Where can i find info about my family?

[Chris]

I need to do a project on my family, My name is Christopher D Huntress, My dad is Glendon D Huntress , His dad is Glendon D Huntress SR, Can we atleast find immigration papers?

[Maxi]

Genealogy is about DEAD ancestors not living people and that is because living people have privacy rights and their records are not available to research unless/ until someone starts putting information like you have, then it is forever online and then liable for companies to collect and sell on, which they do as in phone/address data, electoral rolls and the mass of personal nformation people so easily give away on social media..........

All and any records you will find on living people ( and possibly some dead ones too) are in your own home and that is where you start http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm you would only start looking at passenger ship lists, once you know the name of the person you are looking for , their approx age, who they came with and which part of the world they came from.......... then you could look at Ellis Island, Castle Garden or one of many other ports ( and as you have not said I am assuming you are USA based)

[Ted Pack]

Either you misunderstood the assignment or your teacher is a fool. You may print this off for him/her, if you like. Tracing your family tree is like fishing. It takes skill and practice. Asking students who have never done it before to do it is like asking someone who has never fished before to head out into the mountains with a fly rod and come back with enough trout to feed 100 people.

If:

1) You are in the USA,
2) Most of your ancestors were here,
3) You are white,

Then an experienced genealogist could probably trace most of your ancestors back to 1850 or their arrival, whichever came first, in 100 - 300 hours. (Only back to 1870 if you are black, sadly.)

That is two and a half weeks of full-time work at a minimum, for an experienced person. Asking students to do it (unless that is your only assignment for the rest of the school year, and the school will pay for your census image subscription) is ridiculous.

I have two suggestions:

1) Call your grandparents and ask who their parents and grandparents were; names, birth, marriage and death dates and places. If you get both parents and all four grandparents from them, you'll have a 5-generation tree.

2) Lie.
Use the two biggest free genealogy sites around,

http://www.familysearch.org - The Mormons.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect

Find someone about the age of your great grandparents and claim them; then find someone who fits as their parents, then grandparents ... . Keep them moving west, if they move, not east. Make sure no one has a child when she is younger than 18 or older than 40. Have the husbands be 1 - 3 years older than the wives. That will make them seem normal. Your teacher will never check 30 kids' work.

If you look at RWWC, be careful; the ads at the top sometimes ask for a name and lead you astray, to a pay site. Also, even if you DO enter the surname in the right box, not all of the data there is accurate. And, don't look for yourself or your parents; look for someone born at least 100 years ago.

[Barry]

You could start off with Ancestry.com. I just poked your dad's name in and this popped up:

Maine, Marriages, 1892-1996â–¼
Birth, Marriage & Death


Name: Glendon D Huntress
Spouse: Jacqueline J Boutilier
Marriage: date - Maine, USA
Residence: city, ME
Residence: city, ME

Maine, Marriages, 1892-1996
Birth, Marriage & Death


Name: Glendon D Huntress
Spouse: Sandra C Shane
Marriage: date - Maine, USA

Maine, Marriages, 1892-1996
Birth, Marriage & Death




Name: Glendon D Huntress
Spouse: Doreen F Moynihan
Marriage: date - Maine, USA
Residence: city, ME

[Furious Unicorn]

Glendon D Huntress, "United States Public Records Index"
Name: Glendon D Huntress
Titles and Terms (Original): SR
Also Known As:Glendon Huntress
2nd Also Known As Namer Glendon Huntress
3rd Also Known As Name:
Residence Date: 13 Nov 2000
Residence Place: Bridgton, Maine, United States
Birth Date: 15 Jun 1935

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2QL5-GCP

1940 United States Federal Census about Glen Huntress
Name:Glen Huntress
Age:4
Estimated birth year:abt 1936
Gender:Male
Race:White
Birthplace:Maine
Marital Status:Single
Relation to Head of House:Son
Home in 1940:Cornish, York, Maine
Map of Home in 1940:View Map
Street:Main Street
Residence in 1935:Same House
Sheet Number:4B
Attended School or College:No
Highest Grade Completed:None
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
NameAge
Weston Huntress65 b Maine
Grace Huntress46 b Maine
Robert Huntress29
Lester Huntress11
Josephine Huntress7
Norman Huntress6
Glen Huntress4


Norman R.
Huntress Sr., 77
SOUTH PARIS -- Norman R. Huntress Sr., 77, of Bridgton, died on Monday, July 11, 2011, at the Maine Veterans Home after a short illness. He was born in Hiram on March 10, 1934, the son of Weston and Grace Sargent Huntress. He served in the U.S. Army from July 1956 to July 1958.
He married Jackie Boutilier on June 10, 1961. He was employed in previous years as a truck driver, then at Fryeburg Tree Nursery, Diamond National Wood Company and in recent years at J. R. Mains Company, Howell Laboratories and last of all, R. H. Reny's store in Bridgton. He is survived by his wife, Jackie Boutilier of Bridgton; sons, John and his wife Judy, Norman and his wife Carolyn and Mickey and his wife Pamela all of Bridgton, a daughter, Thelma Mitchell and her husband Dale of Gray; grandchildren, Jacob, Johanna, Mikkayla, Alexandrea, Kasey, Kristen and Hayley; and two brothers, Glenn of Bridgton and Lester of Standish. He was predeceased by a daughter, Paula Huntress Smith; four sisters, Ida, Emma, Mary and Josephine, and six brothers, George, John, Weston, Merle, Raymond and Robert.
Graveside services will be held on Friday, July 15, at 3 p.m., at Forest Hills Annex Cemetery in Bridgton. Family and friends may attend visitation on Thursday, evening from 6 to 8 p.m., at Raymond-Wentworth/Chandler Funeral Homes & Cremation Service, 8 Elm St., Bridgton. Online condolences may be shared with his family at http://www.chandlerfunerals.com.
Norman R.
Huntress Sr.


1900 United States Federal Census about Westen D Huntress
Name:Westen D Huntress
[Western D Huntress]
Age:25
Birth Date:Mar 1875
Birthplace:Maine
Home in 1900:Hiram, Oxford, Maine
Race:White
Gender:Male
Relation to Head of House:Son
Marital Status:Single
Father's Name:John Huntress
Father's Birthplace:Maine
Mother's name:Sabrine Huntress
Mother's Birthplace:Maine
Occupation:View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
NameAge
John Huntress61
Sabrine Huntress55
Westen D Huntress25
Emma J Huntress21
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1880 United States Federal Census about Weston B. Huntress
Name:Weston B. Huntress
Age:5
Birth Year:abt 1875
Birthplace:Maine
Home in 1880:Hiram, Oxford, Maine
Race:White
Gender:Male
Relation to Head of House:Son
Marital Status:Single
Father's Name:John L. Huntress
Father's Birthplace:Maine
Mother's name:Sabrina C. Huntress
Mother's Birthplace:Maine
Neighbors: View others on page
Cannot read/write:

Blind:

Deaf and Dumb:

Otherwise disabled:

Idiotic or insane:

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Household Members:
NameAge
John L. Huntress41
Sabrina C. Huntress35
Weston B. Huntress5
Emma J. Huntress1
Emma Huntress73
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