How to find ancestors tutorial for beginners 2022 - start on family search & ancestry free

I was asked to do a video on how to find our ancestors, this is a detailed beginner's guide. I present several ways to get started finding our family/ancestors, to get your family tree going and do so for free.

[@BitsyCat]

My husband's family also descended from the Mayflower his family who is from Ulster, N.Y. also served under George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. It was all verified by the Ancestry website.

[@nextlifetimebrendan3940]

Tracking the grandchildren etc of the relatives of my ancestors for photos is one of my main goals

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Me too, I'm holding out that I'll find a cousin in Sicily that has a box of photos from 100+ years ago.

[@lightyagami3492]

This! I love finding old photos but even better is when you are informed that they have family heirlooms or a family bible!

[@sallybyrd3712]

I agree the Irish ancestors are really hard to locate and the Irish records are not good. A lot of Irish people emigrated to England and the British records are very good.

[@monkeynews8311]

I've been having the worst time on these sites. Got loads of names and dates etc but apparently they have zero records on any of my immediate family. I know both my grandparents dob and death dates where they lived their whole lives etc but literally nothing shows up on electoral registers, military records, birth and death certificates which I find strange since they both served in the military and were always registered to vote... My grandfather took me to vote for the first time when I was 18 shortly before his passing. I never really had the pleasure of learning about older generations of my family but would really like to know my roots :(

[@epicgenealogy8853]

You can contact me on facebook and I can try to help out facebook.com/groups/859863388161881

[@ricosuave1182]

man this gets even uglier here in south America (Peru) I am coming along way so far, I ve gone back 130 years to find my Croatian ancestor whatever I found online in all those web sites I had to also contrast them with what I personally found in churches, local municipalities and charities, some places are still open in these small towns, totally worthy this journey.

[@pucki4499]

Such a great video!! I looked for something like this because I've been using Family Search for a long time and now I am stuck. I wanted to see if Ancestry had more documments that would allow me to keep expanding my tree and thanks to this video, I realise it does. I'm from Argentina and my whole ancestors are from different parts of Italy. From my father's side I have reached 6 generations from different free pages. I am desperated, I need to continue. From my mother's, it's harder because I couldn't find any documment from Italy, I don't exactly know from which part they are from. I only have argentinian church records available in FS. Sadly, I will stay here, at least for now, because ancestry is extremely expensive for me because of the high cost of a dollar in exchange. I wanted to write my experience! Does anybody know; if I pay only a month of Ancestry, after it is over, would I be able to see my tree and its documments forever?

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Glad you like the video. Far as I know, you'd be able to pay again and access the tree. You can also get a free account, though you won't have as many records. I'm betting the church records on the Family search catalogue are better than ancestry. Another free site for Italian civil records is antenati.cultura.gov.it I covered that in another video.

[@pucki4499]

@@epicgenealogy8853 Hii! Thank you! Yes, I have been using that site too. Guess I will be expectant untill I can find something else. Your videos are very useful. xx

[@PelusitaFideos]

hola! también soy de argentina. Aparte de family search,que otras paginas gratis usaste? Yo pude armar casi todo mi árbol genealogico argentino, pero tengo dos ancestros que son los que comienzan el arbol y no hay nada previo a ellos,y son de francia y de italia también!

[@HawkThunder907]

I will search up my name and i would surely have a slave of the former Ottoman empire as .y ancestor. Im a serb.

[@BennettRussell]

I have watched few of your videos here on youtube. I have a question regarding couple of my half uncles of my dad. For both males, they lived with their sister and her husband in their early years. Later on, they both moved to live on a farm in Washington State. Either one never married. Which is stated on the census records. FamilySearch gives a note that they have no spouse or children. What suggestion could you suggest on how to handle persons in this case. Thank you.

[@Wafflesmmm]

I came from the German side and I always wonder if there’s any other relatives in Germany.

[@SuperCassieC]

Hey! I was able to find old New York City records online. Not sure if it’s a new feature since you made this video but you might want to look again.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

I knew some were available, but limited and you generally got a list of the info on them, but had to purchase the record. I''ll check it out tomorrow though, thanks.

