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Cyndi'sList!.com is a website with links to many other websites!.

Ancestry!.Com is probably the best for the total amount of original source records online!. However, don't expect to find everything online!.

Have you talked with your family and found out if any has any old family bibles, also, birth,marriage and death certificates!. Depending on the religious faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates can be helpful!.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons!. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection!. This FHCs can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee!.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell!. I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources!. Just call the nearest Mormon Church or visit their free website, FamilySearch!.org, to get their hours for the general public!. Probably while you are there you will have an excellent opportunity to talk with other researchers and sharing ideas and experience is how most of us learn!.
Rootsweb and FamilySearch!.org are 2 sites that have good tutorials on family history!.

Warning: Information in family trees on ANY website must be viewed with caution!. They are seldom documented or they are poorly documented!. Documentation is the meat of genealogy!. Frequently, you will see different info on the same people from different subscribers!. Then you will see the absolute same info on the same people from different subscribers, but that is no proof at all the information is correct!. A lot of people copy without verifying!. The information should be used as clues only to where you might get the documentation!.

I have been giving this warning for a couple of years on this board!. A week or so ago, I was looking at a family tree on Ancestry!.Com and found out that me, my younger sister and my brother-in-law are all dead!. The dates of death were not given but we died in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey!. The only time my sister and I were ever in New Jersey was in 1956 when our family traveled through New Jersey going back and forth from New York!.

Then I found an uncle who had been married three times as he was widowed twice, married his second wife in New Jersey!. She was the sister of his first wife!. She really must have been some gal for a farmer from Gonzales County, Texas to travel all the way to New Jersey to marry her in 1891!.

Then I got to checking and found out ancestors on both of sides of my family were married and died in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey!. My ancestry is primary southern American colonial!. There are a couple of exceptions!. I had some family that immigrated to Savannah Georgia from Ireland after the uprising of 1798!. I also had a set of great great grandparents along with my great grandfather that immigrated through the Port of New Orleans in 1853!.

Now, if the subscriber had submitted the tree to any of the other websites, Genealogy!.Com, Rootsweb, FamilySearch!.org etc it would have been accepted!. You can make up an entirely fictitious family tree and it will be accepted by any of the websites!. If you disagree on information that a subscriber has on any of your family members, the owners of the websites will tell you that that is between you and the other subscriber!.

There is an advertisement for Ancestry!.Com running on TV!. When the woman mentions finding her grandfather's WW1 draft registration card, she is talking about a good original source record!. But when she starts talking about finding family in a family tree someone has submitted, I want to scream at her, "have you verified the information!?"

If you have set up your tree in the Public Member Tree or the Personal or Private Member Tree, their system will give you hints!.
If it is a record just be sure it is on the same person!. However, if it is hint from another subscriber's family tree, don't automatically add spouses and children to people in your tree just because someone has them in their tree!. It is important to have a good verifiable family tree not getting as many names as possible in your tree!. The tree I found that had all the errors has almost 150,000 names!. This is a problem with the internet!. A lot of people think it is great to have as many names as possible in their tree and as a result errors are being multiplied all over the internet!.
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I have to say that I agree with Shirley 100% about family trees I have found online!. I do have a subscription to Ancestry!.com, and I have it because of the access to all the original documents!. My tree only has a little over 1000 names, so far, but I have over 800 document citations for them!. (some documents will be used for more than one person, especially census records!. One record documents all members of the family listed in it!.) That is what you need to look for when viewing trees, and Ancestry seems to be one of the better ones that I have seen at listing the documentation with the person on the public trees!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Please only use the internet as a tool!. There is a lot of bad research out there!. The only way to be sure your info is correct is to document your work with birth, death, marriage certificates, obits, cemetery records!.

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