You dont say what your location is so I dont know what kind of hints to give you. If you are in the United States you can start where ever you think they had homes. Go to those local libraries for local history books, newspapers, church and cemetery listings, etc. Go to the courthouse in your local county and check marriage records. Some counties will let you see birth and death records and some wont. You can check out land deeds, estate wills, probated wills, land grants, taxes etc all that information is open. If you still dont know where to start or hit a block email me at bgmsanders@aol.com and I will see if I can help. Barbara
First of all I am very new at this so please hang in there with me! I am looking for any children of my grandfather's brother. His name was Jean Baptiste Robinson. He was last heard of in the early 1900s.....1914. He moved to EmbrunRussell area and then he could have gone up towards the Niagara region with his family. I know him and his wife had children because they (children) were baptised at the Catholic Church in Embrun, Ontario. Any help location their last location (where they are burried) would be greatly appriciated. Many thanks.
After importing a GEDCOM, no relationships are showing. The import was fine, but for example, my father and mother, when you right click and select Relationship, say they are not related. Is there a way to correct this?
Try downloading Family Tree Builder here and importing the gedcom into it. Do the relationships show now? If yes, you can either publish the tree to your family site or upload a gedcom directly to the site.
I'm a new member...just created my site last night. When I went through to see a list of the new members my name is not in there. Do you have to have a picture to be listed?
Also...I invited my step-mother to view my site. She has not visited it yet but...on her profile as a member it shows a man's picture. Does she have to correct this or can I? I have her listed in my family tree with the correct generic picture.
No need to have a photo to be listed in the member’s center.. were you able to find yourself in the end?
Regarding the gender for a person in their profile, each member can enter his or her profile and change the gender themselves by clicking Edit My Profile.
I have no information on my real father and nobody in my family including my mother will not tell me who he is, leading me to believe that either (a) I know him, or (b) possibly a family member. How do I go about finding him? My email is animemommy@hotmail.com if you have info. Thank you.
Yes and no. It depends on how determined you are. My first suggestion would be to find high school yearbooks and try to find some of the people who were in your mothers class. Go talk to them about who your mom was interested in or who she hooked up with. High school friends often remember what our family members would like to forget. Do you have a copy of your birth certificate? Does it have your fathers name on it? If your family attends a church in the area talk to some of the older members. There are just so many things I could tell you to try but without more information I can point you in a certain way. If you would like to talk or see if I could help you email me at bgmsanders@aol.com. Just a FYI - make sure that you are ready to find this information. It could be that your dad does not know he is your dad. Or like you said it could be someone you already know. Or you could be a child who was conceived by rape. There is alot of information out there that we can find but you have to be ready for the unexpected also. Barbara
Is there a way to import other family trees into your own? For example, I see that there are matches for my family tree that I'm working on and they actually have even more detail than I do on certain family members. They also have additional family members in their tree that I was unaware of. I would like to just import their tree details into my own without having to manually do it. Is there a way to do this?
