Matt Tiry: http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.allsup/mb.ashxis devoted to the surname. It has Threads: 38 - Messages: 126You might try Allsop, too. I'd be willing to bet large sums at long odds that some of your ancestors got recorded that way, by choice or by error.
Porfirio Cahall: step one.. please understand that it is not necessarily true that all ALSUPS must be from one family or ancestor. Many new researchers wind up being completely overwhelmed by attempts to find all persons with their name, hoping to stumble onto 'matches' or connections. Absolutely unneeded, if you start with the basic foundation... which is, start with you and work back. The most obvious is connect you to your parents, and make a list of dad, mom and your siblings. This is called a family group sheet. On there, you will make note of dad's parents and mom's parents (using maiden names for the women) .. to link to the next family group sheet, for your grandparents. You'll have a fgs shee! t for each couple and their children, thus making record of who you KNOW to be your relatives. Learn from the get-go to USE DOCUMENTATION. Everyone laughs at this idea when they start.. until they are surprised to find that they thought grandma was such and such an age, only to learn that she really was 5 yrs older than grandpa and kept it secret all those years. The accuracy of your facts is the difference between success and failing. Example.. you thought she was born in 1932, but when you learn it really was 1926, you'll know that she WILL be listed on the 1930 census. Or, save yourself (or others) months of searching for a birth record in Texas, only to find out that she REALLY was born in Oklahoma and moved to Dallas when she was 6 months old. Its a basic rule that will hold true in all your research, and you are ahead of the game by starting out. Normally, info on living persons will not be online, so you need to work from home records to begin with. YOU can order y! our birth certificate if you need it... you just don't want to! have it online where it can be misused. Nor is it necessary at all to post such details online, in order to connect with other relatives. Once you work back to where you know YOUR gr gr grandfather is John Alsup of Montana, then you can post that all day long. Each generation back, you increase the odds of finding the right persons, who ARE your relatives, and have valid info. You will immediately know that your goal is the Alsup group from Georgia..not the ones from Maine. You will find, as you go, what family traditions are backed by historical records, or those that are just embellished stories passed down. Trust me, there are lots of those. Any experienced researcher will also advise you to STAY CLEAR of generic sites that tell you the Alsups were big landowners in ancient times in Cornwall, then sell you keychains with your family crest. You may find that YOUR line actually came from Ireland or . Or... 6 generations back, grandma was adopted, and her real name was Jon! es to begin with. Once you have some real names, dates and places, NOW stop by www.rootsweb.com and see what might be posted. USE that info carefully.. not everyone bothers to verify their own work, and could care less if it costs someone else time and effort hunting the wrong line. There is also an excellent guide to starting research there on the front page, with much more detail than me. Another location is www.genforum.com, that has sections for different surnames. This is where you'll find (again) that you need to know YOUR line, in order to see who is/ isn't part of your family. Oh, by the way..everyone wants free sites. There are thousands of them, check out www.cyndislist.com for a huge collection of resources. On the other hand.. any hobby costs something, so don't expect it to be all free. Many people are more than happy to do lookups for you.. on the other hand, some people confuse a lookup with expecting others to research their whole family for them. good luck,! and hope to see you here often....Show more
Doreatha Kjellsen: Y! es, you need to give more information. Not everyone with the same surname shares ancestors. This is an All English Speaking Board and people on it are from the U. S., U.K., Canada, Australia and NewZealand.
Joel Feagler: Where did / do the Allsup family live, you would need to give much more information if you would like some help with your question.Hope this helps.
Phillip Modafferi: Exact Search Results - Historical Recordshttp://www.ancestry.com/Census Records 4,121 Birth, Marriage, & Death Records 5,083 Military Records 461 Immigration & Naturalization Records 54 Directories & Membership Lists 9,122 Court, Land, Probate Records 72 Reference & Finding Aids 29 Exact Search Results - Family Trees1,533 OneWorldTree 1,143 Public Member Trees 140 Personal Member Trees 4,402 Ancestry World Tree entries for Allsup Name History and Origin for AllsupEnglish: variant spelling of AlsopAlsopEnglish: habitational name from Alsop in Derbyshire, named with ! the genitive of the Old English personal name Ælle + Old English hop ‘enclosed valley’. The best way I know for you to learn about your roots is to: Build your family tree on line.You can use a paid site like:http://www.ancestry.com/OR You can do this for free on: http://www.tribalpages.com/Start with yourself, and then attach living family members.Find out all you can about you family from living members, then attach it to your tree.Now it is time to look for historical records and attach the info to your tree: It is ALL about census records, and other historical records! You might get lucky and others may have done some work on your family tree. Google family members names i.e. "Mary Smith" + "family tree" Free sites:http://www.searchforancestors.com/ http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=27399&o_lid=27...http://www.usgenweb.com/ http://www.census.gov/http://www.rootsweb.com/ http://www.ukgenweb.com/ http://www.archives.gov/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.acc! essgenealogy.com/ http://www.cyndislist.com/http://www.findagrave.com/G! enealogy message board:http://www.bbc.co.uk/messageboards/newguide/?board... http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ab... http://boards.ancestry.com/ http://www.gensource.com/common/search.cfm http://messages.yahoo.com/yahoo/Family___Home/Gene... http://genforum.genealogy.com/ http://www.genealogyforum.com/messages/ http://www.progenealogists.com/messageboards.htm http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/boards.php?... http://boards.rootsweb.com/ECT.The time may come when you want more information than you can find for free. When this happens you can back up your "tribalpage" tree to your computer on a "GEDCOM" fileyou can then go to (I think it is the best subscription site)http://www.ancestry.com/Upload your "GEDCOM" fileand start to work!You might need to make a few adjustments to your tree to make it look better....Show more
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