Can I start genealogy research at the library?

answers1: You are confusing some terms. <br>
"Building your family tree" (or RESEARCH) HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
COMPUTER. <br>
Research is the process of FINDING documents and knowing from the
records, who you are related to. What you are referring to, is PUTTING
information onto (any) website in order to store or view it. <br>
BECAUSE you are new, it is totally the LAST THING you should be doing. <br>
An "uploaded family tree" is not research, it isn't a record. Your
grandma's birth certificate is a record of her, and who her parents
are. It is one piece, of thousands of pieces of information that tie
together. You find those pieces in NUMEROUS places. The most rational
means to STORE THAT INFO is a genealogy program, kept on your own
computer at home. That way, the info remains under your control,
especially when living persons are included. Their private info should
never be online, because is risks both id theft and their privacy.
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Ancestry has uploaded family trees, which is what you are considering
doing. Take it from me and other long experienced persons.. those
"trees" are notorious for being incorrect. <br>
You can use the ancestry.com website at the library, to find RECORDS,
rather than paying for subscription. Please, don't fall for the
advertising that ancestry.com is the only site for research. Don't
assume that all records are even online.
answers2: I went to the Sutro Library in San Francisco, armed with a
list of ancestors and other people I was interested in, sorted by
death county. The Sutro has over 8,000 county history books, the kind
people paid to be in 1880 - 1920, more or less. I found puff
biographies for about a dozen men. <br>
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It depends on the library. Most county libraries have some genealogy /
local history at their main branch.
answers3: Download some free FH software onto your own computer and
back it up on a pen drive, which you can take to the library and then
use, add to as well as having it available to you at home............
it is not good practice or safe to build your tree online and
especially on websites that you have no account with so can't access
them at home, apart from the fact that as soon as you put anything
online it belongs to the website to sell, use as they wish ... there
are several free ones in this section "General Family History
Resources" on here <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/apps/links/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/apps/link...</a>
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I have used the library addition of ancestry and it is great for what
it is ......... (I am ONLY interested in images of the real records)
not all the copy and paste trees, indexes that in the main you can
access elsewhere for free if you want to or transcriptions., but you
can access all of those if you wanted to.........