How do I Find Out More About my Family History?
I have a start , but I still cannot find out what I want to know. My parents don't want to pay for ancestry.com but I really want to know about it and so do they. How do I find out about my family and my lineage?
GOOD Website where i can find my family in jamaica?! PLEASE HELP!?
www.craigslist.org www.go-jamaica.com www.listjamaica.com www.jamaicans.com www.vibesconnect.com www.caribsingles.com www.hi5.com www.facebook.com www.myspace.com There are not any sites dedicated to finding people, but there are sites that allow you to post an ad for free. The best you can do is find some people in Jamaica and see if they would be nice enough to help. Good luck!
What website can find my family ancestry for free?
Short answer is NO there is no website free or fee that will enable you to find your ancestry, websites have a tiny amount of records or transcribed databases and none of them have enough to enable you to find all your ancestry and PROVE it is your ancestry......................... however there are many that are free and some of them have some good information ( all needs checking thought back to records) anything online that shows trees already done...be cautious they are uncited collections of names and not to be trusted at all http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin... this is free, it will get you back 3-5 generations at home and with trusted records and then the links page will give you a few free websites many which have images of records
What is the best Free Family Tree website?
geni.com WAS the best free site up until last week. unfortunately, they changed their policies which means they now SUCK as a free site. Ancestrytrees.com is still a very good free site to host your family tree. If you want to self publish IE load your own GEDVIEW etc get some free space on the Rootswebsite. If you have a small ytee MyHeritage offer a really good free service. However, if you tree exceeds 500+ then they will ask for $$$
Good free ansertory website?
You should start by asking all your living relatives about family history. Then, armed with that information, you can go to your public library and check to see if it has a genealogy department. Most do nowadays; also, don't forget to check at community colleges, universities, etc. Our public library has both www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com free for anyone to use (no library card required). Another place to check out is any of the Mormon's Family History Centers. They allow people to search for their family history (and, NO, they don't try to convert you). A third option is one of the following websites: http://www.searchforancestors.com/... http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739... http://www.usgenweb.com/ http://www.census.gov/ http://www.rootsweb.com/ http://www.ukgenweb.com/ http://www.archives.gov/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... http://www.cyndislist.com/ Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's passenger lists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the Philippines, where ever and whatever. Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620, plimouth, massachusetts" as an example. Good luck and have fun!
How would I start tracing my family history?
If you don't have much family knowledge, I would begin by looking at one of the big sites like Ancestry.com. They offer several things that would require a lot of effort otherwise. The two biggest things areThey offer the possibility of connecting with distant relatives you didn't know that you had. They may have family trees already built for some sides for your family. You may even know them, but didn't know that they were interested in genealogy.The bigger sites have many digitized documents from all over the world and they're growing everyday. These include census, birth, marriage, and death records as well as documents from enlistments in wars. You can get dates, places and other relatives from these form. Speaking from personal experience, I found out that my paternal grandfather had actually immigrated from modern day Ukraine, even though we thought he was born in the US and his family had emigrated from Germany. It turns out that they had left Germany around 1790 going via Hungary to then Imperial Russia and then in 1909, emigrated to the US. That is one small example of what you can do with only electronic research. I wouldn't say it is easy because people have wrong information in their trees, multiple people have the same name, people change the spellings of their names, etc. But it is very doable these days to learn things about your family that you had knowledge of.You can gain additional information by using genetic testing services like 23andMe, which will give you an ethnic breakdown of yourself benchmarked to ethnicities of 500 years ago. This let me connect to a previously unknown third cousin, who let me get back an extra generation in time and subsequently, let me trace back an additional 3 generations.
What are websites in which you can research the history of your family?
Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records (ancestry . com) - I think it’s a paid subscription type of thing, but they usually offer a free trial so you can explore things for a couple weeks. Pretty good records from what I understand.
Are there any free websites to search for my family tree?
Resources will vary depending on where and when your ancestor lived, what records they left behind, and what is available for that place/time. Not everything is online and/or available for free. Go as far as you can with free resources. Eventually you may have to pay for a document to get any further. Make a note of it and set it aside until you want to pay for it. In the meantime, research another line in your family or local histories to get a better feel of your ancestor's lives. Some helpful general resources: http://www.cyndislist.com/ 1000s of links by topic. Start with How To and Genealogy Standard and Guidelines. https://www.familysearch.org/ Use the links/headers for Learn, Records, Catalogs, and Products. http://www.censusfinder.com/ http://www.deathindexes.com/ U.S. only http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/ U.S. only, not everything is free http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Some free information Google - look for local GenWebs, archives, genealogical societies, agencies, etc. Visit your local library, genealogical library, Family History Center, etc. Some of these will provide free access to subscriptions sites and databases like ancestry.com, footnote, and Heritage Quest. Stick around here. Questions are cheap and we may know of resources that will help with specific ancestors. To do it accurately follow the basic process for genealogy: 1. Interview your living relatives 2. Examine your documents 3. Prepare for research by learning about basic genealogy, genealogy specific to your known ancestors, and organizing your data. 4. Research one document at time for one generation at a time for one person at a time. Records of genealogical value will help you connect one person to the next (for example by naming a parent, then you can move on to examining the parent's records). Avoid user-submitted trees/pedigrees except where they have sources cited. Go to the original source. Try to find original documents. Indexes and transcriptions are more likely to have errors.