answers1: If you haven't researched it, it's not your genealogy and I
mean that in the best possible way but you can't just copy names off
the Internet and call it a family history. A few years ago there were
almost no source documents available online at "free sites" now more
and more are being added daily. A good place to start is U.S. GenWeb
at: <a href="http://www.usgenweb.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.usgenweb.org/</a> they have a
page for every state and every thing is free. Also, I would be remiss
if I didn't mention FamilySearch.org they have many online records
that are free and are digitizing more every day. Their website is: <a
href="http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/WebSites/frameset_websites.asp"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/W...</a>
Also, 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: <a
href="http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/browse.asp?id=8"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/browse.asp?id=...</a>
answers2: 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.
answers3: actually, most of the best places DON'T want money...
because they are not tagged as "genealogy". You might be limiting
your thinking by wanting "one best site" to begin with. The pay
sites, except for ancestry.com, pretty much hook you in by the idea
that they are doing the work for you. You might find an ancestor in a
library site, or a civil war site.. but they are not labeling as
genealogy. <br>
One way to break out of that idea, is to think about genealogy as
RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS. Not family trees online.. many of which are
incorrect or unreliable to start with. Pretend that gr grandma has
never been researched/ uploaded by anyone.. and consider what kind of
records you need to learn about her. Example.. death certificate,
census, family pictures, obituary, her father's will names her...etc
etc. MANY OF THOSE ITEMS WILL NOT BE ON THE INTERNET. <br>
Google is a free site. I have pulled up tons of persons by searching
their name with quotes "John Jones" Indiana.. to force it to look for
the exact name and the location. For some, it even pulls up old books
that google has digitized, and you can download the entire book. Or,
"Oak grove cemetery" dallas is another example of googling a
location, then seeing that someone might have surveyed and uploaded
all the burials there. It won't tell you which relative is yours.. you
need to know enough that you know who is likely to be there, and
recognizing it when you see it. If you need an obituary from 1975, it
probably won't be online. Instead.. you can google the town and
newspaper..and send an email to find where their archives are
(probably the town library). <br>
My opinion is that one of the biggest brick walls is that people are
looking for family trees..instead of looking for a marriage record for
a certain couple who lived in Jasper co, Missouri. Or another way to
put it.. look for puzzle pieces (which can be scattered all over, on
and off the internet) and not looking for the finished puzzle. <br>
We are free, by the way. If you give enough data .. looking for death
date for Jim Smith, who was married to Sally Jones in 1872 in <insert
location>... we often can find that. By looking at the sources used..
you start seeing the path taken to find information.
answers4: There are some free sites, but I have found more actual
records on Ancestry.com, and they get more all the time. <br>
I have been researching my family, off and on, for over 40 years. It
has been the last 5 or 6, though, that I have been able to obtain the
most information and documentation. During that time, I have been able
to get back to the 1630s with any accuracy for my one grandfather's
mother's line, but only his father's name as it was on the marriage
record for his parents in 1877; my one grandmother's lines on both her
mother's and father's sides to the mid-1800s; the other grandfather's
lines back to England in the early 1800s; the other grandmother's
lines to Scotland in the mid 1800s when they came to Canada. These
are the documented ones. I have stories about some, and I have some
undocumented information on others. <br>
I have found trees that have some of the same people on them that
claim to go back even further, but those trees lack documentation, and
some of the information contradicts information that I have
documented. Some of the information in those trees contradicts itself,
when you start to really look at them.
answers5: This is one issur where I'm not that smart--oh I've kept the
family minutes over the last 40 yrs for the reunuion but this stuff is
above me. Several people on Yahoo/Answers researched for me and that
was one of the happiest times in the last year! I have a friend here
in town and she did a book on my family geneology ---all four lines of
it---for my sister and I was so impressed I ordered a book too. After
reading through it I asked her if she would do a book on my husband's
geneology and she was alredy working on it when I asked her. I am
really impressed what all these people can find out. <br>
<br>
Granny i don't know the free sites at all. Sorry
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