How can I find my genealogy without paying money?

Renay Billiar: Get a No Cost Background Check Scan at https://bitly.im/aO7n5 Its a sensible way to start. The site allows you to do a no cost scan simply to find out if any sort of data is in existence. A smaller analysis is done without cost. To get a detailed report its a modest payment. You may not realize how many good reasons there are to try and find out more about the people around you. After all, whether you're talking about new friends, employees, doctors, caretakers for elderly family members, or even significant others, you, as a citizen, have a right to know whether the people you surround yourself with are who they say they are. This goes double in any situation that involves your children, which not only includes teachers and babysitters, but also scout masters, little league coaches and others. Bottom line, if you want to find out more about someone, you should perform a background check....Show more

Janeen Perona: This is just a sampling of what is o! ut there. Your local public library, if it has a genealogy department, can provide 100s more...and that would still be just a drop in the bucket. Here then, is my "short" list:You should start by asking all your living relatives about family history. Then, armed with that information, you can go to your public library and check to see if it has a genealogy department. Most do nowadays; also, don't forget to check at community colleges, universities, etc. Our public library has both www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com free for anyone to use (no library card required).Another place to check out is any of the Mormon's Family History Centers. They allow people to search for their family history (and, NO, they don't try to convert you).A third option is one of the following websites:http://www.searchforancestors.com/... http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739... www dot usgenweb dot com/ www dot census dot gov/ http://www.rootsweb.com/ www dot ukgenweb dot com/ www dot! archives dot gov/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.acc! essgenealogy.com/... http://www.cyndislist.com/ www dot geni dot com/Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's passenger lists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the Philippines, where ever and whatever.Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620, plimouth, massachusetts" as an example.Good luck and have fun!Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites:www dot associatedcontent dot com/article...Then there is the DNA test; if you decide you want to REALLY know where your ancestors came from opt for the DNA test. Besides all the mistakes that officials commonly make, from 10% to 20% of birth certificates list the father wrong; that is, mama was doing the hanky-panky and someone else was the REAL father. That won't show up on the internet or in books; it WILL show up in DNA.I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics Genotype Program....Show more

Jeannine Vassie: I have found it! to be impossible to develop an accurate genealogy with out paying for copies of records to someone.I use to do my own research, looked through thousands of pages of court and other legal documents and to verify information provided my others.It just isn't that way any more. Good Luck, it can be a lot of fun.

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Clementina Collelo: You cannot do your family tree for free, end of. At some point you will have to spend some cash, but in saying that there are ways to control the costs, talk to your family (as many as you can) gather any print red material or letters or diary's any military papers, then draw out a rough tree just so you can see who's who. There are web sites you can use, http://www.ancestry.com which is a subscription site but you might be able access it via your local library, You could also tryhttp://labs.familysearch.orghttp://www.familysearch.orghttp://www.rootsweb.comhope this helps...Show more

Magda Vandergriend: How far you can get for free will depend on how mu! ch you already know about your grandparents and great grandparents, how rare your family surnames are, and where your ancestors came from as the records available vary greatly from place to place. To protect the privacy of the living, some records in the USA are closed for 70 years (100 years in the UK), or you have to pay to see them, so the more information you can get from your oldest living relatives the better - too many of us family historians regret not questioning the oldies closely before they popped their clogs.So talk to all your relatives, ask to see old photographs, records of birth, baptism, death and marriage, family bibles, funeral service sheets, etc, and make copies. Find out where all your deceased relatives are buried, visit the graves, transcribe the information on the gravestones and take photographs.Get all the names, dates and places you can and then check these against the official records. Then you work back one generation at a time, using birth/! baptism, death/burial and marriage records, and the census. Don't just concentrate on your direct line, get all possible info on siblings and cousins too - family history isn't always a straight road, sometimes you have to go sideways to confirm a link to the previous generation.More help with how to begin your research is given on these sites:-http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/frameset...http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/You will want a family history program to record your ancestors as you find them, and to print out ancestor charts, descendant charts, family group sheets, etc. Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is free from familysearch, Brother's Keeper is shareware, and RootsMagic is available in a usable trial version. Download all three and see which you prefer:-http://www.familysearch.orghttp://www.bkwin.org/http://www.rootsmagic.com/You might like to search the World Connect project at Rootsweb to see if anyone has already done research on your ancestors (v! iew these trees with caution as much of the 'research' is suspect - ver! ify anything you find by consulting the original records before incorporating the data into your family tree, and this is true of any data you find online):-http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/I will give you the link to Cyndi's List, which is a comprehensive directory of worldwide genealogy sites, though you may find it rather daunting until you are more experienced in genealogy:-http://www.cyndislist.com/Make a family history folder in your Bookmarks or Favourites and put all these sites in it for future reference. Here's another one for you:-http://usgenweb.org/When you have identified what you are looking for and where, come back and ask some more questions. In the USA for instance, the records available vary depending on the state and county. Even in the British Isles it depends whether your ancestors came from England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland, and it also helps if we know which county. Give us specific details and we can direct you to the specific sites which will be ! most helpful, or even look things up for you on the paid sites....Show more