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Link to: Family Search This site allows you to look up family members and existing family trees. You can even enter what you know and build your own family tree. See how you hookup to other members whose ancestry may be more complete. |
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Gramps is a free software project and community. They have a free genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists. |
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Link to: Ancestry.com Ancestry is one of my main sources for genealogical information, including information about specific individuals, documents, records, photos, and more. Ancestry is a subscription site, but they give a free trial period for new subscribers. Please Google Ancestry.com and read about the different plans that are available - monthly, 6-month, 12-month. There is also much more information about the various services you can find by searching. Should you decide to subscribe, be sure to look online, or call them directly, and ask what specials they have. My experience is there is usually a special deal to be had that may or may not have been in their advertising. Ancestry also has DNA kits for sale. I think they now have the largest database of DNA results in the world. Those with family trees will be matched with others who share certain amounts of DNA. This is often a source for finding relatives/ancestors you may not have known you had. Ancestry also owns Fold3 (military records), and Newspapers.com. Sometimes subscribing to the last two separately will get you more information. I do, but genealogy is mostly what I do, so it seems worth the price to me. You get a special rate when you are also an Ancestry member. |
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Link to: WIKI Tree In my case, 30-minutes of searches lead to 7 generations of documentation. This site is a collaboration of many genealogies contributed by members. Easy free searches. |
