Educated people are often interested in questions of their origin. So I want to find a connection between myself and some noble aristocrats or just famous people - writers, musicians, artists. But how do you understand the intricacies of the family tree?
Instructions
Step 1
Talk to family members. It is only natural that your parents, grandparents, and if you are lucky, great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers know their ancestors better than you. So contact your relatives with questions. Of course, it is not very likely that you will recognize your whole family this way before Adam and Eve, Homo sapiens, or aliens-aliens (emphasize the necessary), but you can go deeper a few generations ago. By the way, practice shows that women know their pedigree better, so contact your grandmother, maybe she knows a lot about grandfather's relatives.
Step 2
Remember your roots. If you know that your ancestors lived in a particular village or city, and you know their surname and the surname of their next of kin, then this can be a very good help on the way to your goal. You can rummage through the World Wide Web and look for any information on these settlements. If we are talking about villages-villages and you managed to find your home, then, quite possibly, on the same website or through some links it will be possible to reach the inhabitants of this village-village. After all, the censuses took place in tsarist times. So if the surname of your ancestors is familiar to you (it does not always coincide with yours) and you find this surname in the population census of a particular settlement where your ancestors lived, then you can congratulate yourself. You probably found some roots of your family tree, and now you just need to build a bridge between them and yourself.
Step 3
Take a pilgrimage to your homeland. Perhaps one of your distant relatives lives somewhere in those distant or close villages, villages. There is a chance that with the help of them you can find the lost links of the family tree, and its picture will be even clearer.
Step 4
Use the archives. If you know that your ancestors are not from a small village with three streets and two surnames for the whole village, but from a large city, then turn to archival services. They will provide you with information, of course, for a certain fee, but the main thing would be desire, and there will always be opportunities.
Step 5
Contact the professionals. If you do not have time to engage in travel, inquiries, trips to the archive, but you have a desire and material opportunities, then you should turn to people who are professionally involved in building genealogical trees. On the world wide web, you can find enough agencies that deal with this issue. They will do all the work for you, although it's not so cheap. However, you have a choice.
