Locating ancestors???? help please!!!?

Question

is there a free site on the internet to search for your ancestors and when they lived and your geneology and DNA and all that type of interesting stuff?????

thanks sooo much♥

Answer 1

Go to your local government office.  I also go to local cemetaries, and libraries.  Start with some of your older relatives.

Answer 2

If you know the approx dates and location for ancestors you can look them up on "cindis list" or the family search section of the "later Day saints" genealogy site but this site does give you great death results as they believe you don't die,both sites are free good luck I caught the bug about 5 months ago and joined a site to get census records it is worth the money

Answer 3

I like Google as the best free site, I enter an ancestor's name in quotes and if someone has already done some work I get a skeleton tree to research on RootsWeb and more names to add to my tree. If that fails I will Google cousin's names, wife's name's, etc. ( with all the different spellings I can think of).

For free DNA testing I used the Sorensen Group at: http://www.smgf.org/ it will take up to a year to find out the results. You will have to search your surname till you find a match for yourself then those are your markers, they don't send the results to you directly. Can you believe an absolutely free DNA genealogy test? but it is free. They ask for a four generation pedigree but give them what you do have they can expand and verify it. If your grand parents are alive you can ask them and if not you may go beyond the 1900 cutoff. Check it out!

Upload your markers to y-search http://www.ysearch.org/ and use the search there to find and contact genetic cousins. The web is a great place to do research and with time you learn to spot the bad research like children born after the mother was 45 or before she was 15 or after the fathers death (something is missing there).

I love to do this, if you do also you will have a lifelong hobby. :-)

Answer 4

familysearch.org/

Answer 5

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.

I have heard that some programs offer free DNA testing, but don't know if it is true or whether still offered for free.

Answer 6

Last stuff first.. yes, it is FASCINATING to search your ancestors. For most of us, it turns into life long addiction, so be warned now. *smile*

For the first part, there are thousands of sites online where you can search, but ALSO sites that tell you what records you can use, and how to find them offline.. because they won't all be online.  The most basic way to explain this.. pull out your birth certificate, and starting with you.. you have just documented who your parents are. Next, document your parents to their parents.

That covers it, broadly.  Use documents.. work from present backwards, and build on what you find in the more recent to "point" to earlier records. Example..grandma's death certificate says she was born in Georgia. Now you know.. Georgia is where to hunt for her family.

THINK RECORDS, not websites, ok? the records will shift and change as you go along.. that is the challenge, to figure where the next record will be. It is usually going to be where they lived. And you know, of course.. they moved.

DNA is liked by lots of people, which is cool. I am not big on it.. it is not near as personal as actual records. Testing dna costs, and the result is broader (ie.. they came from Europe). You can normally find most of that without dna. Just my opinion.