I am researching my family history and trying to prove Sir Francis Drake is my ancestor. Can anyone help?
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I found this on RWWC. Looks like you have several generations to go.\n\nName: David Albert DRAKE \nFather: John Scarlott DRAKE b: 27 JUL 1846 in Harlem Springs, Carroll County, Ohio \nMother: Mary Elizabeth LEWERS b: ABT 1849 in Pennsylvania\n\nMarriage 1 Nannie OYER\nChildren\n Wanda DRAKE
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go to family history.com
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You can start by asking family members as much as you can about parents, grandparents etc. including places of birth etc. After you get all that information a good place to start is www.rootsweb.com, it is a free ancestry site that is hosted by www.ancestry.com. You can look up ancestors by surname (last name), locations (country,state,county,and city). There are many other headings that can help you. You can also search family trees, someone else may have already done research on one of your ancestors. You can also request a look-up and someone might research census records from 1790-1910 to help you. There is also a site www.familysearch.org., it is also a free site hosted by the LDS (Church of The Latter Day Saints), they have birth, death, marriage and the census from 1880.
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?ceja::28.html
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check out www.ancestry.com
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Have you tried http://www.ancestry.com ? Their 1881 census is free, I have seen a few people on the censuses that were in ships.
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Try http://www.ancestry.com which will walk you through everything.
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The only way is to do the footwork. If your father was referring to British royalty and you are keen to trace your family in the UK, you will need to look at your family's birth, marriage and death certificates. If your Dad has his birth certificate it will show your grandparents' names. You can then trace back to their certificates and discover your great grandparents' names until they started in 1837. From that information, you should be able to discover dates and places and compare them to censuses which will give you more information. Finally, the oldest data around is contained in parish registers. It will take some doing to find out, but is possible.\n\nA lot of this information has been made available on-line.\n\nIf your ancestors were royal doctors, it is also likely that they will appear in history books and biographies - so it is worth rooting around your second hand bookshops and library too.\n\nThe BBC has a brilliant website that will help anyone interested in finding out about their British ancestory. See below . . .
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You might be able to try http://www.ancestory.com \nHope it helps!
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If you can find out one or the other it will help you immensely. I hope for you sake that it was in Indiana. I am from IN and and have had very good luck tracing records in almost all of the county court houses. Many of the county libraries have extensive documents from local news papers. I know how frustrating any geneology work can be I have been working off and on on mine for 20 years. Best of luck.
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Begin where I did.  The LDS church has vast genealogical resources.  By just plugging in my great grandfather's name and his approximate dates I was able to trace the family all the way back to 1640. If I could do this with a common last name, anybody can do it!\n\nYour family just might be on one of the existing family trees at the genealogy sites.  The sites do not list the living family members, so you will have to get the names of your grand parents or earlier ancestors. The chart you find might be for a great-grand uncle, but you can get close.\n\nIt can be done!
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Yes there is one called my trees.  www.mytrees.com you can find your ancestors for free.All you have to do is go to the extraction documents bit.Translate an old document for them and this then allows you an hour looking through their records.Why not take a look.Good luck.
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this site is considered the best for geneology. you might have to register at some point but i have not had to for my research and it is totally free.
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THERE ARE ALOT OF WEBSITES THAT TRACK DOWN YOUR HISTORY IF YOU HAVE HIS FULL NAME PLACE OF BIRTH PARENTS NAMES ECT... YOUR SURE TO GET SOME RESULTS OTHERWISE I DONT KNOW........ GOOD LUCK WITH THE FATHER QUEST..
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ancestry.com is a good one
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You can start here\n\nhttp://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gs=allgs&prox=1&sourceid=23713&gsfn=john&gsln=csincsik&Submit=%20%20%20%20%20Search%20Ancestry%20%20%20%20%20&o_iid=23713&o_lid=23713&gl=allgs\n\ngood Luck
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hey, i'm a stevenson! i don't have a clue about what you are talking about with royalty..however, i would like my stipend too...and i suppose a title so i can prove it's owed to me, also...i'm into genealogy and i did some famdamily history on stevenson..and i actually found living relatives who also do tree limb leaves...who are realted to me by stevenson..if you'd like i can get you his name and you can see if you are realted to him, me and robert louis stevenson...i also found 5000 plus other names that were related!