How to Begin Your Ancestry Search

To connect your family to that of those from around the world, you need to search through several regions, records and oral histories.

Depending on how many generations ago your family came to the United States will help to discover just where you should start.

Did your father or mother come to the United States from another country? Did your grandparents or great-grandparents? How many generations back did your family members come from another country to settle in the United States or Canada?

Also, remember that your entire family probably did not come over at the same time. Many families had one or two relatives that travelled to North America and settled here. After talking to their left behind relatives, they convinced them that life was great and that they too should come. Then, many more relatives may have come.

Your aunts, uncles, your grandparent’s siblings and so on could have travelled to North America at different times and that is information that you need.