[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

Thanks for mentioning that site. Within half an hour I was able to find info about my great grandparents from the side of the family nobody really knows anything about along with my grandfather's true name. I'll be busy researching all weekend!

I am glad that you are enjoying it. Beware of the false trail!

Originally Posted by Jandrews

I found some family members on familysearch.org, but couldn't figure out a way to "link" to other relatives. Do you have to know their name to search? For example, if I can find my grandfather, how do I locate his brothers and sisters if I don't know their names? Or is there no way to "link" from one ancestor to another?

Thanks,

JA

You have to hope for reasonably complete entries. And you have to guess & search.

Here is a census entry for my great-grandfather from familysearch



This gives me some of his brothers & sisters & his mother & potential birth year of all of them. But unless you know a name & a place, you are searching blindly. Just follow everybody back & hope for more clues.

Ian