I just finished reading The Red Tent (great book by the way.) And now I really want an excellent family tree that starts with Laban and all of his wives. It would be ideal if it ended with all of the great grandsons of Laban, like all of the children of Reuben and Simeon and Joseph and everything. Please help!

Except for what you see in the Bible, you won't find anything else.

There are some people who claim to trace their ancestry back to Adam and Eve or some Biblical person, but they don't meet documentation standards of professional genealogist. There just aren't any records that go back that far. A lot was oral tradition that the writers put in the Bible. Any documentation would have been destroyed over the years.

I have seen trees claiming to trace the British Royal family back to David's royal line but it is based on speculation.

You have to understand people write historical novels which are not the same thing as history books and in them there are a lot of speculation to make the story interesting.

I have family members in the Battambang area I lost touch with when I escaped to Thailand 30 years ago. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas of resources to make this task easier? Are there any sources I can use between now and this fall to get any information before my trip? Thank you.

it is not easy in Cambodia to find people, cos you know the government cant control thier own population or static, i dont know what to say in english, cos i am not good at it, i am from Cambodia.

the search engine or Red cross (cos of corruption) cant help you i bet. 30 year of losing toch it is really hard to find.
the way you can do is you come here, advertise their name in Local Newspaper, their previous name, job, …….
and another way is you come to Battambang go down to that district and ask the govenor.
which distric they lived? cos actually i come from Battambang also.

want any help mail me ra_jerm@yahoo.com

What is the best genealogical resource available? It DOES NOT have to be a free site/resource. The Mormon Family Search site has only limited information. I would like it to have as much information as possible such as census, marriage, death, military, criminal, baptismal, foreign, medical, immigration, naturalization or as many other records as possible.

Not only does the Mormon site have limited information, it is also erroneous in some cases. Try going to ancestry.com or rootsweb.com. Both have family boards, I believe. There, members of the same family from across the country post their inquiries, and their own information, which can be accessed by other family members. I personally got tons of information dating back about three centuries about my father’s family from one communication posted by a family member who I didn’t even know. Good luck with your search.

My husbands parents are divorced and re-married. I would like to do a family tree and not sure how to handle that. Where do I insert them so that it makes sense? And step sister?
Also, he has an older half brother that was adopted by his father, so is that put under sibling like normal?
I don't plan on doing this on any computer program. I am filling out an art piece.

What are commonly referred to as step parents are actually multiple spouses of the same person. How it is represented (or IF it is represented) depends on what kind of tree you have.

If it is an ancestor tree, then the "step-parents" are not included at all because there is no relationship to the person at the bottom of the tree. Only direct blood relatives are included.

If it were a descendant tree, then depending on whether the source of the tree was on your husband's father side or mother's side makes a difference. If the descendant tree stared with an ancestor on your husband's father's side, then your husband's father is shown with two wives. The children he has with each wife is shown descending from the wife. Note that here, the second husband of his mother is not shows because they have no relation to the decendancy on the father's side.

Likewise, if the decendant tree was on your husband's mother's side, then his mother would show two spouses, and children from each spouse would be shown decending from the appropriate spouse. In this case, his father's second wife would not appear in the tree.

Remember, a descendant tree shows descendants (working past to present) from a single individual from the past and only their descendants and the descendant's spouses to show parentage. An ancestor tree starts with a person and works backwards in time only showing direct blood ancestors and their spouse related to the line.

Aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. are only shown on descendant trees. Also, your husband only has one ancestor tree starting with him. BUT, can be part of multiple descendant trees that end with him. Two (one for each parent), four (one for each grandparent), eight (one for each great grandparent), etc.

I want to see who I am related to. But everysite I go into doesnt do what I want it to. All I want to do is type in my great grandfathers name and be able to see who his father is and his father and so on…

ansecorty.com

And not easily transferrable. Cost isn't a factor, I just want a program that will do a supreme job of organizing and displaying.

Serious geneaology only, not freebie stuff.
Thanks for any tips!

I use Generations for my tree and custodian 3 for keeping my index's.

What are the ways to find a royal connection in a family tree?

Trace back your family tree one generation at a time and see if you connect. Be sure to document any and all sources. That is the only way to do it with accuracy. You can not just pick a person arbitrarily in history (royal or not) and know that you are connected without doing the proper research to get there.

Is there a database website which I can find out my family tree straight away in the UK?

Well you could try either genesreunited.co.uk or ancestry.co.uk.

What is the best site to post a genealogy question re my Great uncle Josef (Jozsef) Kiraly born Hungary or Romania around 1900
Thanks
sam

Genforum
http://genforum.genealogy.com/

and Ancestry
http://boards.ancestry.com/

both have query boards devoted to regions, and to surnames. GenForum tends to have a few big ones and Ancestry lots of little ones; where Clark and Clarke might be served by the same board on GenForum, they would be two separate ones on Ancestry. (I'm using "Clark" as an example; they may be separated on GF as well.)

You could try the country boards, the county boards if he came to the USA and died here, and the surname boards.

I am looking for a way to organise all the information I have about relatives but would also look for more information about my ancestors. I have seen a few family tree maker software packages but would like opinions on which is best.
So far, I am leaning towards Family Tree Maker 2006 which comes with all sorts of records on disc.

Family Tree Maker 2006 is one of, if not the best i suppose you could call it the grandaddy of family tree software, i use 2005 at the moment but i am considering upgrading as 2006 has many improvements, best prices i have seen have been on Ebay. hope this helps