how do you trace a relatives heritage without paying on a web site.I keep running into having to sign up ,pay?

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I want to trace my great great grandfathers heritage,Is there a free web site for this or do I have to pay and how would I go about doing this....Thanks for your time.....

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I know what you mean. I used to be able to use Ancestry.com as long as I had the right info on ancestors; then one day, it said I needed to pay, but there was a trial offer. I don't know how many "trials" I have had...
You should be able to go to the public library...
The biggest expense will be TIME; I have spent hundreds of hours and have so much left to compile.
Remember, no matter where you obtain the information, there are mistakes (yes, I include "official" documents, such as birth certificates, marriage licenses, death certificates, whatever). My maternal grandmother's tombstone doesn't even have her name correct!
Anyhew, as to searching, try these:
Free sites: there are several to choose from. Start with:
http://www.searchforancestors.com/...

http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...

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/

Assuming they emigrated from Europe, start with Ellis Island and the Battery Conservancy sites:
http://www.ellisisland.org
http://www.castlegarden.org
For those with native American ancestry, try:
http://www.tribalpages.com/

For a fee, try a DNA test:
When you really want to know where your ancestors came from, try such sites as: www.familytreedna.com, dnatribes.com, dnaancestryproject.com, and, of course, the National Geographics Genotype program, https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/geno...
For Jewish ancestry, try:
www.israelgenealogy.com
Have a look at these sites these are South African ones,
http://genealogy.about.com/od/south_afri...
http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/page2.html....
http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/website...
http://southafricanfamilyhistory.wordpre...

Meaning of names:
http://www.winslowtree.com/surname-meani...

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f...

Finding live people:
Two good places I use are www.zabasearch.com and www.peoplefinder.com

Don't forget, use your local library. Ours (a small one, yet) has www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com, as well as periodicals, books and guidance from an experienced genealogist.

Keep good notes on where you find what: sources are very important.

I became interested in genealogy when I was a small lad, before I started to school, as my Mom would tell me about her parents, my Dad's parents, and on back. That is also when I first got used to the idea of "the power of 2": You have 2 parents, they each have 2 parents, and so on. 5 generations ago, you would have had 16 g-g-g-grandparents; by 10 generations ago, the number would be 512 "grandparents"; by 35 generations ago, the number is 16,179,869,184 persons (compared to a total of 6,700,000,000 people alive on Planet Earth today). In other words, basically every one on earth can trace their COMMON ancestry back to within the last 34 generations! (Or, since Medieval Times.)

Good luck!

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how do you trace a relatives heritage without paying on a web site.I keep running into having to sign up ,pay?
I want to trace my great great grandfathers heritage,Is there a free web site for this or do I have to pay and how would I go about doing this....Thanks for your time.....

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I teach Beginning Internet Genealogy at the library. The single most common problem newcomers have is filling in the Ancestry advertisement instead of the web page fields. From your Q, I suspect you might be doing that too. Roots Web and the LDS Census site both have ads for Ancestry on them

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I can give you 2 free websites that are pretty reliable however, this is info that other people have submitted and you will need to document with birth, death, marriage certificates, obits and cemetery records.

If you check your local library's homepage they may subscribe to ancestry and heritagequest. If they do then you can use ancestry for free at the library and heritagequest from home with your library card. So check that out.

Just remember what you find online is only a tool. There is a lot of bad info out there so please don't take anyone's word for anything you find. DOCUMENT!!!!!!!!!

rootsweb.com and familysearch.org are both free. Also visit your local LDS center. They have tons of stuff. There are loads of sites out there that are free. If you will look in the answered questions you will find them

Good luck in your quest.

Answer 7

well, as everyone has said ancestry.com is the best, but it is expensive, particularly if your gg-grandfather is was born and lived in a foreign country.

i'll all about the the free geneaology sites, since i'm broke, lol, so i put my family tree on ancestry.com & then go to the library & with a zip drive, i use Ancestry.com library version to research, out what i find on the zip drive & later transfer the data onto my free ancestry.com account, as well as an account i have at myheritage.com, whichis also free - it allows you to add pictures & documents & has an AMAZING search engine.

i'd be able to give you more information, if you added more information about your gg-grandfather - where he was born, lived, died, where he was buried, his religion, etc. because you'd be suprised what kinds of sites & information you can find online.

good luck.

~~~ morgannia

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Well, you can sign up for ancestry.com, genealogy.com, etc, without having to pay...But what I did after signing up was post on the surname message boards and the county and state message boards where they lived, died, or were born...I got tons of replies, and great tips and leads, and met all kinds of cousins! So I am a big believer in posting on the message boards because all those folks are just like you, they are looking to help you out and most of them like to share their information. Never give out information about living relatives though, and ask what documentation they have to support their information..This is very important...Good Luck

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