answers1: http://www.cyndislist.com <br>
<br>
For US military genealogy go to
http://navydads.blogspot.com/2008/10/naval-genealogy.html
answers2: I just want to say in general you should only post family
trees of deceased people. If you post living people on them then, if
their mother is also posted, someone would know the mother's maiden
name and this can lead to identity theft. I've dealt with this for the
past 9 mo.
answers3: Get a No Cost Background Check Scan at <a
href="https://bitly.im/aO66l"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>https://bitly.im/aO66l</a> <br>
<br>
Its a sensible way to start. The site allows you to do a no cost scan
simply to find out if any sort of data is in existence. A smaller
analysis is done without cost. To get a detailed report its a modest
payment. <br>
<br>
You may not realize how many good reasons there are to try and find
out more about the people around you. After all, whether you're
talking about new friends, employees, doctors, caretakers for elderly
family members, or even significant others, you, as a citizen, have a
right to know whether the people you surround yourself with are who
they say they are. This goes double in any situation that involves
your children, which not only includes teachers and babysitters, but
also scout masters, little league coaches and others. Bottom line, if
you want to find out more about someone, you should perform a
background check.
answers4: You never know, you might check some genealogy site and lo!
you find a tree going all the way back to Caesar! But, beware! The
only way you can find YOUR genealogy is to do it step by step and
verify as much as possible each name, date, and location. <br>
So, try all of these: <br>
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). <br>
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). <br>
A third option is one of the following websites: <br>
<a href="http://www.searchforancestors.com/..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.searchforancestors.com/...</a>
<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...</a>
<br>
<br>
www dot usgenweb dot com/ <br>
<br>
www dot census dot gov/ <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.rootsweb.com/</a> <br>
<br>
www dot ukgenweb dot com/ <br>
<br>
www dot archives dot gov/ <br>
<br>
http://www.familysearch.org/ <br>
<br>
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... <br>
<br>
http://www.cyndislist.com/ <br>
<br>
www dot geni dot com/ <br>
<br>
Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's
passenger lists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the
Philippines, where ever and whatever. <br>
<br>
Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620,
plimouth, massachusetts" as an example. <br>
<br>
Good luck and have fun! <br>
<br>
Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites: <br>
<br>
www dot associatedcontent dot com/article... <br>
<br>
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. <br>
I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics
Genotype Program.
answers5: There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. I have links to
some huge ones, below, but you'll have to wade through some advice and
warnings first. <br>
<br>
If you didn't mention a country, we can't tell if you are in the USA,
UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. <br>
<br>
If you are in the USA, <br>
AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, <br>
AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, <br>
AND you are white <br>
Then 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 young people stop reading here and pick another
hobby. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to
be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify.
<br>
<br>
So much for the warnings. Here is the main link. <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html</a>
<br>
<br>
That 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". <br>
<br>
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.
answers6: My answer is lengthy and I apologize for that but I want to
warn you of the advantages and the pitfalls of genealogy on the
internet. So I have cut and am pasting an answer. <br>
<br>
Here is a link to various websites, some free, some not. <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.progenealogists.com/top50genealogy2008.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.progenealogists.com/top50gene...</a>
<br>
<br>
Websites that only have family trees are not worth a tinker's curse
unless you are willing to verify the information with
documents/records. They are subscriber submitted, very seldom
documented and if they are they are poorly documented. You frequently
will see the different info on the same people from different
subscribers. Then you will see the absolute same info on the same
people from different subscribers but you would be very foolish if you
thought for one moment that that means it is correct. A lot of people
copy without verifying. The information can be useful as clues only as
to where to get the documentation. <br>
<br>
Right before Christmas of 2008, I found out I was dead. So was my
sister and my brother-in-law. We died in New Jersey. Since the only
time my sister and I were ever in New Jersey is when our family drove
through it coming from New York in 1957. It was the same year
Hurricane Audrey hit in our part of the world. Hey! we had been dead
for 51 years. It says so on the internet. It has to be right if it is
on the internet! <br>
<br>
I found out that family on both sides married and died in New Jersey.
Since my ancestry is mostly southern American colonial with some
exceptions and those exceptions came in through southern ports, I was
surprised. <br>
<br>
This tree would have been accepted by any genealogy website. You can
make up an entirely fictitious family tree and it will be accepted.
You disagree with something someone has on one of your family members,
the websites will tell you that it is between you and the other
subscriber. <br>
<br>
This subscriber had almost 150,000 names in her family tree. There are
too many people with trees on the internet that think it is more
important to get as many names as possible rather than have a good
verifiable family tree. They copy info from other family trees,
perhaps on their inlaws. Then they find inlaws of their inlaws and go
crazy. One website, genealogy.com use to encourage people to merge
other people's family trees into theirs. That is downright sloppy
genealogy. <br>
<br>
Now the best for the total amount of records online isn't free but
your public library might have a subscription to it. That is
Ancestry.Com. Still be careful about the information in their family
tree, particularly their One World Tree program. <br>
If you have been into Ancestry.Com, you might have an option at the
top to "switch back to old search." I find it much better, then to the
right when you are under search you can pick categories to search
under. <br>
<br>
CyndisList.com is a website with links to many other websites, some
free and some not. Many people involved in genealogy find it helpful.
<br>
<br>
Not all records are online but the ones you will find will save you
time and money traveling to courthouses, libraries etc. <br>
<br>
However your first free source is your own family. Get information
from them. Tape your senior members if they will let you. People who
do this state they go back and listen to the tape again after doing
research and hear things they didn't hear the first time around. I am
not saying they won't be confused or wrong on some things. <br>
<br>
Find out if anybody in your family has any old family bibles. Ask to
see and make copies of birth, marriage and death certificates.
Depending on the religious faith, baptismal, first communion,
confirmation and marriage certificates from their church can be
helpful. <br>
<br>
A good free source is a Family History Center at a Latter Day
Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world,
not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest
genealogical collection. Their FHCs can order microfilm for you to
view at a nominal fee. <br>
<br>
They won't try to convert you, at least they haven't done so to me or
anyone else that I know. Just call the nearest Mormon Church or visit
their free website, FamilySearch.org, to get their hours for the
general public. <br>
<br>
Rootsweb and FamilySearch.org are 2 free sites but remember verify
information in family trees with documents/records. If you don't you
don't know whether it is accurate or not. <br>
<br>
Also be wary of any website, merchant in a mall or at airport selling
so called "family crest." A crest is part of a coat of arms. Coats of
arms do not belong to surnames.The family history that comes with them
will not be the family history of everyone with the same surname.
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