Surname Bailey, need help with family tree.?
Can someone tell me where the surname Bailey comes from? I have read it comes from England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway.. I’m black so.. I guess the merge happened in America? no idea.
Do those DNA tests work? Do you need to already have your family tree mapped out for the DNA tests to work? We registered for ancestry.com but without pre existing knowledge it was useless. I’m hoping someone with better resources (other than just doing a Google search) can help me.
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Jacob – I’m no geneology expert, but I’d be willing to guess that your surname’s roots come more from England/Ireland than Norway. If you are searching family names, don’t rule out the possibility of alternate spellings of your last name. Example: when researching my mother’s side of my family, I came across a relative who’s maiden name was Hardy. I later found out that her REAL maiden name was actually spelled h-a-r-d-i-e but when her marriage certificate was filled out by (whoever) at the courthouse, they spelled it phonetically/incorrect. Somehow the changed spelling “stuck” and she used Hardy all her life.
So keep snooping and look for Baley, Baylee, or anything that “sounds” close to your name. You might find something, or you might not. You never know until you look.
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