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What's a good website to find my family tree?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1) Talk to your family members and write down full names; birth, marriage, and death dates; and location information.

2) Focus on one name/family at a time and research online. Some of my favorite free sites are:

[Huge LDS Database] http://www.familysearch.org
[For English research] http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
[Social Security Death Index] http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cg...
[Western States Marriages] http://abish.byui.edu/specialcollections...

Browse the message boards on ancestry.com and genealogy.com and even do searches on Yahoo or Google with your more unusual names in quotes (e.g., ??Ebenezer Beetlejuice??). You will be surprised what you find!

3) Visit your library and ask them if they subscribe to ancestry.com or heritagequest.com and also visit a NARA (http://www.archives.gov/) office if you have one close by. You largest and most valuable source of information will be censuses.