Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Do you know any of your distant relatives?” plus 3 more |
- Question: Do you know any of your distant relatives?
- Question: What a good free site I can go on to look up my ancestry and the history of my family please help?
- Question: Free search for South Carolina death certificates?
- Question: Are DNA ancestry tests like 23&me legit?
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| Posted: 11 Aug 2016 01:21 PM PDT You should look at the resolved ("Discover") questions. Either browse them or use the advanced search at least three times, for the words Free family tree People ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree, for free?" 3 or 4 times a month here. All of us top 10 have stock answers. After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer, the rest don't bother. All the stock answers are well worth reading. All of us top 10 are warm, wise, witty, well-read and, above all, devilishly handsome. We have quite a bit of overlap on our favorite links, but we emphasize different aspects of the hunt in our advice. Here is my stock answer: There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites, but 1) They don't pay Google to come up in first place. You have to pay attention to those words, "Ads" in VERY small type, and ignore those results. 2) Some of the free ones have ads, which ask you for a name, then take you to a pay site. You have to pay attention to the form. In either case, if you don't pay attention, you'll end up on one of those sites where the search is free, but seeing the results costs you money. They are dishonest, in my opinion, but they didn't ask my opinion. 3) With very rare exception, all the free sites do is give you data to let you research your tree. They won't show you your tree. The exception is when someone, like your great-aunt, has done the work and uploaded it. Among those free sites (without http://) www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. I have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade through some advice and warnings first. If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one of their international sub-sites, we can't tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. If you are in the USA, No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late. You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking up obituaries and so forth. Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify. So much for the warnings. Here is the main link. http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in the "new look" from August 2008. You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The query forms on the sites are tricky. If you've read this far, (I've made that offer since 2012; so far, no one has taken me up on it. I suspect no one reads this far.) |
| Question: Free search for South Carolina death certificates? Posted: 10 Aug 2016 02:45 PM PDT Missouri, West Virginia and Arizona are the only states that have death certificates for free. www.familysearch.org has some from assorted states. Almost all of them are over 50 years old, for privacy. You can try the on-line version of your friend's hometown newspaper. Some leave obituaries up for 7 days, some for 30, some for 365. You can try what Google calls an exact phrase match, using quotation marks and different forms of the name. (Double quotes, not apostrophes), plus "Obituary", which doesn't need the quotes: "Tom Edison" Obituary |
| Question: Are DNA ancestry tests like 23&me legit? Posted: 10 Aug 2016 02:30 PM PDT |
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