Any good Genealogy or Family Tree sites?

I didn't know you were a genealogist, too, Bun! I've been doing research online and in the flesh since I was 14. I think Ancestry is the most comprehensive, useful site for someone who is past the initial phase of exploring the family and into more detailed, obscure work.

The deciding factor is probably how involved (obsessed? ) you want to become with the work and how much you feel is a fair price for the hobby. For as much rainy-day enjoyment as I get out of genealogy, $300 per year for full access is reasonable.

I like Ancestry the most because all relevant source data is presented at once for the person I'm searching. For instance, if I enter "Bevian Brooking", I get any census in which he appeared, military records, links to family histories and user-submitted trees, newspapers, etc. As the search result. Census information is a snap for Ancestry, they have lots of military records, the essential data from SSI and state births and deaths, and old publications, including newspapers (these last can be huge pain, but every once in awhile come up with a gem!

) They've also got a huge forum that can be filtered to email you when someone updates about specific names and locations. There are family trees and stories people have contributed, and the archive of user-submitted photos is growing rapidly. Ancestry recently added filtering criteria so it should only pick up the information for the time period relevant to the person you're researching.

This is a great relief for those of use with Johnsons and Browns to search! It also may be a help in filtering those newspaper stories. I haven't been doing much family history since the weather turned good and the garden needed work.

The LDS physical records are of greater value to me than their online collection, as each family history center has a great library of printed/microfilmed work that can provide additional detail. I've never been harassed about not being a member, and the people have always been helpful and pleasant. Their online stuff - eck.

Always remember that people with less strict research standards than you - and much older data - remain in their databases. There is a well-proven error in one of their two Brookings histories that can lead a new researcher completely astray, a result of incomplete knowledge that was uploaded to the family tree before proof. There it stays.

Be wary. I use every useful source I can think of to research. Old copies of "True West" yielded a narrative account from a great aunt.

Of the details in that story, all I have been able to verify have been substantiated by other records, which gives greater weight to the rest of the data. I've gained insight into the lost years of my great-grandfather because there was a clear gap when Ancestry produced results for him. That insight eventually led me to do an inter-library loan of microfiche for the early days of Rusk prison in Texas, where he had been jailed, then completely exonerated, for a murder he didn't commit.

Now I want to find out who he was supposed to have killed! I've had great luck with Ancestry, and find it has the most comprehensive, reliable information.It's kind of a supermarket, instead of a collection of links. If I were in your shoes, I'd set aside a few research questions and some time, then use the free trial as much as I could for two weeks.

You should have a pretty good idea by then of how well you like it. Ancestry also has research tools online for download, such as blank census forms and research plans, that you might find useful. It's clearly a passion of mine!

If you want any help or other direction, let me know. I'm always happy to share the fun!

It depends on what you're looking for. You can find most, but not all of the information on these sites by yourself--but it takes some digging. If you've thoroughly explored the links on Cyndi's list cyndislist.com/, you might want to try a free trial of one of the subscription sites to see if the information there is useful.Be careful about the auto renewal--most require a credit card to start the free trial.

Depending on your family history you may or may not find them valuable.

Here are some good sites to look at. I would avoid spending too much money on them. I would prefer the FREE ones when possible.

Why spend on a family tree site when there are free ones? Mahalo has an excellent guide on how to create a family tree. How to Create an Online Family Tree mahalo.com/How_to_Create_an_Online_Famil... You should also check out Cyndi's List, as it's the ultimate portal of family tree and genealogy sites: Cyndi's List http://cyndislist.com Geni http://www.geni.com My Heritage http://www.myheritage.com Family Tree Guide http://www.familytreeguide.com Tribal Pages http://tribalpages.com.

Ancestry.com. It's a widely known website which has been advertised on TV for quite some time. There is a 14 day free trial offer which you can find on the first page.

Looking for ancestors from the U.S.? U.S. DELUXE MEMBERSHIP Annual $12.95/month after trial* 3–Month $16.95/month after trial* Monthly $19.95/month after trial eeking ancestors all over the World? WORLD DELUXE MEMBERSHIP Annual $24.95/month after trial* 3–Month $27.95/month after trial* Monthly $29.95/month after trial.

There are many good sites for dealing with genealogy online. In particular I have been having some recent success building and working on editing my family tree with geni. Com, but there are many other sites like it out there that can help you build your tree online, and invite others to join you in the process, add to it, and at very least see it.Geni.Com is free for basic service, but does have a fee for more advanced service that personally I think is rather high.

Other sites that can help you build your family tree online like geni. Com include: ohile.com/ myheritage.com/ kincafe.com/ dynastree.com/ genoom.com/ Most, if not all of them will allow you to upload and download gedcom files which means that if you have already built your family tree on a home-computer based program that can output that format, you can upload it quite easily. Or, you can build your tree on one site and upload it to another.

Make sure to double check the data, however, the way one site interprets a gedcom file may not always display the data correctly; for example, I had one site change the last name of a female relative who had married but not taken her husband's name. Also, some sites and programs may use nonstandard fields, or may not utilize all gedcom format features. I've personally had more success and more ease building my family tree online than with any other home-based program that I have ever played with, that's how easy it makes it.

I've also recently gotten in touch with and invited long lost relatives to join me, and they have done so; something I could not have done easily with a home-based computer program. Of course, there is a place for home-tools as well as online ones. There are also a few sites that will help you reach out to the greater genealogical community such as: werelate.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.familypursuit.com/ Of course a major resource is the LDS church's family research centers... you can check many of their records through http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp but you may have to go to a local LDS research center to see some of the records.

Government records such as census records, military service records, local deeds, birth, marriage, and death records may be available and helpful to you through various methods. It.Geni. Com0 ohile.com/0 Check with the local offices and websites where your ancestors it.Geni.

Com1 (and it's related websites and portals) offers access to the LDS records and other databases at a cost. Personally I would only go to them after you have exhausted all other sources of info and/or if you don't have an LDS center anywhere near you that you can tap for info. ohile.com/1 In addition, access to their information may be available for free at NARA and LDS sites.

Online easy-tree-building genealogical resources may be included in a colloquial term for websites known as 'family 2.0'. This term also includes sites that help families manage and share schedules, calendars, contact lists, pictures, blogs, etc.Etc. Etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family2.0 Of course there are plenty of other sources of information online. One key thing is to do websearches for surnames, maiden names, etc. , or enter those names into portals and sites that specifically offer resources for genealogical research. I would start with online sources, personal knowledge, and records you might already have at home, as well as local city or records of places of worship if your family has been in the local area for ages.

Start building your tree online, talk verbally with any living persons who may know this stuff in person, or on the phone... and once you've gotten your information well-fleshed out, start hunting down others who may be more distant to join you in one of these online services, adding what they can. After you have done as best you can with numerous sources, then I would go to the pay databases for ease of access and possibly access to databases that you might not otherwise be able to tap any other way. However, as I'm sure you know already, there is plenty you can do before you have to spend money on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy I would also recommend scanning in old family photos and documents, and uploading them (at least the photos, not necessarily the documents) to a site such as picasaweb, flickr, etc. Not only is this interesting, and a source of information, pictures of relatives, parents, grandparents, etc.That you may have may be of great interest and a heavily motivating factor for relatives. They may also be a good source of information; check the backs of those photos, and other details in those photos for additional information -- you may find names and alternative spellings, etc. Written on those photos. Many of these tree-building sites also allow the integration of photos into the tree display.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.