Drawing up a family tree became a fashionable hobby of the last time. Very many try to learn history some kind of, origin of a surname, names of far ancestors. It is valuable to future generations which can finally lose communication with own past.
Instruction
1. To learn history some kind of, communicate to the most senior relatives. It can be grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, both in the area of mother, and on the father. Ask at them that they remember own ancestors. Whether they know their names, surnames, nicknames. How many they had spouses how many gave birth to children. Whom were by profession. Write down all data in a notebook. They will be very valuable to further search.
2. Having obtained all necessary information from relatives, go to the Internet. On such portals as http://www.familytree.narod.ru/ and http://www.gendrevo.ru/, it is possible to learn absolutely free of charge history of the surname and also to find distant relatives.
3. Do not use at all services of resources which ask to send SMS for registration on the website. Most often it is swindlers who will just withdraw money from the account of the mobile phone. Transfer all found data to a notebook. Having grouped them together, it will be easier to track formation of a surname.
4. If to find enough information independently it was not obtained, address to the specialized scientific centers which are engaged in onomastics. They study origin of names and surnames. Services of these organizations paid. However to you will make the document fastened with the seals in which there will be all contemporary records relating to the history of origin of your sort. You can be sure that really serious work with documents in storages is performed and what explains creation of your surname is isolated.