Are there any free online sites that you can search your genealogy.?
I know that with ancestry.com it cost to continue searching. I heard there is a site that is free any help would be appreciated.
There are but you have to be careful even on ancestry.com You have to realize that the information put there is by people who do research and they want answers…and take anything to help them through without documentation. You want that documentation to PROVE your heritage..and it is difficult.
Ancestry.com is really good. You get a month free there and you can do a lot if you put the time in….
I have been doing mine and my hubbys for the last 40 years…if you have a MORMON church near you call them and ask where the nearest mormon church is that can help you. They do it for free and will get microfiche and microfilm you can view. They are the worlds BEST record keepers and even today they travel the world documenting and copying ALL church records, state records etc.
Every year more is released too and they help you for FREE. I did that for years with them….and they gave me documentation and records from churches from over 200 years ago on my ancestors…it is amazing to see. Many records were destroyed during wars…but many are still there and many were copied before destroyed. The mormons do this free of charge.
SO CALL THEM….they are amazing in helping!!!!!
Start with your family…listen to everything they say…document everything they say…you never know when something small will turn into something big. Such as when my grandfather told me his father was bootlegger. But we had a hard time proving anything until we found a ships manifest roster that showed he was imprisoned for bootlegging on the ship coming over from Yugoslavia bringing his sister over.
My great grandfather had 9 siblings and he came here first. His only way to get them out of Yugoslavia during the two world wars and the concentration camps (we aren’t jewish but jewish people weren’t the only ones tormented)…was to bootleg whiskey to make money. He brought EVERY ONE of his family members over with bootleg money. The only sister that didn’t get here was one that had his others sister son with her and the ship was not allowed to dock because the quota was filled. They were directed to S. America and they never saw them again. It was sad…but they got them out of the concentration camp and into safety.
so listen to everything and every little fact….everything is important…don’t over look any fact…no matter how small. It can help…decades later like it did me.
When I say be careful…I was doing my husbands family tree and someone had the same tree and went back to 247 …come on…there is no documentation back then…only stories and no proof. It MIGHT be true but you don’t know that..and you don’t have documentation to prove they are ancestors. HE is not related to a gladiator and pope and some bishops etc. He isn’t even Catholic….someone was having fun and posted it. Some of what they have is true..but the documentation ends and there is no way to prove it goes that way…..I only keep what I have records for. I can document back to the late 1500′s and that is it….I am still looking as Ancestry.com has some newly released records…and I am looking at them.
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