Percy Seiger: none of the good ones are free.
Trena Berum: That's a really big question and not simple to answer because there is so much information no single site can encompass it. Ancestry.com is the "best" but is a pay site, but you can usually get a free trial subsciption. It depends how much information you are looking for. I tried the "trial", then subscribed, now I have had a subscription for 3 or 4 years and I'm still looking and finding new information. Sometimes you can find free information if your State or County have a Historical Society site. Some County's and State's provide much larger amounts of information than others. Depending on where you are you may not find much information at all on line. Sometimes a good "free" can be Google....Show more
Laveta Fathy: There are many loose assets at such a lot libraries. At my neighborhood library I signed up for entry to different loose family tree assets that I can get to from my house via the! library internet site - nonetheless, ancestry needs to be performed on the library. All loose besides printing. Not loose however valued at the $25 or much less to buy final years loved ones tree database, it comes with a three month or longer subscription to Ancestry, that is a satisfactory deal. The loved ones tree database is an exceptional instrument for retaining and printing out information. in your loved ones....Show more
Joeann Hoyt: You can try www.geni.com if you want to start you own family tree on the internet. You can ask your family about their ancestors and that way maybe find out something
Coleen Carignan: This is a text file I paste to questions like yours. People ask similar questions 3 - 14 times a day here. You get a long, detailed answer, I don't get finger cramps. It is long because there are over 400,000 free genealogy sites.It is also long because researching your family tree is as hard as writing a term paper in a History class. You don! 't have to be a rocket scientist, but you won't do it with fiv! e clicks.. I could tell you everything I know in 30 minutes, but not 3.If you didn't mention a country, we can't tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. If you are not, please edit your question to add a country. Genealogists from the UK answer posts here too. They are more experienced and more intelligent than I am. I'm better looking and my jokes are better.The really good stuff is in your parents' and grandparents' memories. No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late.You won't find living people on genealogy sites. Don't look for yourself or your parents.So much for the warnings. Here are some links. These are large and free. Many of the! m have subtle ads for Ancestry.com in them - ads that ask for a name, then offer a trial subscription. Watch out for those advertisements.If you try the links and don't find anyone, go tohttp://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.htmlIt repeats each link, but it has a whole paragraph of tips and instructions for each one.http://www.cyndislist.comCyndi's List has over 250,000 sites.http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_se...The Mormon's mega-site.http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...RootsWeb World Connect. The links at the top are advertisements. They mislead beginners. Ignore them and scroll down.http://www.rootsweb.com/RootsWeb Home.This is the biggest free (genealogy) site in the world.http://www.ancestry.comAncestry has some free data and some you have to pay for. http://www.usgenweb.netUS Gen Web. Click on a state. Find a link that says "County".http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?Surname meanings and origins, one of Ancestry's free pages.h! ttp://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cg...Social Security Deat! h Index. Click on "Advanced". Women are under their married names. They are under their maiden names in most other sites.http://find.person.superpages.com/USA Phone book, for looking up distant cousins. http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgiCalifornia Death Index, 1940 - 1997. http://www.genforum.comGenForum has surname, state and county boards. http://boards.ancestry.com/Ancestry has surname, state and county boards too. They are free.Readhttp://www.tedpack.org/goodpost.htmlbefore you post on either one.Read the paragraphs about query boards onhttp://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.htmlbefore you search them. http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.plRoots Web Mailing List Archives.Readhttp://www.tedpack.org/maillist.htmlif genealogy mailing lists are new to you.Off the Internet, some public libraries have census image subscriptions. Many Family History Centers do too. FHC's are small rooms in Mormon churches. They welcome anyone interested in genealogy,! not just fellow Mormons. They have resources on CD's and volunteers who are friendly. They don't try to convert you; in fact, they don't mention their religion unless you ask a question about it....Show more
Mack Ukich: http://www.cyndislist.com/ ... is a good general site to get you startedrootsweb.com http://www.familysearch.org/
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