[@JohnRenshawIII]

i found my maternal great great great grandad. and paternal i found loads of romanian great great grandparents

[@CallOfPavle]

I can't find any records to any of my ancestors, most of them ancestors are from Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro and when I search them up. Nothing

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that, I looked and ancestry doesn't have them, and the records are not on familysearch either. There are lots of parts of Europe where the records are not online yet and you have to travel to where you're researching. If they immigrated to the US, Canada, Australia etc, then you can get something.

[@oooceanman]

Man the names of my dad's family is very common and from a pretty rural area in turkey. Its super hard to find any info especially because I don't speak the language rip

[@maddiesophresh]

I am having trouble finding my grandfather. My dad said that he never knew him, so it’s this big mystery. I have a hit for a 3rd cousin on ancestry but the guy has not been on in months. All my other hits are 4th cousins. What would you suggest, I don’t know his name or anything about him?

[@epicgenealogy8853]

There's no chance he is on his birth record? Does he have info on his grandmother?

[@linodasilva6194]

I been having difficulty finding my relatives in Madeira Portugal. Records are just bad there. Plus online they expect to know the baptism date. Where’s the best place to find all that out?

[@bellelove7396]

Can we get anymore common than Smith? Omgawsh🤣

[@alexkerasidis]

He did not find it because it's common. It was the power of... Will XD

[@chenzenzo]

Miller.

[@JGM.86]

Jack

[@chrissystepford2263]

Campbell

[@GreenvasionOSC]

guy needs more subs

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Thanks, please share the channel

[@micahrosemusic]

Hey, thats pretty cool, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins are my 11th Great Grandparents

[@futeristicgaminghouse]

Hey I got to the year 1482 and I’m from Sicily is there a way to go any far back or there’s no way?

[@Hazebrano]

Less likely.. the records are almost nonexistent if they're not well known people

[@cygnusmir1627]

I live in Ireland and have never heard the name Rodgers

[@marilynduckett5793]

You heard of adkins

[@cygnusmir1627]

@@marilynduckett5793 I’ve heard of Atkins and Atkinson but I think those are English names

[@R_Smoothh]

I’ve been trying to figure out wether I’m Mexican or not because I’m Puerto Rican but look very Mexican, and so I did my own ancestry tree and from my dads side it went from Puerto Rico records to Mexico records and then I got lost from there, I can’t find the specific person but I know their name, their records are not found and it’s giving me the wrong information, what do I do?

[@scopeassimilate]

I’m trying to find my dads family because he committed suicide and I never got to meet him

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Sorry to hear that, I can help if you post names, dates and there your family is from.

[@zoe20176]

so sorry about that i hope you find them:(

[@chenzenzo]

Randazzo is a place in Sicily. Vincenzo (which is my name) he was named for his birth place.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

If you're referring to my zio in the video, no, he was born in Carini. I have my Randazzo line back 500 years and if one was a foundling and named for being from Randazzo, then it was much earlier than I have records for.

[@theshredderhalfbreedmohawk9617]

All my ancestors lied on all record s because they were Indians. So by the records my tree is extremely flawed

[@epicgenealogy8853]

That is certainly a challenge for sure.

[@theshredderhalfbreedmohawk9617]

@@epicgenealogy8853 yes it is especially when very rude people who work at ancestry thinks the records are right and I'm wrong like they know my family better then me?

[@theshredderhalfbreedmohawk9617]

@@epicgenealogy8853 ancestry accepts false information on record s so does family search

[@epicgenealogy8853]

@@theshredderhalfbreedmohawk9617 Sorry to hear that, I've not had any contact with anyone who works at ancestry though. Your issue is more frustrating than what i have, where there just aren't any records at all. I have a lot of family that for whatever reason, did not participate in the census so they appear to just disappear. To find a record that you knowing that the info is most likely incorrect sucks.

[@CallMeMicahT]

This guy is one charming bastard.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

You must be from NY

[@DustinLuttrell-n6z]

My ancestors were names glass and Woolley and Slavens curtsinger cutsinger

[@JeremiahS96]

I’ve been trying to find my granddad side of the family I have no name to start with only a navy photo of him.

