You can do this by searching for records for the sibling of the oldest ancestor you've found and then looking through the sibling's records to find their parents.

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Discover your family history by searching your ancestor's name on Ancestry®, the leading online resource for genealogy research. Start your person search here.

Ancestry Hints® connects you to more stories. Once you start your tree, Ancestry® will begin to comb through our collections and add possible details and discoveries to the tree. These Ancestry Hints® …

If you and one of your DNA matches have the same ancestor in your trees, we show you that person as a common ancestor. When a match has a common ancestor, you'll see it listed.

The higher a result is in the list of search results, the more likely it is to be about your ancestor, while lower results may be less relevant or less likely to be about your ancestor.

That chain of parents and children are your ancestors. This means that not every older relative is your ancestor. For example, your aunts and uncles are your relatives but not your ancestors, because you …

Pinpoint your ancestor’s location from the census on a map, and then look for churches, cemeteries, and other places where your ancestor may have left records.

You’ll typically find a variety of records were created for your ancestor’s death. Once you locate one, you’ll want to use information in that record to explore other types of records.

When you learn the name of a possible ancestor, investigate how closely they're related to you. Use the predicted relationship to estimate the ancestor's generation in the tree you created; for example, a …