Need your help (Family Tree)

BoozyBabe

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
Wasn't sure where to put it.

Simply put:- I've decided to attempt to record my family tree.
I hope to give it to my father as a Christmas present as he's not really a materialistic person. He'd think the world of this.

Problem is:- I've no idea where to start, not a clue..........:(
Do we have an online national archive or anything, where I can see all births / deaths / marriages etc??????

Has anyone else ever done this?
Any tips?
I've a large family, lots of aunts, uncles, cousins.
Should I include these? (Part of me says yes, as it'd be very interesting to see far out relations you didn't know of, & how exactly you're related to them, but the other part says no as it'd be impossibly to manage & diagram.

How many generations is the norm to go back (if there's such a thing as norm)

How would you diagram such a thing?

I'm completely lost, but it's something I'd LOVE to do.

All help appreciated.
Thanks,
BB

gucci

i started doin such a ting a while back but it went on the back burner again, your best bet is to tackle some of your older relatives( grannies,grand dads, ) and get as much info as they can give you,then move over to some of your cousins grandparents and try piece together and cross refernce it,its alot of "work"but interesting.and basically the reason i never got finished was i didnt know where to draw the line.....guess im not much help then!

Miss Fluff

Here you go
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/frame_1024.cfm

Terry

boozybabe, this thread in the History/ Heritage forum might be of some help to you.

i'll leave this here for a couple of days in case anyone else can help.

monkeyfudge

I'm troubled by family trees.

The thing is we have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. So if we drew a family tree going back 10 generations, we would have to make space for a top line of 1024 ancestors. At 30 generations we would expect to see a line of over a billion ancestors. If we tried to research our family back 40 generations (only about 1000 years) we'd be searching for the names of vastly more people than have ever lived. This is impossible, of course, but everyone has two parents, so what exactly is wrong here?

netwhizkid

monkeyfudge wrote:

This is impossible, of course, but everyone has two parents, so what exactly is wrong here?

All relations don't have kids and thus their lineage dies off, also sometimes men can have children with more than one woman thus maybe giving more to annoy the old brain.

John Mason

you can also try genesunited.com. The national records are kept at Joyce House in Lombard, but the staff there are rather unhelpful and appear to walk and move at a snails pace and you have to pay for any copy documents but this is where you will find all documents for births, marriages and deaths. you can also try the local church as they will have records of baptisms and marriages

Terry

take a look at wikipedia.
i found some interesting things regarding my name.

Gordon

netwhizkid wrote:

All relations don't have kids and thus their lineage dies off, also sometimes men can have children with more than one woman thus maybe giving more to annoy the old brain.

This is why you are a MILLIONAIRE!! You got da skillz homeboyee.

Trinity

Miss Fluff wrote:

Here you go
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/frame_1024.cfm

Had a look at that before - they charge 45 euro for a successful search of birth records but only refund 20 euro if your search is unsuccessful :eek:

Its like gambling 25 euro a go!! LOL

Merrick

julep wrote:

take a look at wikipedia.
i found some interesting things regarding my name.

Cool, the only thing I got from my name was an airport. It's not on irishgeneology either, and is generally impossible to find. *sigh*

Dave!

I'd love to be able to do this, unfortunately my grandparents are all dead though My mother was kinda helpful, though, so I got back as far as my great-grandparents, and have some information about their jobs, etc.

Yeah it's not alot, but hopefully I'll get further in the future. Gotta go to Glasnevin cemetary actually, to get their dates of birth!

ShiverinEskimo

monkeyfudge wrote:

I'm troubled by family trees.

The thing is we have two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. So if we drew a family tree going back 10 generations, we would have to make space for a top line of 1024 ancestors. At 30 generations we would expect to see a line of over a billion ancestors. If we tried to research our family back 40 generations (only about 1000 years) we'd be searching for the names of vastly more people than have ever lived. This is impossible, of course, but everyone has two parents, so what exactly is wrong here?

Inbreeding my friend. Where you and your cousin/sister join together and make sweet music therefore tying a knot half wy down your family tree.

monkeyfudge

netwhizkid wrote:

All relations don't have kids and thus their lineage dies off, also sometimes men can have children with more than one woman thus maybe giving more to annoy the old brain.

But each set of my grandparents had to have had at least one kid each to make my parents and in turn make me. And my grandparents parents needed to have at least one kid each.

It can't all be down to inbreeding either.

Terry

monkeyfudge wrote:

But each set of my grandparents had to have had at least one kid each to make my parents and in turn make me. And my grandparents parents needed to have at least one kid each.

It can't all be down to inbreeding either.

i beg to differ.
earlier today, while looking into my family history, i came across this.
it's basically a history of my family name. it also contains this:

More of the specific families included in this work are:

<snip>
Rowley, O'Finan,<snip>

the highlighted one is my mothers family name.

i'm a god damned inbred red neck hick.

ircoha

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