Are There Any Ancestry Websites That I Can Go On For Free?
I am trying to research on my ancestors and have found no websites where i can search for free. On ancestry.com they have a free trial but they still ask for your credit card number and i don’t have one. The guy i am searching is Raphael Kenneally. His wife’s name was Maud and he served in World War 1. He’s not famous, just my grandma’s dad. So if you have any documents on him can you please send them to me thanks.
Maud Boxliter was her name. and i am seaching in th US.
Many public libraries have Ancestry.Com which their patrons can use for free.
If you expect to find your family tree all prepared and correct on any website, you are viewing it wrong.
Look for websites with records, not necessarily family trees. I don’t care if the family trees are on Ancestry.Com, Rootsweb, FamilySearch.org, Genealogy.Com they usually don’t have documentation to back them up. They are usually submitted by folks like you and me, the subscribers. Even if you see the absolute same information on the same people from many different subscribers, don’t think for one moment the information is correct. Too many people copy without verifying. The information can be helpful as clues only as to where to get the documentation. Genealogy is about records/documents.
Here is a link with 50 links to websites, some free and some fee. Those that only have family trees I feel aren’t worth a tinker’s curse.
http://www.progenealogists.com/top50gene…
I believe Ancestry.Com has the most records online than any website. Now you still must distinguish between the records they have obtained and put online and their subscriber submitted family trees. It might be wise to use it at your library and get use to it before paying for a subscription. When I go into their website, I prefer to go under “old search” on the right on a bar on top. That way I can pick out specific records I want to check on and not waste my time with things I don’t care to check on at the time.
Not all records are online but the ones you find will save you time and money.
Also don’t expect to find information on the living as that can be an invasion of privacy and can lead to identity theft.
FamilySearch.org has a pilot program where they are putting Mormon records online. The Mormons have the largest genealogical collection in the world, not just on Mormons. I believe once they are through with his program they might put all the other genealogical websites in the shadows. They are trying to get people online to volunteer to help transcribe the records. The website is
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsear…
But the first thing you should do is get as much information from living family as possible. 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 also yield parent information.
Interview your senior family members and tape them if they will let you. I won’t say that they won’t be wrong on some things. However, they might get into telling stories of bygone days you wouldn’t write down and in those stories can be clues which will later help you solve a puzzle. People who have done this say they have gone back and listened to the tape again after doing research and heard things they didn’t hear the first time around.
A good 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 fee of about $3. I have never had them to try and convert me nor 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 to the nearest Mormon FHC.
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