I would love to find out more about my ancestors. But all family tree websites a

Question:Please don;t answer with ," Just ask your family!" i would love to join those sites that you find all about your family tree and such, but I need somewhere free! Plz help!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Please don;t answer with ," Just ask your family!" i would love to join those sites that you find all about your family tree and such, but I need somewhere free! Plz help!!

Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can use. Ancestry.Com has lots of records. 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.

FamilySearch.org and Rootsweb are two excellent free sites.

If you find some of your family lines, don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid.
The information is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info by any different subscribers on the same people that is no guarantee it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. The information should only be used as CLUES as to where to get the documentation. There are errors in family trees on the internet. I understand there are some people who have fun making up things to see how many people will copy.

Also, for instance, if a person has Family Tree Maker and a subscription to Genealogy.Com, they can merge other people's trees into theirs and then upload the merged tree into various websites including back to Genealogy.Com. When people do that they are more intested in collecting a lot of names and not quality research. Unfortunately, Genealogy.Com encourages it.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has records of people all over the world, not just Mormons. They are free to use but you need to find out their hours for the general public. 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 to convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else who has used their resources.

You start with youself and work back one generation at a time, documenting everything. First you should get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. They might be confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might turn out to be very significant. So tape them if they will let you. Try to get family to show you their birth, marriage and death certificates and make copies. Also depending on the faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation, marriage certificates are valuable resources of information. That is what family history is made of, good documentation not someone else's undocumented work.

At your public library and the Family History Center you will have contact with other reseachers and sharing ideas and experiences is how people learn.

Libraries have databases for geneology sites that you don't have to pay for, because the library pays the fees. If you live in a fairly large metropolitan area, you should be able to find out more this way. And if not, your library has connections to the other libraries, and can help you that way.

try ancestry.com its kinda messed up and cunfusing but many of my peeps said its great

Try these free sites:

rootsweb.com
familysearch.org
genforum.com
cyndislist.com

There is not some magic website where you can just type in your name and your whole family history will be revealed.

Sometimes you are lucky and find that someone closely related to you has done all the hard work of creating a family tree, but the bottom line is that usually if you want to find out about your history you will have to do some research yourself.

Do start by asking the older members of your family- the information they give you will be free.

Have a look at this website, it has hundreds of links and information about genealogy.

www.cyndislist.com

Shirley said it all. She said (and I reiterate strongly) don't take all and everything you see on genealogical sites as 'written in stone'. Unfortunately, when some folks grab everything and anything they see and compile it as their own, it only muddies the waters for those of us who really care about searching and researching our own lines. This is not an easy hobby, believe thee me!