[@imheel9727]

Do you have to take the dna test before doing this

[@epicgenealogy8853]

No you don't, I had 20k+ on my tree before I did it.

[@Lyle-Walters]

Such a great video!! I looked for something like this because I've been using Family Search for a long time and now I am stuck. I wanted to see if Ancestry had more documments that would allow me to keep expanding my tree and thanks to this video, I realise it does. I'm from Argentina and my whole ancestors are from different parts of Italy. From my father's side I have reached 6 generations from different free pages. I am desperated, I need to continue. From my mother's, it's harder because I couldn't find any documment from Italy, I don't exactly know from which part they are from. I only have argentinian church records available in FS. Sadly, I will stay here, at least for now, because ancestry is extremely expensive for me because of the high cost of a dollar in exchange. I wanted to write my experience! Does anybody know; if I pay only a month of Ancestry, after it is over, would I be able to see my tree and its documments forever?

[@epicgenealogy8853]

You should be able to see if you pay again, or if you set it up, and give someone else access to it, they may still be able to see everything. You could post for free on familysearch.org

[@gothemusic]

do you know what site that have Indonesia civil record?

[@ozgurkaynar-mv7kw]

Kaynar is really hard to be honest

[@Robbie1872]

I’m Scottish and so are both my parents & all grandparents so what your saying is I’m screwed to find records from far back?

[@epicgenealogy8853]

no, more so if looking for Irish records

[@bradymiclea1705]

Can someone help me, i can find a relative who lives in 1911 and the earliest record i could find of him was in 1950. I have been trying to find his parents. How do i find them??

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Post the names and where they lived. I'm epic genealogy on facebook, you can post the info there and i can help

[@Atagrl_13]

Sorry this video is difficult to follow. Your ancestry platform looks totally different than mine and could you possibly done someone in the US and how to find birth certificates

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Thanks for the feedback, I can do a video about US birth records.

[@propaganja7264]

​@@epicgenealogy8853yea please do because this isnt as easy for most americans especially people that dont look like you. Theres 72 years of census removed which makes it even more difficult not to mention the commonality of surnames like johnson,lawson,smith,manning,greene,black, ect

[@epicgenealogy8853]

@@propaganja7264 I'll get on this, but what did you mean by "this isnt as easy for most americans especially people that dont look like you"?

[@fionag8869]

I cant alk to anyone they r all dead

[@noahlamphere2626]

Is Lamphere a common last name?

[@johnbrooks8178]

Furthest I got back was my great grandparents on my maternal side.

[@bawlafayette5797]

Can you send the link to search our relatives? Thanks!

[@epicgenealogy8853]

You can use ancestry.com or familysearch.org which is free. Post questions here or facebook at facebook.com/groups/859863388161881

[@danniebrown4966]

My great grandmothers name was Felix cavaliere

[@danniebrown4966]

Is this Sicilian

[@AlbertSantisteve-Davies]

can you find you and your best freinds common ancestor

[@epicgenealogy8853]

you can, you need to have a lot of the tree already done, familysearch.org has a feature that can find relations between people on the tree

[@RayyanAhmedFuture]

This would be helpful if I wasn't Pakistani. If you don't get it. They did NOT do records when it comes to trying to find my Ancestors so the only way to find them is DNA which my dad is refusing to let me get-

[@epicgenealogy8853]

That sucks, there are a lot of cultures that did not keep written records. I'm guessing you're a minor, so you can do the DNA when you turn 18. it does depend though, as far as find close family, if family has also done the DNA and uploaded to ancestry or one of the other sites.

[@jesssandhu9432]

Are you Punjabi? I’ve gotten back to 20 generations, and many Punjabis do too. If your people were from that area then you can find records easily since they documented everything. I’m Pakistani Punjabi but I found them on Family Search. Search up “Punjabi/Pakistani records pandit,” the Hindus mostly kept them for everyone in India regardless of the religion (I’m Sikh).

