Kirk Coolbeth: cindi's listhttp://www.cyndislist.com/
Wally Gower: First and foremost, start with the people who are living. Find out what they know. Talk with aunts and uncles, cousins, and so on - anybody who is part of your family. Get dates, locations, names, memories, stories - it's ALL important. Find out what they remember about people who are no longer living, too. Put all your information into a database that will help you organize it. The Mormon church offers a free one, "Personal Ancestral File," that you can download from their web site (they won't bug you in terms of their religion). Once you have included as much as you can from people who are living, start to search online sites, records, etc., for matching people and events. Computers have revolutionized genealogy in the last two decades, and there are ENORMOUS amounts of data available, as well as innumerable personal genealogical web sites. Good luck in your search! http://www.ldscatalog.com/webapp! /wcs/stores/servle...http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default....http://www.ancestry.com...Show more
Wilmer Skidmore: 1
Mozell Sponsler: those answers are good
Hermina Ketring: There are over 500,000 free sites devoted to genealogy on the Internet. Which is the best depends on your heritage. The best Irish genealogy site in the world wouldn't be much good to a Frenchman. It also depends on whether you are willing to pay a subsctiption fee or not.Researching your family tree is about as difficult as writing a term paper in a high school History class. You don't have to be a rocket scientist, but it isn't as easy as looking up the capital of Peru. If your great-aunt has already done it and posted her line on the Internet, you might find a line from your (dead) great grandfather all the way back to Charlemagne tonight, without any work. If not, you will have to do the work yourself. Most teens don't want to spend the ! time. If you are interested, read on.These are large and free.! Many of them, however, have subtle ads for Ancestry.com in them - ads that ask for a name, then offer a trial subscription. Watch out for those advertisements.http://www.cyndislist.com/(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed. If you want Welsh or Pennsylvania Dutch or Oregon or any other region, ethnic group or surname, chances are she has links for it.)The LDS site and the RWWC here would be the places to look for Great Aunt Matilda's research. Don't enter everything; just name and approximate birth year.http://www.familysearch.com(Mormon's mega-site. Click on "Search", to start with, or "Advanced Search")Roots Webhttp://www.rootsweb.comand in particular,http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...(Roots Web World Connect; 500,000,000+ entries, of varying quality)Ancestry.comhttp://www.ancestry.com/(which has free pages and FEE pages - so watch out)and, in particular,http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?l...Surname meanings and originshttp://www.tedpack.or! g/begingen.htmlMy own site: "How to Begin"United States only:http://www.usgenweb.net/(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.)(The Canadians have Canadian Gen Web, by province)http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cg...(Social Security Death index - click on "Advanced". You may find your grandparents.)http://find.person.superpages.com/(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins)United Kingdom Only:http://www.genuki.org.uk/(Biggest site for United Kingdom & Ireland)http://www.freebmd.org.uk/(Free Birth, Marriage & Death Records)In the USA, some public libraries have census image subscriptions. Many Family History Centers do too. FHC's are small rooms in Mormon churches. They welcome anyone interested in genealogy, not just fellow Mormons. They have resources on CD's and volunteers who are friendly. They don't try to convert you; in fact, they don't mention their religion unless you ask a question about it.This is a general hint: Even though yo! u go in through YA Canada, YA Australia, YA UK or YA USA, all of the qu! estions go into one big "pot" and get read by everyone in the world who speaks English. Most of the people here are in the UK and USA, but you sometimes get questions and answers from people who worry about kangaroos eating their roses. So - put a nation, or, better yet, if you are asking about a specific individual, a nation and a state / province, in all of your questions. It will help people help you....Show more
Arleen Bussing: http://www.familysearch.org/ is the best completely free site.www.ancestry.com/ is the best paid membership site.
Eliseo Luma: 2
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