Where is a great place i can get a family tree made?

Question

I don't want to do it myself, i want to pay someone to do it for my husbands birthday. I want it in a nice book, something he can keep forever...does anyone know a website or company where they offer this service? I don't even know where to start to look

Thank you!

Answer 1

The two responses are correct, Ancestry.com does have the ability to build and print a family tree. They often have a free trial if you want to look at the product. The program takes a little getting used to and will be done quicker by someone who is familiar with it. If you don't already have the family history that will also take time to compile so start as soon as possible.

Finding someone to do it is the hard part. I've looked at Ancestry's message boards and no one seems to be posting such a service. Ask people you know, it's surprising who is into genealogy.

Because money is involved I suggest contacting either a local genealogy/historical society or visiting an LDS family history center if you can't find someone you know who's a genealogy buff.  Both can be found by putting you city or county and state followed by the word genealogy in the search engine.

Another possible source is Cyndi's list, search for genealogist for hire and the state you're in. Be specific about what you want and let them know you've heard about the Ancestry book. If you have a book printed by a company it will take a long time and probably cost much more.

Do be careful, most genealogists are great people but there are always scam artists. Do not buy a book that claims to have his family name and all the ancestors, they're very generic and not worth the price.

Answer 2

Hmm I would scrapbook it!  It would look so cute and perfect for memory.  I am sorry I do not know where to get that done.  I don't belive it takes long though to make a tree and some cut outs of photos!

Answer 3

www.ancestry.com

Answer 4

Go to www.ancestry.com

Answer 5

Your "keepsake" would be worthless.

Family Trees are hard to put together. You would still have to provide the researcher much information about relatives, places where ancestors came from, yada yada yada. So you would still end up doing it "yourself". Why pay? It's easier and more accurate to "do it yourself".

I paid $575 to an Internet source to do my Family Tree about 10 years ago. After I received it, I decided to "double check" some of entries with my older relatives. 80% were false and the remaining 20% could be applied to "any family" so I forked out $575 for trash.

I then took it upon myself to begin doing it. It took 7 years and lots of letters, conversations and trips to old cementaries but when I was "done". It was truly a keepsake which I can leave to my children and grand children.

Begin doing it and perhaps in a couple of years you can truly suprise him with a family keepsake. You'd be suprise at how interesting the journey can be.

Answer 6

USA Answer:

Ask at the county library for the contact information of the county genealogical society. (It is probably small enough it isn't listed in your phone book.)

Call the president. Explain what you want and ask if the president knows of a poor but honest widow who would be willing and able to spend "x" hours working on it, where "x" is the amount of money you want to spend divided by $15, cash under the table and you both tell the IRS "Fiddle-dee-dee". You may have to pay $20/hour. Professionals charge $25 to $75 for average work, and really good ones $100.

You would have to provide the PbHW the names, birth years, death dates and maiden names of 3 - 6 people in your husband's tree who were alive in 1930. (The PbHW might be able to find them via obituaries in microfilm, if you live in the same county his ancestors did and you have his grandparents' names and death dates.)

You would have to pay a set fee, name an amount and tell the PbHW you know there are no guarantees. 20 hours is a reasonable amount of time. You won't get back to the Revolutionary War in that time, but she will probably find some ancestors he didn't know about. The more hours you can afford, the more research she can do.

Any genealogy program worth the name will crank out "Ancestors of" reports as RTF files, which you can send to Kinko's to have them print and bind. The "Comb" binding is the on I prefer. It comes with a stiff cardboard cover, not as a hardbound book.

Any genealogist or genealogy service that offers a guarantee is suspect, just as a fishing guide who would guarantee you catch your limit; that is a heck of an incentive to have a confederate buy some lunkers at a fish farm and plant them close to the guide's "Secret Spot".

There are a couple of companies that offer "Smith Family History" books for $29.99. You get a list of people named "Smith" (Miller, Baker, Pack, Rogolinski . . .) who made history, somehow, and a selected list of people with that surname from a nation-wide telephone directory. The books are worthless.

I strongly suspect you wanted to spend $40, not $400. I answered the question you asked, though. As others have said, it would be better to do the work yourself.

Answer 7

Tribalpages.com