What are some other sites like Ancestry.com?

Question

What are some other sites like Ancestry.com, I want to be able to make my family tree online but there are a couple other sites that I had found but I don't want to have to download anything to my computer. Can anyone help me? Please.

Answer 1

Cyndi'sList.com has multitudes of sites.

I think Ancestry.Com is the best for its records.

Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The information is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different subscribers that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.  The information should only be used as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.  Good documentation does not mean someone else's URL or something from One World Tree or Genealogy.Com' World Family Tree.  It means source county, city and state records like birth, marriage and death, church records like baptismal, first communion, confirmation, marriage and death.Cemetery Records.  Court records like wills, deeds etc.

Answer 2

Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...

Answer 3

Ancestry has many features. If all you want is to build a family tree - and you have your data on paper in big boxes, waiting to be entered - Mytribes or something like that lets you build family trees on-line. The exact name and link is in the resolved questions.

If you meant other features:

Heritage Quest sells access to census images.

RootsWeb has volumes of data, as does US Gen Web.

Kindred Konnections, GenCircles, MyHeritage and RW (again) will let you upload GEDCOM files to large, public data bases to compare dead ends with long-lost cousins.

The Mormons will let you download PAF for free. It is a genealogy program. Many people swear by it. The Mormons have bales of data, too.

You can get FTM or Roots Magic for $29 or $39. They too are genealogy programs.

Most serious genealogists have a program on their PC. They have more features than Ancestry's on-line utility does. Doing Genealogy without one is like trying to write a novel using only Yahoo! Mail, not "Word".

Answer 4

If you just want to make your family tree online, try Geni.com. It doesn't have any resources, its just for building your family tree

Answer 5

Most geneologists block living family members from showing up on their sites. You really need a family member to give you as much information as possible, names, birth & death dates, marriages, maiden names, brothers & sisters. The more information you have to start with theeasier it will be. Having said that, I am including links to some of the free sites that I have found useful. I have also just typed in the first & last name, in quotes, of a person I am looking for plus the state if I know it, in my Yahoo! search bar. Your family name can show up in different state histories and records.

Good Luck

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://ancestorguide.com/

http://www.tribalpages.com/

http://www.usgenweb.net/

http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp

Ellis Island passenger list search page

http://www.familytreecircles.com/

http://www.censusdiggins.com/

http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-w...

http://www.genealogybuff.com/

http://www.gencircles.com/globaltree/

http://www.genealogysearch.com/wwwboard-...

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/s...

http://www.genealogy.com/index_a.html

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

http://www.cyndislist.com

           Cyndi's List has over 250,000 sites, some are free, some are not.

http://genealogy.about.com/gi/dynamic/of...

            Access Geneology has good resources for Native American & African American

             research as well as census records, military records and family bibles.

Don't be afraid to get in to some of the geneology forums for your family name. Sometimes that can be very helpful as well.