Where would I find some good web sites for looking up ancestry?

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Where would I find some good web sites for looking up ancestry?

I am doing a heritage scrapbook and I would like to include as much information as I could about my relatives but most of them have passed away so I thought I might research online which with my obsessive personality as started a new hobby.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hey sherrelu3...,

There are some really great sites. If you look at the surname list, and use each surname at GENFORUM you can find various people interested in the same surname. I found old family pictures that way. Obituaries, while morbid, provide a great source of information about a persons life, personality, and relations. Cemetary pictures and stone rubbings, give good information too. Here are some sites you might like. Note that many are free. You can get pictures of ships from Ellis Island, copies of the Manifest too, for the people that may have had passage. Birth, Death, Marriage certificates are great in a scrapbook because they show the chain of relationship (parents are listed). You can get them from a variet of locations.