answers1: If you want to trace your ancestry, Ancestry.Com is probably
the best for total amount of records online. <br>
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But family trees on ANY website, whether free or not free, must be
viewed with caution. They are not submitted by some expert working
for the websites who just go around doing other people's family trees.
They are submitted by folks like you and me. In other words, they are
subscriber submitted and there are errors. Don't expect to find living
people in family trees as that is considered an invasion of privacy
and can lead to identity theft. <br>
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You might see different info on the same people from different
subscribers. Then you will see the absolute same info on the same
people from different subscribers, BUT that is no guarantee at all it
is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. The information
is useful only as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.
Documentation is the source of good genealogy, not copying what some
distant cousin in your family has uploaded to a website. <br>
Most of the trees online are not documented or poorly documented. You
can make up a family tree and it would be accepted by Ancestry.Com or
any of the other genealogy websites. There is absolutely no way they
can verify all the information in family trees subscribers submit.
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Whether a family history is online or in a published book, you should
look for the documentation to back it up. There is a lot of
speculation and jumping to conclusion, I'm afraid. Good documentation
is not another person's URL. <br>
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However, Ancestry.Com has all the U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940
and later are not available to the public yet. They have U.K.
censuses through 1901. They have military, immigration, land and
other records. They have indexes to vital records(birth, marriage and
death) of many states. <br>
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Genealogy is not a matter of putting a name in a website and up there
is your total family tree without errors, all done for you. <br>
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The internet websites can be a useful tool in genealogy. However,
don't expect it to be the soul source of your family history. It is
addictive. It probably will take you many years and you still want to
find more information. <br>
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Ancestry.Com has more than one family tree program if you choose to
use it to put your family information in it. I use the Public Member
Tree and I enjoy it. There oldest program was Ancestry World Tree but
it looks like it has been discontinued. One World Tree is trash. If
you use the Public Member Tree or the Private Member Tree, their
system will notify you of records that they have that probably apply
to your family members. However, they will also notify you of people
in One World Tree. Watch it. Don't automatically accept any names in
your family tree unless you have verified it. They are just providing
you with information from someone else's family tree. <br>
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When they set up One World Tree, they took information subscribers had
put into Ancestry World Tree and tried to combine people with all the
different information they had on that one person. However, I have
seen more than once they have combined two people into one. Why they
haven't scrapped that program, I don't know. <br>
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I find the Public Member Tree a joy to work with. <br>
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You should be the person who ultimately decides what is valid and what
isn't from the reseach and documentation you get, not somebody else's
family tree. <br>
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Your public library might have a subscription to it you can use before
purchasing a subscription yourself. That way you will have a chance to
experiment and get familiar with it. <br>
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answers2: Unless someone in your family has a tree on a paid or free
site, there isn't a specific tree on the Internet with your name on
it. <br>
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<a href="http://www.familysearch.org"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org</a> is a free
site and a great place for a beginner to create a family tree. <br>
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<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.rootsweb.com</a> is also free,
and is owned by ancestry.com. <br>
It's a Q&A forum and ancestry subscribers use it frequently to
research their ancestors and to share info with others. <br>
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Ancestry.com will cost you $159.40 annually. <br>
A one month subscription will cost about $20.00. <br>
It's very worthwhile, to me. <br>
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Most public libraries subscribe to a genealogy site, which is free to
library cardholders. <br>
The library isn't always open when I want to research. <br>
They limit my time on the computer and I have to pay for printing any
documents I find. <br>
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The length of time it takes to do the research, depends on how much
information you want to find and how much time and effort you're
willing to put into it. <br>
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