This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SNOW Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FaIBAIB/1678.2 Message Board Post: Jami, You have been able to learn the names for several generations. That's a good start. (You wrote your line was: James Snow, son of Milton Snow, son of Urban Snow, son of Austin Snow) Might you have any other information about these ancestors -- especially places they lived, when born and died, marriages -- that will help others to make a connection? If you know where people lived, once you get back to someone who was born before 1920 you can look them up in a census. Also, if you know where some are buried you can check the cemetery records and also try to find an obituary in the newspaper from wherever they lived. There are a lot of other records that you can check. Some of them are on the Internet and some are not. Don't forget to talk to people in your family who are older than you. They sometimes can clear up what puzzles you. They also might have interesting stories to share and family memorabilia to show you. Don't forget to keep information you learn about siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and children for each generation as you go back. Also, be sure to keep good records. Later you might need to know just where you got information -- especially if you find that there's a disagreement about some information you had recorded. Remember too that the name you are researching are for people who are part of your family's history. Don't be content with just names and dates, try to find photos of them and collect stories about them. See if you can get to know them even though they may have died long before you were born. The above are tips I wish others had told me when I was beginning to learn about family history. I hope you find them of help. My husband's Snow ancestry goes back via two lines to a Frost Snow who lived in Virginia and his son Thomas who died in the Clinch River in 1818. If you ever see a connection to him, please let me know.