Does anyone know of a REAL free Family Genealogy website?


there excellent tutorial new family research @ http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ; starting out in genealogy should understand basics , tutorial covers them. after complete tutorial, following basic plan , requires tools have computer , internet service provider.

person know you, so, start birth certificate, has parents, , ask parents copies of birth certificates, have grandparents on them. if grandparents living, continue process. @ point, experience problem depending on when grandparents or great grandparents born, in that; birth certificates did not exist before 1900s. however, need 1930 personal records because types of records not available public 50 100 years depending on jurisdiction in held.

copying or ordering these documents, have gone relatively little expense , have 3 generations plus , have documented primary documents. give 2 parents, 4 grandparents, , 8 great grandparents names start researching. now, can use death certificates, marriage records, census records, immigration records, church records, court records , many other sources research ancestry. public libraries have both ancestry.com , heritage quest free use while @ library , library card should able use heritage quest @ home.

free online resource lds/mormon site, has many free online records @ http://www.familysearch.org/ , original documents on pilot site @ http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsear... . in addition online records, have family history centers can go research , @ microfilm , charge nominal fees if have order or make photocopies . find location near on website , call check hours of operation. http://www.familysearch.org/ .

additionally, usgen web free online resource @ http://www.usgenweb.org/ . site packed how-to tips, queries , records every state , counties within states. then, there rootsweb @ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ free site hosted ancestry.com can search surnames, post queries on message boards , subscribe surname mailing lists.

also, sure check each state need information many have own projects, example, state of missouri has great website has many free source documents online @ http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/ , south carolina has many free wills , other court documents @ http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/search.aspx

also, family tree magazine’s 101 best websites, 2010 http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-best-websites-2010 may have register free newsletter access list find helpful also.

, site included on list has links free , not cyndi’s list worth time through list free websites because of quality: http://www.cyndislist.com/

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