Which genealogy web site?

Question

Hi!
I have a couple of family trees I am trying to build and I was looking for the most acurate and informative site available. Which site do professional genealogist use?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi chaching,

I do not trust any of the sites information, until I verify someone with a birth, death, marriage, personal knowledge of, will, probate, property, obit, or other valid record.

I keep 2 sets of books. The internet sites give me a possible and even probable match. Then, I verify. Else, it cannot be trusted. I found books, 12 inches thick and proved them wrong. It is so easy to make a mistake, and the internet is full of them.

I believe that most people are posting what they think is correct, and it may be. What I am saying is do not trust it without proof.

I can prove my Scottish roots up to about 1600, only because I can read the copies of the OPR (parish records). But past that, there are not the links of the parents names with their birth dates, so, I don't do anything except conjecture. I think, I can go back to 1400 or so, but have not sufficient proof.

I trust the Vital Records sites, because you order a record. I trust Ellis Island because it is a legal document of immigration. I trust SSA (social Security administration). The Mayflower society can be trusted because they demand proof.

I love Family Search, but even they cannot be trusted.

Answer 2

Internet genealogy is, hands-down, the most inaccurate information out there. I personally use Ancestry.com for their census records and other data copies, but very little of the individually submitted stuff. To really do genealogy right, you are going to have a lot of paper around your desk (or, if you're like me, a lot of scanned-in images of documentation).

The Internet should not be the source for any of your information - it should only be something that points you in the right direction of a source.

Answer 3

maximum newspapers the two value an arm and a leg for previous copies or do no longer worry, so which you are able to bypass to a library. something many people do no longer understand - uncomplicated voters are often welcome at school libraries. you are able to no longer examine books out, yet you ought to use their microfilm readers and make copies for 1 / 4 or 15 cents. call the college libraries in Cleveland. (The junior faculties too). Ask in the event that they have the CPD on microfilm and, if so, in case you ought to look at 1991 of their development. The library at Cal Berkeley has six hundred newspapers on microfilm, which is composed of the Hindustan cases, from India. in case you get desperate, i will guess, according to watching the holdings at Cal one afternoon, that Ohio State U has the CPD and could permit you look at it there. OSU has greater of a attractiveness at soccer than Cal, and Cal greater of an academic one, yet they are the two super, respected institutions. The cemetery archives workplace can permit you already know the plot quantity. they are going to probable be waiting to permit you already know the funeral abode. They or the funeral abode could have a replica of the obituary. terrific of success!

Answer 4

Professional genealogist use anything and everything they can get there hands on... (i am not one) Rootsweb.com is good its also free
ancestry.com you have to pay. there are a lot of them out there do a google search.

Answer 5

I highly recommend Ancestry.com. They do require a monthly subscription fee, but it is well worth the money.

Answer 6

ancestry.com is the most comprehensive.