation (many immigrants came through the port of Philadelphia; so, PA libraries is good. Also, the L.O.C. (Library of Congress). Ohio, New York, Virginia and Alaba! ma are all good libraries for genealogical research.Wherever your ances! tors lived, try newspaper archives, historical societies, genealogical societies, etc.And, of course, ancestry.com and others, often available at your local public library for free....Show more
Shane Getler: If you have Scottish ancestors you may find Scotland's people website to be useful. There is no fee BUT you will have to pay a small amount to view the record and possibly some more to download a copy of the record you want. However, It is not necessary to get a copy of the certificates and etc. Last time I was on it I believe it was £6 for 30 points. Most records were a point to access although some were 5 points. Once you have bought a record it will be stored in your account and you can view it at any time....Show more
Filiberto Ranalli: https://familysearch.org/ is a good start; but you must realize that the submissions are NOT checked; and there is much misinformation there.Another site to try is http://www.gencircles.com But again, these are uploads ! that many have made. Double check and info,
Toney Flaten: Scuse me, but I'm caucasian, and I have bloodlines back to Ghana.
Alecia Kaehler: Many peoples invaded and settled. there, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Norsemen, Teutons.
Lorelei Lilburn: They have Roman and Greek blood. I'm not sure about Spartan. You'll have to check on that. I found out about Roman and Greek. I'm not sure about Spartan. Sorry. Bye!
Olen Penhallurick: Good boy do your homework.
Cordia Fivecoat: google.com/ancestors.......
Solomon Belback: There are many free resources at most libraries. At my local library I signed up for access to other free genealogy resources that I can get to from my home through the library website - however, ancestry has to be done at the library. All free except printing.Not free but worth the $25 or less to purchase last years family tree database, it comes with a 3 month or longer subscription to Ancestry, which is a great deal. ! The family tree database is an excellent tool for keeping and printing! out info. on your family....Show more
Jonelle Eligio: A great free website for genealogy is http://www.usgenweb.orgIt is an organizaton that is trying to put free information for genealogy on the net so that anyone can look up their family history without charge. It is made up of volunteers from each state and county in the US and elsewhere.A pay site that is definitely worth the money is http://www.footnote.comThe fee to join is very small annually, the last time I joined it was $40.00 for the year and I found some awesome information on my family through it. They are in the process of downloading information from the National Archives and are adding more and more every day. It is an absolutely great value for genealogists.I was a member of Ancestry.com for awhile too, and while they have some great resources I find the steep monthly subscription rate to be too pricey....Show more
Mitchel Demry: I presume you have done all the foundation work asked living rela! tions, checke out all records/documents you and they already have at home, set up FH software on your own computer to keep all your information secure, safe and organised ( online commercial websites offer these however harvest your information to use and sell, limit numbers of people you can put in before you have to pay and you then have to continue to pay to access your own information) All this can be done free, Free FH software, checklists of records at home, help sheets on the documets page ( and some free record indexes for some UK counties) and several links to Scottish and Irish websites, forums, look up services, messsage boards all free. UK/Ireland based http://familytimeline.webs.com...Show more
Torrie Weissenbach: OK don't know much about it and I'm caucasian and live in Australia but there are more countries in Africa than just Ghana. If you're the descendants of African slaves though and this isn't just something which happened in America it also hap! pened in other countries too you can probably trace at least one bloodl! ine back to the country they came from.
Solomon Belback: They certainly have Roman & Greek blood. The Spartans were also Greeks. Sicilians also have Arab blood from the Moors. Poor Sicily, it was always being invaded by some group or another.
Forest Duttinger: I would suggest that you use the computers in public libraries or at Family History Centers, it is free and most have access to several subscription Genealogy sites.You could access historical records on Familysearch.org from home. I no longer use Ancestry because there is to much information on the site that is either incorrect or has been copied for a chart that is already on the site, which is a waste of time for a legitimate researcher.There is a tutorial on the Family Search site under the research tips tab, that has very good information about researching in Ireland and Scotland....Show more
Maynard Phoubandith: Your best bet would be to go to your local library branch because most of the loc! al libraries are set up with ancestry.com and you can use their account to do research for free.As you already know from the other posts you can get a free trial period on Ancestry for 14 days. Even after the 14 days you can still access your account for free and make any additions or changes to it. What I've done is set up a free account on Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com. They are very easy to use and navigate. The only thing I will say is make sure you double and triple check your research, there are a lot of wrong names and dates. Also common family names that go down through the generations can also be tricky, so make sure to check everything thorough. I log onto Ancestry through my local library and then I write down or type up a MS Word document with all the verified names and dates. I then log on at home or on my laptop in the library, and add the new information. Ancestry.com is the only place within the last 2 years that I've been able to find all census re! cords and immigration records for my family. Doing this I've traced ba! ck to the 1600's on my fathers side.Good luck and I hope this helps!...Show more
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