Where could you go to find information about your genealogy?

Question:

Where could you go to find information about your genealogy?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There is no single source or internet site where you can go an find information about your genealogy--at least not without doing some groundwork.

Begin with yourself.
Who is your father? mother? (maiden names?)
Who are your grandparents? great-grandparents? great-great grandparents? etc.?
Birth dates? Marriage dates? Death dates?
As far back as you can go just based on your own knowledge.

It helps to write things down. There is a chart that family researchers use called a pedigree chart. Fill out a pedigree chart--again as much as you can based on your own knowledge.

Once you do this, how do you start finding out what you do not already know? Unfortunately, there is no single answer to this. It all depends on the details of what you know.

Some key questions at every step: Where and When? For example: Where were your grand-parents married? When? The specific answers to these types of questions will determine where the best place to go for further information.

If you can identify (great?) grandparents who were married in the United States prior to 1930, you can look them up in the Federal Census.

If you know the state and county in which they were married, sometimes (not always) the marriage record will identify the parents of the bride and groom.

Again everything depends on the specifics of your individual ancestors and the quality of record keeping in the time and place where they lived.