[@trainhenry1959]

I just search my moms records do I can find the names and deaths

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Can you post more info, are you on ancestry or familysearch? I'm guessing you're looking for your mom's info, her parents etc?

[@kritirani1513]

Tum dispesion mein hai kya?

[@The_Historia7]

Why i cannot find my acestor i from malaysia

[@Haziqtheamazing]

same

[@shaadhashmi9645]

I wanna know who my paternal great grandfather is because he left his family for a war and does not have a record. my grandfathers name is nazakatullah hashmi and we are from india

[@shaadhashmi9645]

he was up around the 1940s

[@epicgenealogy8853]

I hear ya, but this is really new to me. I've never tried to find records from India. There is also the language barrier, but I can do a search and see if anything is online. Where in India is your family from?

[@jessicaquick6411]

how do Ifind american native dna

[@epicgenealogy8853]

If I understand the question, you could take a test and upload to a site like ancestry, that would show DNA connections with those who have also uploaded their DNA.

[@TocaBoca_Gal]

Hi! I need help. I have been trying to find my grandma but have not had any luck. Her name is Kathleen Gibbons/Palmieri. We are trying to find her mom and dad since she was raised by her grandma. She was born in the early 50’s and died in January 2013. How can I find her?

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Can you post some more info, such as where she was born/lived, grandma's name?

[@TocaBoca_Gal]

She lived in Agoura Hills, CA, but do not know where she was born. I know that she was born in April 1952 but do not know the grandma’s name. Maybe her last name was gibbons also?? Gibbons is my Grandma’s Maiden last name and Palmieri is her last name from marriage. I can try and ask my dad if he knows her grandma’s name.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

@@TocaBoca_Gal OK, I found a Kathleen G Palmieri living at 5737 Kanan Rd # 166, Agoura Hills in 1995, but birth date given is 3 Apr 1953.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

@@TocaBoca_Gal Dante N Palmieri Jr is your grandfather?

[@TocaBoca_Gal]

@@epicgenealogy8853 Yes! He’s my grandfather.

[@user-sb5wn7iq2b]

Is there a reason why I can't find any records of my ancestors? Most of them are from Serbia and I can't find anything about them. I've tried multiple different websites but unfortunately, the results were the same. I can't find anything even with this guy, Radomir Djordjevic (~1915). His family was rich, and I mean RICH. But still, I can any records of him or others.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Interesting, was he married 2x, 1st Zora Prkosovac, second wife Charlotte Ritter?

[@user-sb5wn7iq2b]

@@epicgenealogy8853 Unfortunately not. According to my grandmother, he married a girl named Ljubica, whom he had 4 daughters with. But Apparently, his father remarried after his mother died tho. He married a woman who had two sons, who she prioritized more. And therefore he got little of his father's inheritance, but it was still a very large sum. He later gave all the land he owned to other Serbian soldiers after the second world war.

[@epicgenealogy8853]

@@user-sb5wn7iq2b There is a death record for a Ljubica Djordjevic Zitlov born 12 March 1928-24 Feb 2005, father is Radomir Djordjevic, married to a Zora Prkosovac www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/615635191:60901?tid=&pid=&queryId=b345eac42fced705bf20e9a275bad67d&_phsrc=Kgb770&_phstart=successSource

[@epicgenealogy8853]

@@user-sb5wn7iq2b There is a record for a Radomir Djordjevic born 13 März 1915 in Donje. Record of a Radomir Djordjevic OCt 1919-Nov 1985. Is there any chance he is the one with an international patent?

[@user-sb5wn7iq2b]

@@epicgenealogy8853 That is totally possible that it could be him!

[@bier1921]

Heyyy, do you have tips, I have an unknown ancestor from central asia acording to DNA testing. I am around 2 percent. I am dutch, but my grandpa is a lot darker than most dutch people. I figured out with a little ape braining it would probably be my grandfathers, grandparents grandparent. That would be 100 percent, ofcourse it could be earlier or later in our line due that genetics can be more or less dominant for the next generation. HOW can I figure this out

[@garynorris4648]

Bufoon

[@justaskstu]

Thanks Marc. Nice job!

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Grazie cugino.