Esteban Faggett: There are many unfastened assets at such a lot libraries. At my regional library I signed up for entry to different unfastened family tree assets that I can get to from my dwelling via the library internet site - nonetheless, ancestry should be performed on the library. All unfastened besides printing. Not unfastened however valued at the $25 or much less to buy final years household tree database, it comes with a three month or longer subscription to Ancestry, that's a fine deal. The household tree database is an exceptional device for retaining and printing out data. in your household....Show more
Olin Hallin: Your family name and your genealogy isn't the same. When surnames were assigned or taken in Europe during the last millennium it wasn't impossible for legitimate sons of the same man to wind up with a different surname and still each could have shared his surname with others with no known relationship. Therefore the root person of your sur! name will not necessarily be the root person of someone else with your surname. Also, you have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents,16 great great grandparents and it doubles up each generation you go back. Only one person in each generation will have your surname unless one or more married someone else with your surname.A library is one of the places to start. If you find Ancestry.Com too pricey, your public library might have a subscription to it you can use for free. What is so good about Ancestry.Com is the amount of original source records they have obtained and put online. Now you have to distinguish between the records they have put online and their subscriber submitted family trees. Ancestry.Com has ads running now. When a woman finds her grandfather's WW1 draft registration card that is a good original source record. When someone finds their family in a census that is also a good record. However, when a man finds his family in a family tree going back ! before the Civil War, that is not a record at all but somebody! 's submission to Ancestry.Com. Information in family trees on ANY website, free or fee, must be viewed very cautiously. Even when you see the same information on the same people from many different subscribers that doesn't mean for one moment the information is correct. Too many people copy without verifying. The information can be useful as clues only as to where to get the documentation.You can make up an entirely fictitious family tree and it will be accepted by any of the websites. There is absolutely no way they can check all the information people submit. If you disagree with information that someone has on one of your family members, those that run the websites will tell you that is between you and the other subscriber.Here is a link with links to other websites, some free and some fee. I feel the ones that only have family trees really aren't all that useful.http://www.progenealogists.com/top50genealogy2008....If you haven't done so you should get as much informatio! n from living family as possible. Find out if any has any old family bibles. Ask to see and make copies of any birth, marriage and death certificates they might have. Depending on the religious faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates from their church can be helpful. Interview your senior member and tape them if they will let you. I won't say that they won't be confused or wrong on some thing. However, they just might get into telling stories of bygone days you wouldn't write down and in those stories can be clues that will later help you break through a brick wall in your research. People who have done this state they have gone back and listened to the tape again after doing some research and have heard things they didn't hear the first time around.No way are all records online but the ones you find will save you time and money. Don't expect to find information on the living online as that can be an invasion of privacy and can lead to iden! tity theft.A good source is a Family History Center at a Latter Day Sai! nts(Mormon) Church. 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 FHCs can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee of about $3.I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. Just visit their free website, FamilySearch.org, to get the hours for the general public to the nearest Mormon FHC.Actually FamilySearch.org has a new pilot program where they are transcribing and putting online their records. I believe they have just scratched the surface. This is a free service. Once they get through they just might blow all the other websites out of the water.http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.h......Show more
Sheldon Lally: If you want to look up your surname and see what it means and what origin it is, then a good one would be ancestry.com. If you want to look up where people f! rom your surname came from, go to familysearch.com.P.S. I don't know how Shirley can be the top contributer when she didn't even help you....Show more
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