How do I find out more about me genealogy?

Question

I want to no more about my family tree but I don't no how to gather that information and I don't no if I can trust that information

And how to find out for free

Answer 1

Have you started with your own relatives? I researched my family tree years ago and my grandmother was the best source ever. Perhaps someone in your family can help you with some info - because you'll definitely need a few names to get started.

Ancestry.com is a good place to start. If you have names and locations of birth/death of different relatives you can locate them on the web site. The site usually offers a free trial. It also provides geneologists who can assist you with info the site might not have.

Courthouse records are also good along with census reports. It's a lot of research and time but these are good starting points.

Answer 2

Marisol is correct. http://www.familysearch.org/ is a free great website. You also download the Personal Ancestry File or PAF program for free to help you keep track of the information that you gather.
Once you have the PAF program, start with yourself and add your parents, Grandparents, ETC. Once you have done that use http://www.familysearch.org/ to look up the ancestors that have passed on. There is not any information on living people on this website.

Answer 3

Go to www.ancestralfindings.com for many essential resources. Then if you are serious, subscribe to www.ancestry.com and start doing some research. However, before you do that, get with family members and get as much "legitimate" information as possible. Stay away from the family myths and legends for now...hit those later. Have fun and Good luck!

Answer 4

Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org
Search the Family History Library's database, which contains millions of names from thousands of family trees.

GenCircles
http://www.GenCircles.com
Searching the global tree and viewing results is free to everyone. In addition to first and last names, the database is searchable by dates and places of birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial, as well as by the names of an individual’s father, mother and spouse.

GeneaNet
http://www.geneanet.org
A database that indexes all the world's genealogical resources, whether Net-based or not and whether free or fee-paying.

Ancestor Hunt
http://www.ancestorhunt.com
Index of Free Genealogy Search Engines

Find Your Family Tree
http://www.findyourfamilytree.com
A free genealogy web site designed to help you find missing branches of your family tree using Pedigree Resource File (PRF), a rapidly expanding collection of family trees submitted by people worldwide to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

GenealogyBuff.com
http://www.genealogybuff.com
Search for your surname in dozens of family history databases with one click. Though you still have to visit each site to see the results (or find out your search came up empty), GenealogyBuff.com can be a good starting point for online research.

USGenWeb
http://www.usgenweb.org
The USGenWeb is one of the premier sites for US researchers. Here you'll find Web pages for every US state and county.

AncestralFindings
http://www.ancestralfindings.com
AncestralFindings may not own every database you're interested in, but its collection is impressive. Holdings include CD-ROM records of births, deaths, marriages, census indexes, land records, passenger lists, immigrations and Genealogy.com's entire World Family Tree collection.

Answer 5

Ask family and friends, compile a list of names of grand parents, great grandparents, and if possible great great grandparents. Ask everyone you can about relatives, and when, and where they were born. Once you have that info it's time to hit the Internet, and see if you can find birth certificates.....you maybe able to get back to 1900 depending on location. It's alot of work, and alot of digging, but there are records out there somewhere.

Answer 6

When I started looking up my history, I first gathered up what info I could at home. Birth and death certificiates, copies of obits, talking to relatives ( I hardly have any), etc. Go to the library and look up census records. (Many libraries have a geneaology dept that can help you). Look for books written by families for info. For instance one side of my family had traced back to the 1600's & published the info. I found that my family had lived here in the same city since around 1850 & I was able to find them in the city directories for many years. I found the date of death of my ggrandfather and looked in the newspaper microfiche records around that time and was able to find his obit in the paper. In fact, from the obit I was able to connect him to a family I had found because it listed the married name of his sister. From the city directories I also found that he had at one time opened his own business and was able to find advertising for it in the newspaper. Its amazing the stuff you can find sometimes. Good luck to you!

Answer 7

Also, if there are any Latter Day Saint churches in your area, I've heard their geneaology resources are phenomenal since their members have to find out how who their ancestors were.

Answer 8

try this website, I'm pretty sure it's free:
http://www.familysearch.org/