What is a site where I can look up my family history?

Question:There are many websites, Ancestry.Com, Rootsweb, FamilySearch.org and the list goes on.

However, don't rely totally on websites. Information in family trees on any website must not be taken as absolute fact. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is 100% accurate. A lot of people copy without verifying. Use the information as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.

Get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you.
It might turn out they are confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very significant.

Go to your public library and find out what all they have. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can use.
Ancestry.Com has lots of records and seem to be getting more all the time. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930.
The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have U.K. censuses also.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church is a resource. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard that they have done this to anyone else either.

Documentation is very important in genealogy. You will need vital recods, births, marriages and deaths. Most of these contain both parents' names including mother's maiden name. Now, in the U. S. each state has its own laws as to who and when a person can obtain birth and death records. Also, in many states, governing bodies(state, county,city) did not start recording vital info until the first quarter of the 20th century. Even once they started a lot of people who were born at home or died at home did not get recorded. Without those records, you can turn to churches, for baptisms, first communion, confirmation, marriage and death. In many faiths those contain parent information.

The application for a social security number that I have seen and the death certificates gives not only the parents' names and mother's maiden name but their places of birth.

Social Security went into effect January 1, 1935. If a person was drawing social security at the time of death and on their own social security number, you probably will find them on the Social Security Death Index. Rootsweb and FamilySearch.org, two free sites, and Ancestry.Com has the SSDI.

Good Luck!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There are many websites, Ancestry.Com, Rootsweb, FamilySearch.org and the list goes on.

However, don't rely totally on websites. Information in family trees on any website must not be taken as absolute fact. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is 100% accurate. A lot of people copy without verifying. Use the information as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.

Get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you.
It might turn out they are confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very significant.

Go to your public library and find out what all they have. They might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can use.
Ancestry.Com has lots of records and seem to be getting more all the time. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930.
The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have U.K. censuses also.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church is a resource. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard that they have done this to anyone else either.

Documentation is very important in genealogy. You will need vital recods, births, marriages and deaths. Most of these contain both parents' names including mother's maiden name. Now, in the U. S. each state has its own laws as to who and when a person can obtain birth and death records. Also, in many states, governing bodies(state, county,city) did not start recording vital info until the first quarter of the 20th century. Even once they started a lot of people who were born at home or died at home did not get recorded. Without those records, you can turn to churches, for baptisms, first communion, confirmation, marriage and death. In many faiths those contain parent information.

The application for a social security number that I have seen and the death certificates gives not only the parents' names and mother's maiden name but their places of birth.

Social Security went into effect January 1, 1935. If a person was drawing social security at the time of death and on their own social security number, you probably will find them on the Social Security Death Index. Rootsweb and FamilySearch.org, two free sites, and Ancestry.Com has the SSDI.

Good Luck!

i think its called ancestors.com or ellisisland.com

No it's called ancestry.com

http://www.rootsweb.com

http://www.ancestry.com

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