What sites are good for looking up genealogy?

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What sites are good for looking up genealogy?

Ok so i need help because i need to find out my family history and apparently no one in my family knows anything. I have been getting different answers from everyone that i talk to, so i need somewhere else to go. Does anyone know of any websites (preferably free) that i can go to to find out this stuff?

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. ancestry Have a look at the site below,
http://www.familysearch.org/ completely free.
http://www.cyndislist.com/ genealogists directory.
http://www.ancestry.com/ paid membership with free trial option.
Hope this helps. I like Ancestry.Com for the records.

Now you must be very very careful about taking as fact information in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is submitted by folks like you and me. Most is not documented. You might see repeatedly the same information on the same person by many different submitters. Don't let that make you think that it is correct. A lot of foolish people are copying without vefifying. There are errors in family trees on the internet.

Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation.

Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 is not available to the public yet. They have U.K. censuses also.

But again, don't trust everything you see in Ancestry.Com's family trees. They have 3 programs for public use. Ancestry World Tree,which is their oldest and largest. One World Tree which they should Deep Six. It' awful. Public Member Tree which I am now finding it a joy to work with.

Call your nearest Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church and find out if they have a Family History Center. 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 Center can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.

They don't bring up their religion and they won't send their missionaries by to ring your doorbell. They are just very nice and helpful.

Cyndi's List gives a lot of websites. You might find some are valuable.

Good Luck!