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Ways to find out my family tree other than through ancestry.org type of sites? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by Mothra@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just out of curiosity. I don't have a real need for this.

So I've been trying to find info on my great-grandparents but after snooping around in ancestry.com and familysearch.com I realise there are no records for any of my parents, grandparents or great grandparents online. At least not on those sites.

And so I'm here wondering, what happened with those records? Anyone had any luck searching elsewhere? I've tried googling the names and nothing comes up either. Hooray for privacy I guess?

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My family tree has Latin American, Spanish and Italian roots. The Italian part before emigration is easy, but anybody else is invisible

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's tricky - I have Italian DNA matches (although they go back to the late Bronze Age) and my cousin married an Italian woman, so have had a nose around some Italian family trees and they seem to have solid records. I don't know about Spanish or South American records.

Going by this discussion (warning: it's on The Bad Place) (see also this discussion), there are good Spanish records but you'd need to talk to someone with expertise on where to look for the specific records you need. It may be worth tracking down Spanish language genealogy sites or try general ones and see who you can find - I have great luck with RootsChat who have a Europe board on their forum (although I was mainly after British help).

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's not Spain but Argentina which is absolute chaos. I'm 99% confident the records are still on paper and getting chewed by rats in some moldy basement. It's OK.