I'm trying to find my family tree and information on my family. But i dont have a credit card or know where to go to find out about my family i have tryed just typeing my last name to see where that would take me but i got nothing.
2006-07-11 11:37:18 · 7 answers · asked by desirableheaderfreak 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
A good place to start is at http://www.cyndislist.com you will find a lot of very useful links to free genealogy sites here. Some others that I have found useful are:
http://www.usgenweb.org
http://www.worldgenweb.org
http://www.ellisisland.org
http://www.rootsweb.com
Also there are free message boards at Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com where you can contact others researching the same family names.
2006-07-11 13:07:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The website below is a FREE website available to people doing their genealogical work. In fact, most of the pay sites get their FREE information from this site and organize it for their own sites.
2006-07-12 17:50:20 · answer #2 · answered by Professor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should find a page for your family name on Genforum: www.genforum.com.
Also check out www.familysearch.org
www.usgenweb.org
www.rootsweb.com
Also, you don't mention your ethnic heritage, but there are sites like Genlias (Dutch), PRDH (French-Canadian), GenPol (Poland) that will help you, too.
Depending on when your family arrived in this country, you can either try www.ellisisland.org (1892-1920) or www.castlegarden.org (1830-1900-ish).
2006-07-11 20:57:37 · answer #3 · answered by yellow_jellybeans_rock 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Google, they can help with finding ancestors, and if I remember it's free.
I've also heard that you can get a debit card from Western Union, with cash.
http://www.westernunion.com/info/osPrepaidMC.asp
You can pay for an Ancestry.com membership monthly, instead of yearly.
http://www.ancestry.com
2006-07-11 19:35:27 · answer #4 · answered by Orchid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, http://www.rootsweb.com/ is my favorite. Its 100% free and has a multi faceted search engine.
2006-07-12 12:52:40 · answer #5 · answered by quasipuca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had moderate success with Ancestory.Com and Familysearch.com (owned by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints).
2006-07-11 20:55:47 · answer #6 · answered by deonne r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.familysearch.org, but stay away from the Ancestral files, they aren't always reliable.
2006-07-11 23:59:21 · answer #7 · answered by trinitytough 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