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Position:Home>Genealogy> Does anyone know how to begin tracing your family history?Question: Does anyone know how to begin tracing your family history?What would the cost of this be? And where do I get started, court house, a historian, what's needed to get started? Have you done it or know of anyone who has? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Family Search http://www.familysearch.org Search the Family History Library's database, which contains millions of names from thousands of family trees. GenCircles http://www.GenCircles.com Searching the global tree and viewing results is free to everyone. In addition to first and last names, the database is searchable by dates and places of birth, baptism, marriage, death, and burial, as well as by the names of an individual??s father, mother and spouse. GeneaNet http://www.geneanet.org A database that indexes all the world's genealogical resources, whether Net-based or not and whether free or fee-paying. Free On Ancestry http://www.freeonancestry.com/ A directory of all the FREE records and resources available on Ancestry.com. Ancestor Hunt http://www.ancestorhunt.com Index of Free Genealogy Search Engines Find Your Family Tree http://www.findyourfamilytree.com... A free genealogy web site designed to help you find missing branches of your family tree using Pedigree Resource File (PRF), a rapidly expanding collection of family trees submitted by people worldwide to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. GenealogyBuff.com http://www.genealogybuff.com Search for your surname in dozens of family history databases with one click. Though you still have to visit each site to see the results (or find out your search came up empty), GenealogyBuff.com can be a good starting point for online research. USGenWeb http://www.usgenweb.org The USGenWeb is one of the premier sites for US researchers. Here you'll find Web pages for every US state and county. AncestralFindings http://www.ancestralfindings.com... AncestralFindings may not own every database you're interested in, but its collection is impressive. Holdings include CD-ROM records of births, deaths, marriages, census indexes, land records, passenger lists, immigrations and Genealogy.com's entire World Family Tree collection. |