How to Find the Family History of the Cain Family
When you are ready to find the family history of the Cain family, you should start with living relatives and then move to offline and online resources. You will find information such as census reports, birth and marriage records, newspaper entries and naturalization records. The research goes quickly when you have all the available information at your disposal, which the Internet has supplied. Write all of your information down as you go along and start at the beginning.
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Ask living family members for information about any living and deceased family members that they remember. Get marriage dates, spouse's names, birthdates and any children's names. Collect all of the information that living relatives remember. This includes stories and any medical information. Chart the information you collect using software or available charts at Free Family History and GED Software.
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Use Ancestry.com and RootsWeb to expand your research. Take the information that you gathered in step 1 and find other relatives of the people in your family. You can look for census records, which provide spouse's names, parents name, ages at census time, occupation, where the person was born and if the person is a citizen or the year of naturalization. You will find that the name Cain originates from Ireland, England, France, Germany, Scotland and Great Britain.
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Search the records at your local Historical Society. If your family has lived in the area for years, you will find more information dating back to the early years, which will link family members to churches, other families and what they did for a living. If you have family from another area, you can contact the local Historical Society and ask for a search of the surname that you are searching for. They usually will charge a small fee for this service.
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Use the newspaper articles through Ancestry.com or your local library to find engagements, marriages or deaths. The obituaries will give you information about children, spouse's and parent's names, and sometimes a cause of death.
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Read the book "Cains of the South in the Revolutionary War," which can be found at your local library or they can get it for you from another library. The book details the Revolutionary War with mentions of the Cains by first names and where they were located during this era. If you have found ancestors back to this time, you will be able to find out information about them if they were a part of the war.
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Use the message boards at RootsWeb and Ancestry.com to look for other people searching the Cain family name. You can find a great deal of information and ask for information from others that may have come across the surname in their own researches.
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Visit your local library for the book "Cain Genealogy." This book will detail the Cain family history and can help you find ancestors. You will also find cemetery records in a special section in the Family Research department of the library as well as census records on microfilm and local newspapers on microfilm dating back to the early years. When doing your research for the surname Cain, keep in mind that some of the variants of the name are Cane, Caen and Coyne.
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Read Ellis Island records of people entering the country. When you use this site, you should be careful and double check your information because there are many people that changed their names or have the same name as someone else. Look under Cain and view all of the records for people with that surname entering the country.
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Search other country genealogy records online and at a local library. The online database for the surname Cain is found in Ireland, Great Britain, Canada, United States, Scotland and Germany. The Cain records have birth records for all Cains recorded at birth and marriage licenses. Some of these online sources will show a handmade map of where the Cain house was located when that person was alive.
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Read "Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors. The essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800," which will reference the surname Cain and how they immigrated to Ulster. For information about who to contact for historical records about the Cain surname in Ireland read "Irish Libraries: Archives, Museums & Genealogical Centres." This book will give you all the information you need to find out more facts about the Cains in Ireland.
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