I am looking for an "honest" and good background search website.?

Question

How can I find a background search website that is "real," and will result in actual searches (and results) of records I could not otherwise access?

I am actually trying to locate full names, and possibly birth places and dates of distant family members for genealogical purposes. I have 'some' very specific information, and I have tried EVERY common genealogical website, paid and unpaid. I have more than a dozen names I am searching for and ordering the actual birth records would be many hundreds of dollars (I have checked).

Answer 1

Click on one of the links at www.v1g.org. They will direct you to a pretty good background checking site with cheaper prices then what you're saying(my mother used it before to check on my stepdad). Good luck

Answer 2

If you are willing to pay ancestry.com can give you all this information you can also join your local library and access ancestry that way as well.

hope this helps

Answer 3

How many of your direct line ancestors have birth certificates? !!

The normal genealogy standard is that BIRTH CERTIFICATES are commonly restricted to specific persons, and if the persons are living, you technically have no legal authority to those. They would be controlled by governmental standards (which are getting stricter all the time).  The normal standard policy for genealogical sites are that they will not include such info.. as it violates a persons' rights to privacy, or governmental authority.

The idea that birth certificates are "public" record, acessible to anyone, is a common misconception.

Having said that... in order to find records for your ancestry, you have far more success in thinking in terms of case by case basis, rather than one stop shopping.  Meaning... you need a record for grandmother, who died in Alabama in 1895.. will be completely different than a relative who was born in Calif in 1943. For SOME, there will be alternative sources. Perhaps this person had social security, and you can order that file (yes..that one does cost $27 each).  OR.. some states (not all) MIGHT have a site that has death records online, but only for a certain time frame, which your person may or may not fit.  SOME genweb pages have great volunteers, who have transcribed every cemetery in the county (and offer photos to boot).. while the one next door has little more than the address to the local library, and a board for "searching this surname".  

I apologize, if this is not meeting what you had hoped or expected to find, or what some websites advertise to offer. The more you break it down into puzzle pieces to find, instead of one finished painting, all at one website, the more success you have.

Answer 4

If you know of actual birth certificates, you are searching in current times!

You can always utilize the public libraries...or these sites:

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...

http://www.usgenweb.com/

http://www.census.gov/

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.ukgenweb.com/

http://www.archives.gov/

http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/...

http://www.cyndislist.com/

http://www.geni.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:

http://www.associatedcontent.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.