How do i find my family tree?

Question:

How do i find my family tree?

is there a website?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Dont expect to find your family tree on the internet. You might find some of your family lines. However, you have to be very very careful about taking as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid.

The trees are submitted by folks like you and me. Most of the information is not documented. You might see different information from different submitters on the same person. Then you will see the same information over and over again by different submitters on the same person and no documentation. All too often, this means people are copying without verifying and there are errors in 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 which has lots of records. They have all the U. S. Censuses through 1930. The 1940 is not available to the public yet. They have U. K. censuses also. Still be careful about taking as fact information that are in family trrees, particularly their "One World Tree."

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 Centers can order microfilm for you to view for a nominal fee.

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

Cyndi's list give a lot of websites. You might check it out. But again don't expect to BINGO and find your family tree on the internet and if you do you need to verify the information.

Also the first poster gave some valuable advice. Get as much information from living family members as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. It might turn out that they are confused on some things, but what might seem to be insignificant story telling and ramblings might turn out to be very important. Us old folks like to talk about old timey.

Good Luck! start by getting info on all your living relatives - parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins - birth dates, marriage dates, spouse names, death dates - then ask them about any dead relatives they remember or have info on There are 250,000 or so sites. Look in the resolved answers.
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Best wishes! Your family tree starts with you or your children. Then start looking at the generation before you and so forth. You can eventually start looking at websites that are helpful like Roots Web. years ago, as the internet exploded, it was predicted that persons would be able to just enter their name and find their history. And many commercial sites jumped on board.. hoping to convince persons that they could do just that.. for a small fee, of course.
It was a poor expectation then, and that has not changed.
Can you find your ancestors online??? absolutely. That is not the same as what I call a "canned" genealogy, where all the research is done for you. A comparison might be finding one website that you can log onto and they will have gone out and played a round of golf for you. They had all the fun, so what's the point? Or, they went out and went bicycling for you.
I like to send new persons to www.cyndislist.com for making them aware of the thousands of places you can use to do the research. And yes, there are many excellent tutorials for beginners.
IF all you want is to find your complete family tree, all done and packaged for you, I am not much help. The fun is in the doing and finding, and the process. Even if you find your family tree on line it would probably just be a chart. Talking to your elders and locating documents is usually a much more rewarding experience.