I want to find out about my family tree?

Question

Are there any good web sites that will help me???

Answer 1

Hey Skin,

You have come to the right place. Start with your living relatives, stores, interviews, records, and every thing you can find from them. That is where you start. How will you record your tree? That is next and it is good to decide up front. Most of us use software. I put some sites, including some free software. Then, you follow the clues from all the records you gathered. Birth Certificates give names of parents, their birth locations and dates. Marriage Certificates give maiden names and parents names. Death Certificates, and Obituaries are also great. You can get these from Towns (first since cheapest), Cities, Counties and States.

Then, start getting more records for each new discovery. Here are some really great sites. As you have more questions, please come back and post them.

Answer 2

RustSkipper's answer is the most comprhensive. Mine is different.

If you live in the USA and are willing to spend an hour and a half, you could do me a HUGE favor and learn about your family tree at the same time.

Get a list of your grandparents, their birth, marriage & death dates and places, maiden names for the grandmothers. If you can do it for your great grandparents, even better. If you don't have all the dates and places for all the people, that is OK.

Then go to

http://www.tedpack.org/genclass1.html

Work through the exercises. They all ask you to look up someone from your list on the free data bases. Where it says to do it for one or two people, do it for all of them. I'd like to know if you find it clear, helpful and well-laid out.

It is for a class I'm going to do at our library on Internet genealogy for beginners.

I'd appreciate feedback; what worked, what didn't, what was clear, what wasn't, what caused you problems. You will probably find some clues to your family tree and you will certainly get an introduction to some of the largest free genealogy sites on the Internet.

Thanks!

Answer 3

i used www.genesconnected.co.uk and got as far back as the 1700's they also have links to the online census's

Answer 4

you can try
www.ancestry.com
www.rootsweb.com
www.lds.com
there the sites that i have used

Answer 5

http://www.familysearch.org/

Answer 6

try these.....


http://www.1901censusonline.com/
http://landing.ancestry.co.uk/uki/collection.aspx?html=db1&o_xid=21568&o_lid=21568&offerid=0%3a723%3a0
http://www.achievements.co.uk/services/tree/index.html?OVRAW=family%20tree&OVKEY=family%20tree&OVMTC=standard