What is a website that we can look up genealogy?

answers1: > first one to answer with a website that works will get
best answer. <br>
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So, you prefer speed to quality? Some of us type slowly. You have at
least one that works now. Why would anyone bother to give you more?
answers2: 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). <br>
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). <br>
A third option is one of the following websites: <br>
<a href="http://www.searchforancestors.com/..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.searchforancestors.com/...</a>
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<a href="http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739..."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739...</a>
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www dot usgenweb dot com/ <br>
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www dot census dot gov/ <br>
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<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.rootsweb.com/</a> <br>
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www dot ukgenweb dot com/ <br>
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www dot archives dot gov/ <br>
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http://www.familysearch.org/ <br>
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http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... <br>
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http://www.cyndislist.com/ <br>
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www dot geni dot com/ <br>
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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. <br>
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Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620,
plimouth, massachusetts" as an example. <br>
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Good luck and have fun! <br>
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Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites: <br>
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www dot associatedcontent dot com/article... <br>
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Then there is the DNA test; if you decide you want to REALLY know
where your ancestors came from opt for the DNA test. Besides all the
mistakes that officials commonly make, from 10% to 20% of birth
certificates list the father wrong; that is, mama was doing the
hanky-panky and someone else was the REAL father. That won't show up
on the internet or in books; it WILL show up in DNA. <br>
I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics
Genotype Program.
answers3: You can try the LDS Family Site, or you could contact you
local genealogy or history society, they are usually more than willing
to help people get started.
answers4: there are thousands of them. They work if you know how to
use them, and have patience to use more than one. <br>
www.rootsweb.com has a tutorial on finding ancestors and records.
answers5: Ancestry has the most data. You should be able to get back
to 1850 on 3/4ths of your lines in 10 - 300 hours, speread out over as
many nights and weekends as you want to devote to it, if you are white
and your ancestors were in the USA; 1870 if you are black, sadly. The
USA collection is $159 if you pay annually, which works out to $14 or
so per month. You might visit a Family History Center. They are
staffed with friendly volunteers, and, even though they are in Mormon
churches, they don't try to convert you. They can show you more in 3
hours than we could in a week of questions and answers.
answers6: I'd say that almost all of them want to sell something. It
is their reason to be. But they usually offer a variety of resource
that you can take advantage of. I suggest you take this from one, that
from another one, and make your own research. It becomes really funny!
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I think the best one is FOOTNOTE.COM (<a
href="http://go.footnote.com/genealogy.php?xid=425/)"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://go.footnote.com/genealogy.php?xid...</a>
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I listed a couple more that I used sometime.
answers7: If you want a good verifiable family tree, it requires work,
not just putting in a name and there it all is. If you saw
information on your mother's family and her ex husband in a family
tree, you don't know if the information is accurate or not. <br>
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There are lots of websites. Ancestry.Com has been recommended. It
isn't free but your public library might have a subscription to it you
can use for free. <br>
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However, you must distinguish between their excellent original source
records and their subscriber submitted family trees. Family trees on
ANY website must be viewed with caution. They are subscriber
submitted, by folks like you and me, very seldom documented or poorly
documented. You frequently will see different information on the same
people from different subscribers. Then you will see the absolute
same information on the same people from different subscribers, but
that doesn't mean it is correct. Too many people copy without
verifying. If you disagree with information someone has posted on
some of your family, those that run the websites will tell you that is
between you and the other subscriber. <br>
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Ancest;ry.Com has all the U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and
later are not available to the public yet. They have lots of military
enlistment and draft records. Also many immigration and land records.
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They have transcribed the records but you can view the original images. <br>
There are errors in their transcriptions, particularly censuses, but
when you view the originals you will pity the transcribers. <br>
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A good free source is a Family History Center at a Latter Day
Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the
world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's
largest genealogical collection. Their FHCs can order microfilm for
you to view at a nominal fee. <br>
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I have never had them to try and convert me or have I heard of them
doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. A lot of
their volunteers are not Mormon. Just visit their free website,
FamilySearch.org, to get the hours for the general public for the
nearest Mormon FHC. <br>
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If you haven't done so get as much information from living family as
possible. Interview your seniors and tape them if they will let you.
Find out if any has any old family bibles. Ask to see and make copies
of birth, marriage and death certificates. Depending on the religious
faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage
certificates from their church can be valuable.
answers8: If it is so very important, get a subscription to ancestry.com <br>
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Otherwise try this <br>
<a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.cyndislist.com/</a>
answers9: Your public libraries will most likely have both
Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest.com free for anyone to use while at
the library and with a library card you can use Heritage Quest at
home. <br>
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Another free online resource is U.S. GenWeb at: <a
href="http://www.usgenweb.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.usgenweb.org/</a> they have a
page for every state and everything is free. Then there is Rootsweb at
<a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/,"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/,</a> a
free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames and
leave queries on the message boards. Additionally, I would be remiss
if I didn't mention FamilySearch.org they have many free online
records and are digitizing more every day, all free. Their website is:
<a href="http://www.familysearch.org/."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/.</a> Be sure to
check each state that you need information from as many have their own
projects, for example, the state of Missouri has a great website that
has many free source documents online at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/
and South Carolina has many free wills at
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinear… <br>
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Also, do not forget to check Cyndi's List at
http://www.cyndislist.com, which has many links for both free and paid
sites. <br>
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I'm sure I could come up with a lot more but that should keep you busy
for a while and I think your question was what is a website that we
can look up genealogy for free…there should be lots of family history
to be found for free with all these websites.