ozzy

Has anyone any experience of tracking their family history?

There's loads of sites on the web offering access to billions of names, but I'd like some real-life experiences and recommendations first.

My Mothers side of the family are from Scotland, but my fathers are from the Czech Republic which might make things a bit more tricky.

I want to suprise them, so I need to be tactful and a bit covert when asking certain questions. If you could suggest what I need to know before starting that would be great.

Is it something you did yourself or did you find a website or company that did it for you?

I've tried a few searches and found sod all, so I'm a bit sceptical of subscribing to any of the family history websites.

Thanks,

Stefan

mj

try this http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CUL/cumbFHS/,
my gran is one of the founder members and secretary, if you contact her mention mike.

cheers,

mj

super_si

Ive got an Uncle In Canada who traced mine back a lot of years. Ill find out how he did this.

Found out im related to some interesting people

David Lock

Go to www.ffhs.org.uk for starters. This is the Federation of Family History Societies, the umbrella group for UK clubs and societies. Very informative site with loads of into leaflets and anorak stuff when you really get going. Coincidence as I am currently thinking about a project to design a user friendly CD (or more probably update someone else's) to provise a suitable format/template to prepare a family history and tree as I reckon that there is almost too much information out there which is off putting for the non-anorak who simply wants to record the basic stuff to start with. Happy researching. DL

GaryCat

One of the easiest ways is to go to google and do a search for genealogy and the surname you are interested in.

Amanda-Jane

The Mormon website if very good. That is the one that I have been using.

Family Search

Happy hunting!

AJ

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NOZZER

The Mormon web page amanda just said is the best one i know. They do loads of it in their church. My dads gone back 7 generations i think.
Ian

IWatkins

The missus is deeply into this, if you need any help Stefan just ask.

MarkO

My dad's been doing this for years. He's traced ours right back to 1060, or something. I've produced a web-based version which you can see at http://www.otway.info.

There's a few links to some useful genealogy sites on my site.