Comments on: How to start to find ancestors? http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html A rewarding hobby that connects you with your past. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: braves squaw http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html/comment-page-1#comment-475 braves squaw Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:50:13 +0000 http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html#comment-475 Start with your parents and move on to your grandparents and great-grandparents. Ask your aunts & uncles & cousins on both sides. Chances are, someone has already done the work for you. Post what you know here, and maybe someone, who has a membership to a genealogical site, can help you with a few lines of ascent, to point you in the right direction. ancestry.com has a free 14 day guest offer and rootsweb.com is free. Start with your parents and move on to your grandparents and great-grandparents.
Ask your aunts & uncles & cousins on both sides.
Chances are, someone has already done the work for you.

Post what you know here, and maybe someone, who has a membership to a genealogical site, can help you with a few lines of ascent, to point you in the right direction.

ancestry.com has a free 14 day guest offer and rootsweb.com is free.

]]> By: Teri D http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html/comment-page-1#comment-476 Teri D Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:50:13 +0000 http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html#comment-476 Go to Ancestry.com to do some research...also, there is a link through there for the LDS church...they've been cataloguing births and deaths from hundreds of years ago. Go to Ancestry.com to do some research…also, there is a link through there for the LDS church…they’ve been cataloguing births and deaths from hundreds of years ago.

]]> By: Crys H. http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html/comment-page-1#comment-477 Crys H. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:50:13 +0000 http://www.howtomakefamilytrees.com/how-to-start-to-find-ancestors.html#comment-477 I started by making a tree on Geni.com so I could keep my info. straight. They have a few people on there, so you might find someone who is connected to your family tree. FamilySearch.org is a great place to start. Genealogy.com and Ancestry.com get rave reviews usually, but they require a subscription. MyHeritage.com is FANTASTIC!!! Registration is free, and it searches through a couple thousand databases. Most, if not all, of these sites will have links to other genealogy sites you can sift through. I've also gotten lucky a couple of times just websearching "<so-and-so> family tree"--sometimes you'll find that someone else has already done the research!! I'm still a newbie at this (one month in), and I already have two lines that go back to the 1500s and one that goes back to approx. 1100!! I'd love to help you if you need it--just send me an e-mail! marykay.lady@yahoo.com I started by making a tree on Geni.com so I could keep my info. straight. They have a few people on there, so you might find someone who is connected to your family tree.

FamilySearch.org is a great place to start. Genealogy.com and Ancestry.com get rave reviews usually, but they require a subscription. MyHeritage.com is FANTASTIC!!! Registration is free, and it searches through a couple thousand databases.

Most, if not all, of these sites will have links to other genealogy sites you can sift through. I’ve also gotten lucky a couple of times just websearching "<so-and-so> family tree"–sometimes you’ll find that someone else has already done the research!!

I’m still a newbie at this (one month in), and I already have two lines that go back to the 1500s and one that goes back to approx. 1100!! I’d love to help you if you need it–just send me an e-mail! marykay.lady@yahoo.com

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