Dedra Furguson: Ancestry has probably the most knowledge. You will have to be in a position to get again to 1850 on three/4ths of your strains in 10 - three hundred hours, speread out over as many nights and weekends as you wish to commit to it, if you're white and your ancestors have been within the USA; 1870 if you're black, unluckily. The USA assortment is $159 should you pay yearly, which matches out to $14 or so per thirty days. You would consult with a Family History Center. They are staffed with pleasant volunteers, and, despite the fact that they're in Mormon church buildings, they do not take a look at to transform you. They can exhibit you extra in three hours than we might in every week of questions and solutions....Show more
Toby Women: Census records aren’t that difficult to find but pictures will generally need to come from someone in your family and unless you get lucky and find someone in your line who has done the research you will have to do the ! research yourself. However, it can be an interesting hobby. In genealogy, we document everything. Too many budding genealogist get frustrated and quit because they copied something from someone else’s tree that was improperly documented and later learned they were researching the wrong ancestor. There is an excellent tutorial for those who are new to family research at http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ; I recommend it to everyone starting out in genealogy. After you complete the tutorial, the following is a basic plan and generally only requires the tools that you already have like your computer and Internet service provider. The person you know about is you, so, start with your birth certificate, which has your parents, and then ask your parents for copies of their birth certificates, which will have your grandparents on them. Then if you grandparents are living, continue the process. At some point, you will experience a problem depending on when you grandparents ! or great grandparents were born, in that; birth certificates d! id not exist before the early 1900s. Therefore, you need to get back to 1930 with personal records because those types of records are not available to the public for 50 to 100 years depending on the jurisdiction in which they are held.By copying or ordering these documents, you have gone to relatively little expense and you have three generations plus yourself and you have it documented with primary documents. That will give you 2 parents, 4 grandparents, and 8 great grandparents names to start researching. Now, you can use death certificates, marriage records, census records, immigration records, church records, court records and many other sources to research your ancestry. Your public libraries will most likely have both Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest.com free for anyone to use while at the library and with a library card you should be able to use Heritage Quest at home. Another free online resource is the LDS/Mormon site, which has many free online records at http://ww! w.familysearch.org/ and original documents on their pilot site at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.h... . They have also just added a new Beta site that has a few more databases, which you might find useful http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collection/list . In addition to their online records, they have the Family History Centers where you can go for help with research and look at microfilm and they only charge nominal fees if they have to order something specifically for you . Find a location near you on their website and call to check hours of operation. http://www.familysearch.org/ .Additionally, USGen Web is another free online resource at http://www.usgenweb.org/ . This site is packed with how-to tips, queries and records for every state and most counties within those states. Then, there is Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ a free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames, post queries on the message boards and subscri! be to surname mailing lists.Also, do not forget to check Cyndi’s List! at http://www.cyndislist.com/ and ProGenealogist top 100 genealogist websites at http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101best2009both of these sites have many links for both free and fee based sites....Show more
Gilberto Cratin: If your great-aunt researched the family, ask her where she uploaded it. You may have to apologize for not writing to her more often, and buy her dinner in a place with real flowers and cloth napkins. I can give you some wines to look for. Stag's Leap 2002 cabernet sauvignon is one of my favorites, if someone else is buying.If she didn't, you aren't going to find a site. Your family isn't that interesting to anyone outside of the family. Mine isn't either. You have to be famous before complete strangers will research your genealogy for you....Show more
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