Venting ancestors...or lack thereof...

[Life_and_Death]

god it hurts having nothing........and it's worse when it feels like its being rubbed in your face..

try to google about some lgbt thing "go find your own ancestors!!!"
run across it in groups of my spiritual groups "connect with your ancestors"

I WOULD IF I COULD BUT I CANT!!!!!
theres me, myself, and i.
i know absolutely nothing about "my heritage" and i never will.
not all of us have healthy families that talk

"oh just get one of those dna tests"
you mean those ones ill probably never trust as being 100% accurate so there will always be doubt anyway, rendering it pointless?


thats all...... i was/am just feeling alone and wanted to get it out......

 

[timf]

Sometimes you can get a copy of your birth certificate from the county were you were born. It may have the birth dates and locations of where your parents were born. Sometimes it is difficult to get a birth certificate from a county for someone else, but these are supposed to be public records so sometimes you can. Once you have your grandparents names, birth dates, and locations you may be able to find a branch of yours that overlaps someone else. If you are lucky they have done a lot of research and you can profit from they work they have already done.

If you have an unusual name it is a lot easier to research than if you are "John Doe". A guy at a county library was able to help me and pointed me to ways to search old newspaper items as well. You can run into dead ends on some branches, but for the ones you are able to follow, it can be interesting to learn ore about the times these people lived in Sometimes you discover people than made a mess of their lives which can leave you sad.

 

[Life_and_Death]

Sometimes you can get a copy of your birth certificate from the county were you were born.

this is my issue. i know that going 2 generations back (as far as im aware) and its here.
this is the issue with being your "typical white girl".

If you have an unusual name it is a lot easier to research than if you are "John Doe

my dads side has a generic name, my mothers side not so much. i could look into it after i move back home