how can i find my ancestors?

Question

i have tried searches on the internet but all the ones i found you had to pay for or i just didnt know how it worked can you give me a link to a site that is free and is easy to use. i dont use books for this kind of thing

Answer 1

www.ancestory.com

Answer 2

I have given this answer many times on yahoo answers when it fits the question..

If you have any living relatives interview them and find all the information they know or information that has been handed down to them. Also try to get pictures of family and ancestors. Pick the names you are looking for.

You can get a free download program from the Family Search site to begin to build your family tree.

Family Search
Search the Family History Library's database, which contains millions of names from thousands of family trees; a project of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ...
Category: Genealogywww.familysearch.org

The following site has some free areas and some you have to pay to get into.

Ancestry.com
Allows users to search historical records by category or location, build a family tree. Also includes message boards, news, research tools, and how-to articles.
Category: Genealogywww.ancestry.com

USGen Web is free. There are sites being built and added onto all the time.

USGenWeb
Working to provide Internet web sites for genealogical research in every county and state in the U.S.
Category: USGenWeb Projectwww.usgenweb.com

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You can also buy a program called Family Tree Maker. I hear it is good but I use family search Ancestrial File. (The free download)

I gathered enough to write historys of my mothers and fathers lineage. Once you start to seach, something happens. You begin to know your ancestors by their first name and you begin to feel their spirit.

I have a poem I will share with you. It Inspires you to search with all your might.

Strangers In The Box
Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I've often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.
I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box, Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.
I wonder what their lives were like,
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I'll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, or when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be passed away?
Make time to save your stories,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.
Pamela A. Harazim

Good Luck in you search.

Answer 3

There are links to 250,000 free sites here in the resolved questions. There isn't an easy way. If you failed high school history (or got a "C-") you won't have the time, interest or skills to trace your family tree. It would be a waste of our time to give you links you wouldn't use.

Some things in life are harder than downloading MP3 songs.

You can seach the resolved questions and prove me wrong; use the word "free" and limit the search to the "A & H" category.

90% of the genealogy data in the world is in books, court records, dusty old court registers and microfilmed newspapers, not on the Internet.

Answer 4

Check with the Mormons. They have the most extensive geneaology records in the world. There's actually a bizarre reason for it.....has to do with claiming dead people as Mormons, converting dead people as Mormons in order to "save" their souls. I don't know about that...BUT.....when I visited our state's stair fair in the late summer, the LDS church had a booth at the vendor's pavillion and I knew the geneaology bit about them from a news story on TV. I approached them and for free, they did a geneaology search on the spot to trace all my great aunts, uncles, their parents (my great grandparents) and from there, they could trace back the great-great grandparents. So in a 20 minute session at their booth while enjoying the state fair that day w/ my kids, I found out the names, b.d., b.places and all these people in my family going back about 120 years. It was very, very helpful and helped me further trace more lineage. Contact the nearest LDS church in your area, show that you've got an earnest interest to know your family history and heard the church had great records and how you can get help.

Answer 5

The stage of lack of information on this chain of so-referred to as solutions is real pathetic. And wherein have been you whilst your biology elegance used to be finding out evolution? I might have mentioned it used to be typical expertise that men and women did NOT evolve from apes - till I learn this subject. Jeez. We all had a typical ancestor. Early hominids cut up off from the exceptional apes approximately eight milion years in the past. They advanced in one-of-a-kind instructional materials and we men and women, Homo sapiens, have been the one victorious species. Oh yeah...there are a quantity of "lacking hyperlinks," the most up-to-date being that fish with legs that used to be learned within the final 6 months or so. And that historic noticed approximately evolution being "most effective" a idea? Scientists use the phrase "idea" in a different way than laymen do. Evolution is as forged as gravity and virtually as handy to illustrate. Just seem at that TB superbug for the modern-day illustration of evolution at paintings!

Answer 6

Some of the time the answers aren't on the internet so you start with you. What do you know? What do you want to know? If your parents or siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews are around ask questions. Ask questions like: where were--to your parents or uncles aunts or grandparents--you born? Do you have any brothers or sisters? Tell me about you life as you grew up? Where did you go to school?

Answer 7

genealogy.com
ancestry.com
buy or download a family tree maker for one of them, they both have searches built in, if you don't have a paid account with them there is alot of information you can't find, but there is still alot you can find. I Haven't paid a cent and so far with the program and the internet I went back to about 1700 so far.

Answer 8

I used zabaseach to find my father, don't know how far back you're wanting or how far back this site checks. I'm 21 and it had addresses of my father from before I was born, so this might help, and it's free.

Answer 9

DUDE I KNOW YOU THATS CRAZY COOLIO HOULIO YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW YOU WE ARE THE SAME PERSON COOL AND IM JUST USINGA DIFFERENT ACCOUNT DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH I DONT KNOW WHERE YOU COULD LOOK THOUGH SORRY!!!!!