What are some good family history and genealogy sites?

first of don't expect online. want find websites have records, not family trees. information in family trees on website, free or fee, must viewed caution.
subscriber submitted folks , me. internet has been big boon genealogy errors have multiplied big time because of people copying other persons' family trees.
see different info on same people different subscribers. see absolute same info on same people different subscribers, doesn't mean accurate. many people copy without verifying. information can useful clues documentation. 1 genealogy website encourages, or @ least use to, people merge other's family trees own downright sloppy genealogy. information in family trees find online can helpful clues documentation.

favorite ancestry , if find pricey, public library might have subscription can use free. . ancestry.com amount of records have obtained , put online still must distinguish between records have obtained , subscriber submitted family trees. have several family tree programs , 1 feel trash 1 world tree program. saw few days ago used "one world tree" documentation. when set took information people had submitted old ancestry world tree program , combined different info people had on same person one. however, have seen @ least twice combined 2 people 1. records don't think ancestry.com can beat. have u.s. censuses through 1930. 1940 , later not available public yet. have military, land , other records. not records online ones find save time , money. when go website prefer go under "old search" can pick out specific records want search.

have transcribed records can view original images. there errors in transcriptions when view original images pity transcribers.

here link links many other websites, free , fee. , some, particularly have family trees, don't care @ all.

http://www.progenealogists.com/top50gene...

source family history center @ latter day saints(mormon) church. have records on people on world, not mormons. in salt lake city, have world's largest genealogical collection. fhcs can order microfilm view $3. have never had them try , convert me or have heard of them doing else has used resources. nice , helpful , lot of volunteers not mormon. visit free website, familysearch.org, hours general public nearest mormon fhc.

if haven't done should information living family possible. don't expect find living on genealogy websites can invasion of privacy , can lead identity theft.

interview old folks , tape them if let you. won't won't confused or wrong on things.
however, story telling might not bother write down , in stories clues later on break through brickwall in search. people have done have gone , listened tape again after doing research , have heard things didn't hear first time around.

find out if family has old family bibles. ask see , make copies of birth, marriage , death certificates , depending on religious faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation , marriage certificates church can helpful.

i russia , have sister got adopted separately , through anther agency. want able know agency , lives now.

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