Can somebody tell me if I'm related to anybody famous or tell me a free website where it tells me my relatives?

[ashley]

Can somebody tell me if I'm related to anybody famous or tell me a free website where it tells me my relatives.My name is Ashley Marie Oneil (Ashley first) Marie middle) Oneil last). please tell me who im related too thks

[GrayPict]

The only way to determine who you are related is to trace you Genealogy. Even Ancestry could not tell you with the information you provided. Also it is strongly suggested that you complete name not be put on the internet, due to Identity theft.

[Maxi]

No.......... no one can tell you if you are or not related to anyone famous or give you a free website which will tell you................ there are lots of free websites and lots of trees online all about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

If you want to find out who your ancestors are then you need to put many long hours in of real research over many months or years but my radar is telling me you just want it quick, easy, free and to find you are related to young male film or music stars................. and that is not going to happen........... should you be interested in finding out who your real ancestors are and what they did and where they came from....but they may not be famous.......and I have to say in the majority of cases you will find no famous ancestors at all.......... a tip, your name means nothing, it tells genealogist nothing at all and is not how you research.

I think I am wasting my time but if not this is how you start, its free you will get back 3-5 generations and it will teach you how to research http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm

[Ted Pack]

If I told you that you and Tom Hanks were fourth cousins twice removed, would you believe me and tell all of your friends? Someone with a cruel sense of humor might do that, Ashley. Here is a real answer, but not what you wanted to hear:

The seven basic facts we genealogists use to identify people (by "identify" I mean tell which man named William Miller is which) are birth date and place, marriage date and place, death date and place, and spouse's name - which will be maiden name for women. Banks use birth date and place for security questions. They also use mother's or grandmother's maiden name. So, to prevent identity theft, we genealogists don't put details of living people on the Internet. Some of us crafty ones tell Facebook we were born April 1, too, and change our birth year every year so that we are forever 39, just like Jack Benny.

So, if a site like you wanted existed - where you enter your name and it shows you your family tree - it would be a disaster for normal people and a treasure trove for identity thieves.

Since it would have to have birth and marriage dates, it would show who was having sex before marriage, too, which some people don't want to broadcast. (If someone is married in June and has a child that November, chances are they were having sex in February.)

The biggest obstacle to the site of your dreams is the time it takes to do genealogical research. My standard estimate, for white people whose ancestors have been in the USA for a long time, is 100 - 300 hours to get back to 1850 on 75% of the lines. (only 1870 for black people, sadly.) I've done that for my children, my first cousins, and a couple of people I like, but I do genealogy the way normal people do crossword puzzles. There aren't a lot of people like me out there.