Is there a website where I can trace my genealogy?

Answer 1

http://www.ancestry.com/ Is well worth the money!

You might get lucky and others may have done some work on your family tree. Google family members names i.e. "Mary Smith" + "family tree"

Free sites:

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=27399&o_lid=27399

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/
http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/

http://www.cyndislist.com/

Answer 2

It depends on your family and whether anyone has ever done the research for you, or if you have to do it for yourself. It also depends on which country you live in now, where your ancestors lived before emigrating, and whether the records still exist and have ever been transcribed onto the internet.

Generally speaking, you need to do the research yourself back to the 1850s-80s before you'll find many reliable records on your ancestors on the internet. That's work you need to do yourself with the help of your family. Sit down with the older members of the family and a stack of Family History sheets (which you can download for free from http://www.familysearch.org ) and start filling in names, dates of birth/marriage/death, places, parents and siblings, spouses and children. The more information you have from your family when you get started, the faster and easier your search once you start. After you fill in everything they tell you, you go to the courthouse and library in the town where these people lived and verify it all. Then go back and find the obituaries and biographies that were written and published locally. The library is a wonderful place to find them and you get to bring them back to life.

Once you get back before 1920 you'll find some of these records, especially birth records, are harder to find. When that happens you go to Plan B and start contacting the churches where your family worshipped to find the records of baptisms, marriages and burials.

It's much more fun to do it yourself, and as many will attest around here you'll find way too many of the trees on the internet are full of horrible errors (like 77 year old men fathering children and living to 115 in the early 1800s....pffffftttt....didn't happen). Rather than trying to fix someone else's mess, create your own tree and keep really good copies of all the records you find along the way. It's a wonderful feeling when you break the barrier of the Atlantic ocean and find their hometown in Europe and how they traveled to their new homes with little more than a month's worth of food, a few crude cooking pots, and the clothes on their backs.

Answer 3

Ancestry.Com is good, but you may have to pay a small fee to access their databases.

The best way to go through is to start with your relatives. write letters saying that you're starting a family history and ask them to list any relatives they can, first and last name and any maiden names, etc. That should get you off to a good start.

I've also found sites that linked to others researching my family name just by doing a search for it online. Never know.

Answer 4

www.ancestry.com
For those who cannot afford to subscribe, or choose not to, it can be found at many public libraries.
Also, the Mormons have many places around the country and around the world where one can spend hours searching for their ahnentafel.
Of course, their are websites. You can start with Cyndi's List (www.cyndislist.com) or even google a name. A lot of my ancestors are in the google search base.

Answer 5

You mean, where you can type in your name and someone will have done all the work for you?

No.