Pamela Meno: If you didn't notice the free trial business, and didn't suspect anything, I should warn you about people who work for the Nigerian Ministry of Oil. They will write to you about $14,000,000 (FOURTEEN MILLION) they want to share with you. It is a trick. You have to keep your wits about you on the Internet.There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among themwww.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized.www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records.wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entriesusgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USAssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Social Security Death Index, 83 million namesvitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index, 9,366,786 recordswww.findagrave.com - 43 million recordsgenforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state, and thousands of surnames.boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and surnames to! o.archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over 30 million messagesI have a page with real links to all of those, below, but you'll have to wade through some advice and warnings first.If you search the resolved questions in this category only for the word "Free"(use "Advanced" to limit your search to this category only), you'll find there are thousands questions with the word, and at least 2/3rds of them ask "How can I trace my family tree for free?", just like you did. The answers to those questions have lots of links and tips. We top 10 paste our stock answer to that question 3 - 12 times a day, sigh, and wonder why you kids haven't read the resolved questions. You are rare and special in some ways, undoubtedly, but not in your curiosity about your family. As of February 2011 there were 5,075 resolved questions with the word "free" in them in Genealogy.If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one of their international sub-s! ites, we can't tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Austr! alia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. If you are in the USA, AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, AND you are whiteThen you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with 100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are black, sadly. Many people stop reading here and pick another hobby.No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late.You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking up obituaries and so forth.Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to be cautious and look at people's sourc! es. Cross-check and verify. So much for the warnings. Here is the main link.http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.htmlThat page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the "new look".You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The query forms on the sites are NOT intuitive....Show more
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!Chauncey Williama: So another one bites the dust...thy have got what! they wanted all your information to add to their website so they can get more people to join..................there are lots of free websites BUT the internet is not the place to start, nor do you give your infomation to commercial websites so they can use it to market for more business or sell it ( read their terms and conditions)Download some freeware FH software to your own computer so everything you find is on your own computer safe and secure and stays YOURs.. Start with yourself and work back looking at records in your own home which we all have a checklist on this website will help you do that, tlk to your family ask to see their documents CITE everything so you know it is from a records ( not a copy and paste from a website nor cited as the website, which your information will now become for others) lots of help, advice, document help sheets, lots of links to free good quality information on here as well as Free FH software to download http://familytimeline.webs.co! m...Show more
Jefferson Sarson: Yes.You should start by asking all your living relatives about family history. Then, armed with that information, you can go to your public library and check to see if it has a genealogy department. Most do nowadays; also, don't forget to check at community colleges, universities, etc. Our public library has both www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com free for anyone to use (no library card required).Another place to check out is any of the Mormon's Family History Centers. They allow people to search for their family history (and, NO, they don't try to convert you).A third option is one of the following websites:http://www.searchforancestors.com/... http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739... www dot usgenweb dot com/ www dot census dot gov/ http://www.rootsweb.com/ www dot ukgenweb dot com/ www dot archives dot gov/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... http://www.cyndislist.com/ www dot geni dot com/Cyndi! 's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's passenger l! ists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the Philippines, where ever and whatever.Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620, plimouth, massachusetts" as an example.Good luck and have fun!Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites:www dot associatedcontent dot com/article...Then there is the DNA test; if you decide you want to REALLY know where your ancestors came from opt for the DNA test. Besides all the mistakes that officials commonly make, from 10% to 20% of birth certificates list the father wrong; that is, mama was doing the hanky-panky and someone else was the REAL father. That won't show up on the internet or in books; it WILL show up in DNA.I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics Genotype Program.Don't forget to follow the leads: check newspaper archives, cemetery records, library archives, historical/genealogical societies....Show more
Phil Kuarez: There is an excellent tutorial for! those who are new to family research at http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ; everyone starting out in genealogy should understand the basics and this tutorial covers them. After you complete the tutorial, the following is a basic plan and generally only requires the tools that you already have like your computer and Internet service provider. So, start with your birth certificate, which has your parents, and then ask your parents for copies of their birth certificates, which will have your grandparents on them. Then if you grandparents are living, continue the process. At some point, you will experience a problem depending on when you grandparents or great grandparents were born, in that; birth certificates did not exist before the 19th century. Therefore, you need to get back to 1930 with personal records because those types of records are not available to the public for 50 to 100 years depending on the jurisdiction in which they are held and census records which are! quite valuable in tracing our ancestors movements are not available be! fore 1930 at this time. However, with enough information and if they were in the US, you may be able to find your great-grandparents as children on the census in the home with your great-great-grandparents, you never know.By copying or ordering these documents, you have gone to relatively little expense and including you, you have four generations to research and you have it documented with primary documents. That will give you 2 parents, 4 grandparents, and 8 great grandparents’ names to start researching. Now, you can use death certificates, marriage records, census records, immigration records, church records, court records and many other sources to research your ancestry. Your public libraries will most likely have both Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest free for anyone to use while at the library and with a library card you should be able to use Heritage Quest at home. Another free online resource is the Latter Day Saints Church [Mormon] website, which has many free onl! ine records and original documents on their new family search website at: https://www.familysearch.org/ . Their regular website has Ancestral Files, 1880 US Census, 1881 British Census, 1881 Canadian Census, International Genealogical Index, Pedigree Resource File, US Social Security Index and the Vital Records Index for some Countries. In addition to their online records, they have Family History Centers where you can go for personalized help with research and look at microfilm, and while they will not do your research for you they will help you, a lot. They only charge if they have to order something specifically for you or you need photocopies and their charges are minimal. Look on the home page of their website to find a location near you and call to check hours of operation. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Home/Welcome/home.... …this website is also where the Social Security Death Index is located. Additionally, USGenWeb is another free online resource at http://ww! w.usgenweb.org/ . This site is packed with how-to tips, queries and rec! ords for every state and most counties within those states. Then, there is Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ a free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames, post queries on the message boards and subscribe to surname mailing lists.Also, be sure to check each state that you need information from as many have their own projects, for example, the state of Missouri has a great website that has many free source documents online at http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/ and South Carolina has many free wills and other court documents at http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/sea... Also, Family Tree Magazine’s 101 Best Websites, 2010 http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Web... You may have to register for their free newsletter to access this list but you will find that helpful also as they highlight new websites and new research strategies in each newsletter. And the only site that is included on this list which has some links that are f! ree and some that are not is Cyndi’s List but it will be well worth your time to look through the list for the free websites because of their quality: http://www.cyndislist.com/ There is a new free genealogy search engine, Macavo.com, that provide genealogist and newcomers alike with the best genealogy content on the web. http://www.mocavo.com/...Show more
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