Family Genealogy Question!?

Question:I am looking for information on places in the USA to go to find my family's genealogy. Please do not include the online search engines. They haven't done a thing to help me. (I've tried that.) Thanks.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I am looking for information on places in the USA to go to find my family's genealogy. Please do not include the online search engines. They haven't done a thing to help me. (I've tried that.) Thanks.

If you want actual, physical places to go (not online,) then find the nearest Family History Center (see familysearch.org for locations of their libraries.) Actually, your own library can probably help you -- either with their own materials or by ordering materials for you via InterLibrary Loan. Finally, the mecca of family history research is Salt Lake City, Utah, but I think you should start off with something more "introductory" first! Good Luck!

Try this:
http://www.ancestorhunt.com/mormon_churc...

I've had good luck with it, and my name is very common.

If you are not having luck online, you should go to the area that they lived. A lot of towns or countys have Historical Societies that have information. Also, all the ones that I have been to have been very helpful in helping find the reconds I need.

Hope this helps.

I know you said don't include online, but I have used ancestry.com and it was AMAZING! and accurate! I'm assuming you are looking for something that is free since there is a fee to use ancestry.com. I got a free trial for a few days.

Other than that, you can go to the Mormon church. They have genealogy books or something. Just be careful not to get sucked into their false doctrine. It's very important to them to keep accurate genealogy records so they can baptize by proxy (baptizing on behalf of someone who's already died) which is COMPLETELY unbiblical.

Have you tried the Mormon's files? They do genealogy searches and do them well....

First your living family. Particular your old folks. Tape them if they will let you. What might seem insignificant might turn out to be very significant. See if they have any old family bibles. Check for birth, marriage and death certificates.

Your public library.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. 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.

They won't try to convert you, at least they haven't tried to convert me.

Websites are fine. Ancestry.Com has lots of records. However, family trees on websites are user submitted, mostly not documented, or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different submitters that is no guarantee it is correct because people copy.

Also if a person has, for instance, Family Tree Maker and a subscription to Genealogy.Com, they can merge other people's trees into their and then they upload the merged tree into various websites. They just want a lot of names and really don't have provable research.

Here is a contradictory statement... you won't find all of your genealogy online. At the same time, there are thousands of research sites, and you CAN accomplish a great deal, using the internet.
http://www.cyndislist.com/beginner.htm
cyndis is not a search engine, but a collection of thousands of resources.
I have to ask..is it possible that you are new to genealogy? One expectation in new research is finding "recent" information. For the most part, specific info on your parents, grandparents, so forth, is very unlikely to be online, due to privacy protection reasons. Although that info is critical to building a good foundation.. in the first part of the process, you normally would work with documents within your family, or those which you (or your parents/ gr parents) WOULD have authority to access, but not necessarily on the internet.
My other suggestion is that I have a hunch you are looking for a broad family tree. The answer is that if you went (physically), the place to go is the locality where they lived.
Break down the specifics of what you need, by individual persons. For example.. you have 4 grandparents. To find information related to grandpa Jones, you first need some record of his place of birth.. his death certificate should give his parents names, and place of birth. You would thus focus your search ON THAT PLACE. Each county in the us has a genweb site, with genealogy information for that county.
Although it is a fee based site.. ancestry IS the one place which has ALL the US census records. If yours is a US family, I would be very surprised to not find at least some of your ancestors there.
I suggest that if you post a particular thing that you are looking for on here.. one of us would be able to come up with an answer. As long as you have gotten at least some names, dates or places, then we can suggest where to look.