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.

[nextlifetimebrendan]

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

[ricosuave]

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.

[sallybyrd]

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.

[pucki]

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?

[Johncofi]

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

[monkeynews]

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 :(

[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.

[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.

[micahrosemusic]

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

[johnbrooks]

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

[linodasilva]

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?

[chenzenzo]

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

[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?

[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

[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

[gothemusic]

do you know what site that have Indonesia civil record?

[DustinLuttrell-nz]

My ancestors were names glass and Woolley and Slavens curtsinger cutsinger

[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?

[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?