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A good site for geneology?

i wanna find my ansetors and i want a free and easy to use site i think it would be cool to learn more about my family.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I know just the place. Around your kitchen table with your parents and grandparents, maybe your only expense will be coffee and pie. Or wine and cookies.

Frankly there are expenses associated with genealogy just as there are with any other hobby. Once you get the full names, dates and places of births, marriages and deaths from your living ancestors, you order the documents and that means fees and postage. At that point you'll get more names and dates from the docs and will have about covered the 20th century so you can begin historical research. Nearby family cemeteries may also give more information, dates, names, pay attention to who's buried close by.

Count on your main library and nearest LDS family history center for resources. You'll need to pay for copies you make for your files, maybe transportation and parking. Key in all you have learned onto genealogy software for organization.

At that point you'd be ready to begin looking into genealogy sites online and maybe decide what's going to be more useful and how much or if you want to subscribe - for instance, some of ancestry.com resources are free but you may like access to the best census images and you can prowl from at home in your bare feet. Rootsweb.com is supported by ads, and then there is also familysearch.org. Those are some to get you started.