answers1: I moment Violet and upload: Coats of fingers have been at
the beginning designed so knights might inform each and every
different aside. They got to contributors, now not surnames or
households. If, for illustration, each and every knight named "Smith"
(Carpenter, Baker, Johnson . . .) used the identical coat of fingers,
there might be a crowd of knights driving round with the identical
coat of fingers painted on their shields. It might be as complicated
as a soccer sport wherein each side wore blue uniforms and the entire
avid gamers have been quantity 12. A library is your quality wager.
"Family" crests / C of A are one of the enduring myths in family tree.
answers2: You are correct.............. the place you start is at home
and with you and your own records, and living families
records.............. it gets you back up to 5 generations and you
know you have a great strong CORRECT foundation to your tree, its free
and it teaches you how to research.......... many people now who start
have only ever known the internet so think it is the only way, it is
useful but if you have no idea how to research then you have no idea
how to make sure what you 'find' is real or not........ and
unfortunately many people don't have their tree, they have a
collection of unrelated names.......... <br>
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<a href="
http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>
http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin...</a>
then depends on where the information takes you will depend on what
you need to do, look at............... just remember that unless it is
an image of the actual record then you can't trust that it is
real....transcriptions have errors, you only need one error and you
are no longer researching your tree......... <br>
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For seasoned researchers commercial websites are useful as they save
time, but they should never been the only thing you use. I don't have
a subscription, never have and don't need one as there are many online
resources ( images) and if I wish to use commercial websites then the
library is free and offers them..............
answers3: > Where is a reliable source for starting your family genealogy? <br>
Your parents, unless they drink so heavily they are unreliable. <br>
Your grandparents, ditto. <br>
<br>
> a very very high price, <br>
You can subscribe to
ancestry.com for a year less than a weekend at a
ski resort. <br>
<br>
<br>
So much for typing. Here goes the pasting. <br>
<br>
You should look at the resolved questions. Either browse them or use
the advanced search at least three times, for the words <br>
<br>
Free family tree <br>
free family history <br>
free ancestry <br>
<br>
People ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree,
for free?" 3 - 14 times a day here. All of us top 10 have stock
answers. After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer, the rest don't
bother. All the stock answers are well worth reading. All of us are
warm, wise, witty, well-read and, above all, devilishly handsome. We
have quite a bit of overlap on our favorite links, but we emphasize
different aspects of the hunt in our advice. <br>
<br>
Here is my stock answer: <br>
<br>
There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among them (without http://) <br>
<br>
www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. <br>
www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records. <br>
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entries <br>
usgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USA <br>
vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index,
9,366,786 records <br>
www.findagrave.com - 83 million records <br>
genforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state,
and thousands of surnames. <br>
boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and
surnames too. <br>
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over
30 million messages <br>
<br>
I have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade
through some advice and warnings first. <br>
<br>
If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one
of their international sub-sites, 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. <br>
<br>
If you are in the USA, <br>
AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, <br>
AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, <br>
AND you are white <br>
Then you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with
100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are
black, sadly. Many people stop reading here and pick another hobby.
<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get
back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking
up obituaries and so forth. <br>
<br>
Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to
be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify.
<br>
<br>
So much for the warnings. Here is the main link. <br>
<br>
<a href="
http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>
http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html</a>
<br>
<br>
That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for
a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a
dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A
limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the
links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post
the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the
"new look". <br>
<br>
You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put
too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry
ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet
Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The
query forms on the sites are tricky. <br>
<br>
<br>
If you've read this far, <br>
And you are still interested <br>
And your ancestors were in the USA by 1930 <br>
And you know the names of at least two people (husband and wife,
parent and child) who were living in the same house in 1930 <br>
I'll look for them in the 1930 census to give you a start. <br>
Write to me via my profile.
answers4: Always start with things that you can confirm. <br>
That means starting with your parents and grandparents, since you can
be sure your facts are accurate. Many people make the mistake of
starting with someone they want to find a connection to, and this
leads them to getting bad information. <br>
<br>
Honestly, there are lots of places out there to get information
without spending money. I started looking into my family history about
3 years ago, and I have yet to spend a dollar, but I can now trace my
ancestry back to 1620 in Wales. <br>
<br>
While I know that you don't want to pay money, many sites (like
Ancestry.com) offer free memberships that allow you to at least put
your information together into a coherent format, like a family tree.
<br>
Also, Ancestry does special deals about once every month and a half
where they make some of their records free for a few days in order to
show off the information they have and try and convince people to buy
a full membership. In those periods I've found lots of information,
and they allow you to save it and use it for yourself without paying
for it later if you get it during that period. <br>
<br>
I would also suggest going on one of the genealogy forum websites
(like
genforum.com) that allow people to ask quesitons of others about
certain family names or individuals. I've gotten in contact with
several distant relatives over sites like those, and have been able to
get more information.