How to feel Long Lost Relatives on Your family Tree

If you know the names of your lost relatives, the hunt will be fairly easy. If you do not know the name, you have a challenge. If you reside in the same town or even state that your relatives lived in, you must have a courthouse, archives, or some public construction that stores vital records. Look for death records first as they are the most recent and will also contain birth, marriage, and location.

Each state passes laws dictating when vital records of birth, death, marriage and separation are to be kept. The states in the eastern part of the United States have the earliest records. If you have the right surname, these records will help you find your ancestors.

Ask questions of every person available. You never know who might remember that lost relative. If you hunt records in the house of your older ancestors, you may find some names that sound well-known or with the right date and name and they might be lost ancestors.

If you know the religion your ancestors believed, churches have determined recorded birth, marriage and death records and these are normally older than legal records.

If you have a computer, the quickest way to find your relatives is to type in a surname on Google. First I went to white pages and then I put my maternal surname in with no more information. Over one hundred results popped up with addresses, phone numbers and associated persons.

However attractive this was, the site only showed ten names. Then the results switched to pay for view. At least that was ten potential names.

I tried an additional one web address and found three of the wanted surnames in the state I entered. At&T, however, in case,granted a disclaimer saying that they did not furnish that information. I guess, privacy laws have ruined this way of tracing ancestors.

I tried finding potential cousins in addresses.com using a first first and the surname. Three results showed with phone numbers, but they were far from home. I tried an additional one first first and four results showed. One is much closer to where he was born and where he lived when his father passed.

I may call that number. His father was born in 1861 and the 1930 census showed that he and his wife were married twenty-three years. That last of his three sons listed in the obituary of his dad, could have been born around 1920. It is risky calling older folks out of the blue.

Then, I typed in a known cousin and the state where he lived when we were researching the family together. He was not found in the state I used, but fourteen results were found in the nation. He is now eighty-six years old and living in Reno, Nevada. To get his phone amount and address, I have to pay.

Mylife.com offers a free sign-up to find your family and phone number. The free facts is very limited. I got out of there fast. You can buy a membership. It depends on how eager you are to find someone.

You can type a name+genealogy in quotes on Google and see what comes up. Maybe, some one has already put your family tree online. Use caution as mistakes are admittedly duplicated using these trees. You may not have the right surname.

Some of our ancestors chose to turn their names and that does pose a huge problem. Use "cluster genealogy" in this case. Get every person in each family in order and you may find the missing family members.

As with all genealogy, keep an open mind, investigate any and every lead and never give up. Maybe, your unknown family members want to find you as well.

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