Family Genealogy?

Question

were are some places that are free that search family history? I've looked at www.findyourfamilytree.com and www.ancestory.com

Answer 1

Many U.S. counties have their own genealogical websites. Some of them have amazing amounts of information. Through one website maintained by an east Texas county, I was able to find reams of info on my father's ancestors, including biographies, obituaries, burial sites, and even photos of some of them. Through information they provided, I was able to find the burial site where 4 generations of my ancestors are buried. Be wary of any information you obtain from the Church of Latter Day Saints. They are not always reliable. I have found info provided by them which shows my grandmother married to her nephew.

If you know the county and state of a particular ancestor's origin, google that county's genealogical society and see what it pulls up. Of course, you can always guess at a website's name and type it into the URL line and see what results.

Answer 2

Rootsweb.Com and FamilySearch.org.

Now, if you find your family in any of the trees, do not assume the information is correct. This is true of any of the information on any website. Much of the information is not documented. You frequently will see the same information over and over by different submitters. That is because there is a lot of copying going on.
The sites can be helpful but you must use the information in the famiy trees as hints as to where to look not as fact.

You need first to get as much information as possible from your family. Start with your parents, then your grandparents and go back as far as you
can. Talk with family. Senior members can be very helpful, even if their minds are a little fuzzy.
If they let you tape them it will be great. I wished I had taped my paternal grandmother and my mother's aunt before they died.
People who do this say after they have done research for a few years, they listen to the tapes again and hear things they didn't hear the first time around. Some things you disregarded that they said turn out to be very important.

You can get a lot of information from death certificates, it shows parents, including mother's maiden name and where they were born.
Application for a Social Security Number has the same information but it was given by the person themselves so it is even better. The death certificate information is frequently given by someone trying to remember where grandma was born.
Obituary notices give survivor information.
The message boards on Ancestry.Com and Rootsweb.Com can be valuable. On some boards there are people monitoring them and some will provide you with an obit.
Census Records are helpful. Ancestry.Com has them but it is not free. You can see how Ancestry translated them or you can look at the actual census image. Starting with the 1850 all members of a household were shown on the census.
A lot of genealogical libraries or genalogical sections of libraries have census records.

Answer 3

Even resources that you usually have to pay for are free when you go to the public library. Most larger library systems subscribe to either Ancestry.com or HeritageQuest and pay a very hefty annual subscription fee that lets their patrons access these records. You either do it from a computer in the library or some have the privilege of you being able to sign in from home via a portal on the library's website.

The library also is usually part of a consortium of other libraries that share their works among member libraries. So if you need a census film from another part of the state, your library can order it through Interlibrary Loan. If you need newspaper or obituary records from another library, your library can order those, too.

Also, each state has one master library that is run by the State. That library is usually an extremely large collection of works from throughout the state. In my state, Michigan, they have even filmed every known copy of every newspaper ever printed in the state. Those are available through any library in the state. The State Library is also usually affiliated with the State Archives. While the works at the Archives don't circulate, they have usually filmed everything of value to genealogists and make them available through the State Library and your local library system.

The other place of real value is the GenWeb project. There is a site for every county in the country. Run by volunteers, the sites are collections of the resources from that county, give you background on which records were kept and when, and they give you a message board to pick the brains of local researchers for how to find records on your family. You can find your county by going to www.usgenweb.org, pick your state, then your county.

Answer 4

ancestry.com has the most resources online. You'd want to see rootsweb.com and familysearch.org as well.

There's also your local library, and your local LDS family history center. Don't overlook family cemeteries, wear a hat for shade, take a lunch and cool drink, a notebook and your digital camera.

These are all predicated on you having interviewed your living family to learn all you can of who were their parents and grandparents on back as far as any recall. You'll need full names, places and dates of their births, marriages and deaths as well as you can learn them.

Answer 5

Find an LDS church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in your area. Most of them have a genealogy center at one of their buildings where you can look things up and receive help doing so.

Answer 6

I use www.ancestry.co.uk (or .com) and I have got great results from there.

Also, try your local libraries, or libraries in your area. They often have sections on local history that may be of use.

Good luck! x

Answer 7

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Answer 8

www.heritagequest.com
www.ancestry.com
www.rootsweb.com
www.familysearch.org
www.cyndislist.com

Good Luck!

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Answer 9

familysearch.org try it!!!!