answers1: try http://www.familysearch.org/
answers2: See -- <a href="https://backgroundreports.im/ancestry"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>https://backgroundreports.im/ancestry</a>
answers3: The best place to begin researching your family tree is with
your very own family. Get a note book and write down everything that
you know about yourself and your siblings. Include dates and places of
birth, marriage and if applicable death dates and places of interment.
As soon as you have all that, move back a generation to your parents.
Once you have all of that, move back to your grandparents and keep
going until you run stuck. Once you have written down everything you
know, talk to your family members. Sometimes even your siblings know
more than you do, but usually if you talk to your parents or
grandparents they can go a generation or two further than you can
simply because they are a generation or two older than you. <br>
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One thing I should mention to you since you are a new genealogist is
to document EVERYTHING! This will save you so much work later. If you
get a date from Grandma's bible, simply document that information. If
you can get in the practice of doing this from the beginning, you will
avoid making the big mistake that most of us genealogists made while
we were starting out. Think about it... if you have 50 people in your
family tree, you might be able to keep this information "in your
head", but what happens when this number rises to 500 or 50,000? After
a while genealogy gets in your blood and 50,000 people is not and
unfeasible number. <br>
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What happens next is up to you. What are you interested in? Would you
like to know who all of your great great grandparents are? Are you
interested in a particular surname? Are you trying to prove that you
are related to someone famous? Only you know the answer to these
questions? Once you've decided which avenue you want to explore you
can continue. There are many records out there that genealogists use.
Many of them are free, but there are others that are by subscription.
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One thing I need to mention is that to trace your genealogy right, it
is going to cost you, whether it be for a subscription to a genealogy
site, paying for vital records, making copies of documentation, buying
gas to visit libraries or cemeteries, but these are such worthwhile
expenditures. The nice thing is that it is not money you spend all at
one time. Many of my roots came from Michigan so everytime I go up
there for a visit, I carve out time to got to the library or to the
cemetery etc. <br>
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There are many people on this forum who are avid genealogists who have
never paid for a membership to ancestry; however, I have found it
invaluable. You might want to visit ancestry because they do have some
free areas on their site. I live next to a branch of the National
Archives and they have every census record in existence. If you start
out looking up people in the census using the microfilms, there is a
process you must follow that requires you to look at two microfilms
before you find the census page of the family that you need. This is
very time consuming and if you are looking up a family member with a
name that is usually spelled wrong, there is no guarantee that you
will find it. The beauty of having a membership to ancestry is that
they have the censuses fully indexed meaning you can type in a name
and pull it right up without looking on two microfilm rolls. Further,
you can manipulate spellings of the name and the places you are
searching in a single search. This alone has made Ancestry worth the
money I have spent for a subscription. Many times Ancestry runs
specials and I pay under $100.00 per year so if you divide that by 12,
the expense is less than a subscription to Netflix or just about
anything else. Ancestry also offers Military records, obituaries,
marriage records, birth and death indexes and much much more. <br>
<br>
With that said, there are also a lot of free resources. I have over
500 links to free genealogy records that I myself have found online.
Here are some that can help just about everyone. <br>
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<a href="http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/f...</a>
This is the webpage to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. <br>
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<a href="http://searches.rootsweb.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://searches.rootsweb.com/</a> <br>
This is a list of popular searchable databases on Rootsweb. There is a
link to the Social Security Death index, as well as death records for
California, Kentucky, Maine, and Texas. There are some international
databases included too. <br>
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<a href="http://www.ellisisland.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.ellisisland.org/</a> <br>
If you are from the United States and know that you have ancestors
that immigrated from other countries, there is a chance that Ellis
Islands website could help you. You can actually look at the ships
manifests on this site. It is so cool! You could even get information
like how much money was in your great grandfathers pocket when he came
over. <br>
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Then there are the message boards at both Ancestry and Rootsweb. They
have boards for surnames, counties, States, and countries. This would
be a great place to post information you already know about family
members and attempt to build on it. It is always wise not to post
information on living family members. <br>
<br>
http://boards.ancestry.com/default.aspx.... <br>
http://genforum.genealogy.com/ <br>
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You can also look at many of the existing trees out there to see if
anybody has created one including members or your families. Sometimes
you get lucky, but if you find one out there, I would recommend
researching the information yourself before including it in your tree.
<br>
<br>
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/.......... <br>
http://www.gencircles.com/ <br>
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After you get so far, you may want to try to input your information
into a family tree program. There are several commercially available;
however, there are a few that you can download for free off of the
internet. PAF (Personal Ancestry File) is a very respectable program
that you can download at <br>
<br>
http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp/wcs/sto... <br>
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There are several different language versions available. Most programs
have places for you to document your sources and have a file format
called GEDCOM making it easy to share your tree with people using a
different genealogy program or easy for you to change programs without
reentering all of your information. <br>
<br>
So, as you can see from my answer... there is a whole lot to learn
about genealogy and finding resources. I learned just by jumping in
and doing it. Once you get out in the genealogy community you will see
that there are a lot of people eager to help you in any way they can.
Have I made mistakes along the way? You bet... who hasn't? You will
find though that the rewards are numerous and that it can get quite
addicting. <br>
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If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through my profile.
Blessings
answers4: One of the best free genealogy sources is the Morman Church
Headquarters in Salt Lake. You don't have to be Morman, or have any
relatives who were/are. They keep extensive records on everybody.
answers5: Get a No Cost Background Check Scan at <a
href="https://bitly.im/aNILL"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>https://bitly.im/aNILL</a> <br>
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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>
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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.
answers6: Rootsweb is a wonderful place to search for information on
your family. You can research by place, last name, affiliations with
organizations, all kinds of directions to follow. Vast site but easy
to explore, with very helpful people, all doing their own research and
willing to share.
answers7: you can start at Familysearch.org. It is probably the
largest and best free site. Not only is all their information free,
but they have some very large databases too. <br>
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<a href="http://www.familysearch.org"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org</a>
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