Is there a website that will help me find info on my ancestry for free if my father is a Korean War veteran ?
No. There are free sites for genealogy, but you have to do the work yourself and they don’t ask about your father’s war record. Here:
There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. I have links to some huge ones below, but you’ll have to wade through some advice and warnings first.
This is a text file I paste. People ask your question 3 – 14 times a day here. By pasting, you get a long, detailed answer, but I don’t get cramps in my fingers from typing.
Researching your family tree is harder than downloading a pop song. It is about as hard as researching a term paper in a History class. You don’t have to be a Ph. D., but you won’t do it with five clicks. Many people stop reading here and pick another hobby.
If you didn’t mention a country, we can’t tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. I’m in the USA and my links are for it. If you are not, please edit your question to add a country. Or, better yet, delete it and ask again, this time putting in the country. Genealogists from the UK answer posts here too. They are more experienced and more intelligent than I am. I’m better looking and my jokes are funnier.
The really good stuff is in your parents’ and grandparents’ memories. No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960′s by smuggling herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late.
You won’t find living people on genealogy sites. Don’t look for yourself or your parents. Crooks can use your birth date and your mother’s maiden name to steal your identity. If your parents were married in June and your oldest brother was born 4 months later, it isn’t anyone’s business, which is another reason living people’s dates are not on public sites.
So much for the warnings. Here are some links. These are large and free. Many of them have subtle ads for Ancestry.com in them – ads that ask for a name, then offer a trial subscription. Watch out for those advertisements.
If you try the links and don’t find anyone, go to
http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html
It repeats each link, but it has a whole paragraph of tips and instructions for each one.
http://www.cyndislist.com
Cyndi’s List has over 250,000 sites.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
The Mormon’s mega-site.
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
RootsWeb World Connect. The links at the top are advertisements. They mislead beginners. Ignore them and scroll down.
http://www.rootsweb.com/
RootsWeb Home.
This is the biggest free (genealogy) site in the world.
http://www.ancestry.com
Ancestry has some free data and some you have to pay for.
http://www.usgenweb.net
US Gen Web. Click on a state. Find a link that says “County”.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?
Surname meanings and origins, one of Ancestry’s free pages.
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi”
Social Security Death Index. Click on “Advanced”. Women are under their married names. They are under their maiden names in most other sites.
http://find.person.superpages.com/
USA Phone book, for looking up distant cousins.
http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi
California Death Index, 1940 – 1997.
http://www.genforum.com
GenForum has surname, state and county boards.
http://boards.ancestry.com/
Ancestry has surname, state and county boards too. They are free.
Read
http://www.tedpack.org/goodpost.html
before you post on either one.
Read the paragraphs about query boards on
http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html
before you search them.
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
Roots Web Mailing List Archives.
Read
http://www.tedpack.org/maillist.html
if genealogy mailing lists are new to you.
Off the Internet, some public libraries have census image subscriptions. Many Family History Centers do too. FHC’s are small rooms in Mormon churches. They welcome anyone interested in genealogy, not just fellow Mormons. They have resources on CD’s and volunteers who are friendly. They don’t try to convert you; in fact, they don’t mention their religion unless you ask a question about it.
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