how to build a family tree?

[php111]

hey boys,

Has anyone builded a family tree before? This chit chat is anything goes legally, right? How would i build a family tree? I want to build it on both sides. I don't have parents either. Could it be done for free? What if i don't know any of my family members? Could i search for them and build it? Bye.

[GremlinSA]

Hmm .. if you got alot of time and patience this could be a nice (LONG) project..

A good place to start is
http://www.genealogy.com/
or..
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/

My grad father started ours 20 years ago and now i've been busy with it, currently have father-son relations that go back to 1700 and ansestors as far back as 1300...

Richard...

[php111]

Hmm .. if you got alot of time and patience this could be a nice (LONG) project..

A good place to start is
http://www.genealogy.com/
or..
http://www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/

My grad father started ours 20 years ago and now i've been busy with it, currently have father-son relations that go back to 1700 and ansestors as far back as 1300...

Richard...

cool thanks. Do you know how to buy one? Could you get me started? Is it free? I go back home this Saturday in EST so i won't have the internet. I notice your from UK thats why i said Eastern time in the USA.

[GremlinSA]

Most places offer limited info for free...

You can get some free Ansestory database applications for free from the net..

But if your looking for someone to trace the family for you it could cost quite a bit... It's better to try and locate all the info your self..

The local registary office could posibly help you trace your parents, and there parents. (Birth records)

BTW. I'm in South Africa, the family settled here in 1820, as part of the UK's resettelment policys of the time. So thats why the UK Geneology site...

Richard...

[php111]

Most places offer limited info for free...

You can get some free Ansestory database applications for free from the net..

But if your looking for someone to trace the family for you it could cost quite a bit... It's better to try and locate all the info your self..

The local registary office could posibly help you trace your parents, and there parents. (Birth records)

BTW. I'm in South Africa, the family settled here in 1820, as part of the UK's resettelment policys of the time. So thats why the UK Geneology site...

Richard...

But some of what you said helps but not a whole. I still need help with the whole process.

[cilu]

What kind of familly try are you talking about? The kind you can create at www.genebase.com?

[NoHero]

My father and I did. Well it took its time, but we got it: We went to my church of christening, and looked in my birth certificate where my father got christened. Then we looked in his church of christening where his father god christened and so forth. We got back to 1796. Very interesting though.

[Chris256]

A friend of the family works on his family tree as a hobby. From what I understand, there are some sort of repositories that keep some of this information on microfilm.

[GremlinSA]

A friend of the family works on his family tree as a hobby. From what I understand, there are some sort of repositories that keep some of this information on microfilm.
Ahh but alot of these old Microfilms are now been loaded into databases.

Alot of it is available on the net now... (if you know where to look.)

[HanneSThEGreaT]

Probably off topic...

My dad managed to trace our family surname (du Preez) quite far.

This is what we have..

du Preez, means "The man of the house of the meadows".

The surname exists for more than 900 years!

Several deviations to 'du Preez"
Des Prez
Des Pres
de Pre

More info.
The du Preez family originates from the region between Schelde and Somme rivers in Flanders. The earliest bearer of the surname was Lambert de Pre, born around 1050 and who was seneschal of Luik.

//Isn't the internet wonderful!

[GremlinSA]

Very interesting Hannes...

Here's what we got on the "Newcombe" Surname...
The English surname Newcombe is of nickname origin. In this instance the surname is derived from the Middle English "newe", Meaning "new", and the Old English "cumen" meaning "to come". Thus the surname was applied to "one who was a newcomer or stranger to the comminity."

Derivatives: Newcomb, Newcomea, Newcomen, Neucument, Neucum.

Heritage: The Newcomers were German Nomads who settled in a region in England, now known as Newcomer Vally, in about 800AD.

The earliest written reference to the surname, is a Alan le Neucument recorded in the Pipe Rolls of Lincolnshire in 1175, and a Richard Newecume is listed in the Pipe Rolls of Lincolnshire in 1195.

Blazon of Arms : Argent, a fesse embattled between two escallops in pale sable.
Crest : A demi-horse argent, gorged with a chaplet vert.
Motto : Neu comes ire recuso. (And I do not refuse to go as a companion)

Theres tons more.. but these snips give the main details, I even found the Crest and Coat of arms pics on the net...

At current my database on Newcombe's has over 2500 names in it... with the earliest birth (Hugh Newcombe) in 1153AD.

Like i said before ... Years of lookup and corespondance got me most of this info. It's still far from finished...

Richard...