Ancestry Search

My grandfather was very interested in finding out this information, so I continued what was a dead end search

Last month I restarted my ancestry search following my father’s family from Italy.

My grandfather was very interested in finding out this information, so I continued what was a dead end search.

Amazingly, five months after I began the whole ancestry search I finally found the information on my great grandfather that I was looking for.

Since I found out so much information on my father’s family, my mother decided that she wanted an ancestry search done on her family as well.

My mother’s family is not very interesting at first glance.

Basically, they seem like a bunch of hillbillies that never quite made it in life.

We love them beyond belief, and they are the nicest people alive, but I didn’t think an ancestry search would be interesting whatsoever.

I figured that three or four generations back came from England, and that was the end of it.

I began my ancestry search by using my great grandparent’s names.

I was able to search census records and found my great grandfather’s parents, so just continued up the lineage of the males.

I had known that my great grandmother was originally from Missouri, but little did I know that an ancestry search would uncover that three generations before her actually lived in Missouri.

One of these men actually was contacted by a renowned historian to follow his family history in the West.

After much searching through our lineage, census records kept turning up that our family was born in the United States.

After finally getting back to the year 1710, I thought that was the end of my ancestry search as I had hit another roadblock.

I did another online search and found a whole website dedicated to those that share the last name, and found much more information regarding where our first ancestors came from.

It turns out that my mother’s family dates all the way back to the third ship sailing to the United States from England.

So much for her family not being interesting! We are ancestors of two of the first three hundred people to ever live in the United States!

During this search, I was also able to find out occupations, cities of dwelling and sibling names all through U.S. census data.

I used a combination of websites including ancestry.com and familydatasearch.org, but there are several options available for doing an ancestry search.

These census records are also available for searching at family history libraries, and most major cities have several within a few hours of them.

I am so glad I did this ancestry search, even though I though it would be quite boring and uneventful.

It turns out just never know what your family history holds.


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