answers1: If your grandparents are alive, call and ask them who their
parents and grandparents were. That will give you five generations.
That should be enough for any project. <br>
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You are still in high school. Your parents were (probably) 20 - 40
when they had you, and theirs were 20 - 40 when they had them. <br>
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So, assuming you are 16, <br>
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You were born 1993 <br>
Your parents 1953 - 1973 <br>
Your grandparents 1913 - 1953. <br>
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Those are the averages; your parents could be just 16 years older than
you, and your grandparents just 32 years older. Your father could be
60 years older than you, and your grandfather 120 years. Those are
extremes that are physically possible but unlikely. <br>
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Except for the dead people on the Social Security Death Index, most of
the people on the genealogy sites were born before 1900. So, chances
are you won't find anyone you know on any of the genealogy sites. <br>
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African-Americans are harder because <br>
1) The white record keepers didn't care as much about them;
record-keeping was sloppy. <br>
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2) Most of them have just English surnames, so it is hard to tell all
those men anmed "John Robinson" apart. (White people usually have
Irish, Scots, German and English, if they've been in the USA for more
than 3 - 4 generations). (White people in England have the same
problem; so do Mexicans, only it is page after page of "Juan Garcia".)
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3) You dead end with people alive in 1870, thanks to slavery. <br>
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4) Before the 1950's a tragic number of them were poorly educated;
enough so that they didn't spell all that consistently. (White people
in West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky have the same problem.) <br>
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If you wanted to spend a good year, 2 - 3 hours a night, 3 - 4 nights
a week, you could complete a family tree back to 1870, probably,
although some branches would be shorter than others. If you don't,
save your mother's money. You can't learn to be a genealogist in the
five days until Friday.
answers2: Rootsweb.com is free. Also, try googling the names.
answers3: This should help! <br>
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http://www.ehow.com/how_5524859_start-genealogy-research.html
answers4: I hope that you have downloaded one of the many free
pedigree charts that are available on line and <br>
that you have completed the first three generations. You, your
parents and your Grandparents. <br>
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Familyhistory.com or LDSFamily.com are excellent site, free and where
most of the basic information on Ancestry.com comes from. <br>
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Good Luck
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