what's the best genealogy website?

answers1: cindi's list <br>
<a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.cyndislist.com/</a>
answers2: There are over 500,000 free sites devoted to genealogy on
the Internet. Which is the best depends on your heritage. The best
Irish genealogy site in the world wouldn't be much good to a
Frenchman. It also depends on whether you are willing to pay a
subsctiption fee or not. <br>
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Researching your family tree is about as difficult as writing a term
paper in a high school History class. You don't have to be a rocket
scientist, but it isn't as easy as looking up the capital of Peru. If
your great-aunt has already done it and posted her line on the
Internet, you might find a line from your (dead) great grandfather all
the way back to Charlemagne tonight, without any work. <br>
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If not, you will have to do the work yourself. Most teens don't want
to spend the time. If you are interested, read on. <br>
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These are large and free. Many of them, however, have subtle ads for
Ancestry.com in them - ads that ask for a name, then offer a trial
subscription. Watch out for those advertisements. <br>
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<a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.cyndislist.com/</a> <br>
(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed. If you want Welsh or Pennsylvania
Dutch or Oregon or any other region, ethnic group or surname, chances
are she has links for it.) <br>
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The LDS site and the RWWC here would be the places to look for Great
Aunt Matilda's research. Don't enter everything; just name and
approximate birth year. <br>
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<a href="http://www.familysearch.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.com</a> <br>
(Mormon's mega-site. Click on "Search", to start with, or "Advanced
Search") <br>
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Roots Web <br>
<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.rootsweb.com</a> <br>
and in particular, <br>
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi <br>
(Roots Web World Connect; 500,000,000+ entries, of varying quality) <br>
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Ancestry.com <br>
http://www.ancestry.com/ <br>
(which has free pages and FEE pages - so watch out) <br>
and, in particular, <br>
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln= <br>
Surname meanings and origins <br>
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http://www.tedpack.org/begingen.html <br>
My own site: "How to Begin" <br>
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United States only: <br>
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http://www.usgenweb.net/ <br>
(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.) <br>
(The Canadians have Canadian Gen Web, by province) <br>
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http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi <br>
(Social Security Death index - click on "Advanced". You may find your
grandparents.) <br>
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http://find.person.superpages.com/ <br>
(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins) <br>
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United Kingdom Only: <br>
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http://www.genuki.org.uk/ <br>
(Biggest site for United Kingdom & Ireland) <br>
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http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ <br>
(Free Birth, Marriage & Death Records) <br>
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In the USA, some public libraries have census image subscriptions.
Many Family History Centers do too. FHC's are small rooms in Mormon
churches. They welcome anyone interested in genealogy, not just fellow
Mormons. They have resources on CD's and volunteers who are friendly.
They don't try to convert you; in fact, they don't mention their
religion unless you ask a question about it. <br>
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This is a general hint: Even though you go in through YA Canada, YA
Australia, YA UK or YA USA, all of the questions go into one big "pot"
and get read by everyone in the world who speaks English. Most of the
people here are in the UK and USA, but you sometimes get questions and
answers from people who worry about kangaroos eating their roses. So -
put a nation, or, better yet, if you are asking about a specific
individual, a nation and a state / province, in all of your questions.
It will help people help you.
answers3: First and foremost, start with the people who are living.
Find out what they know. Talk with aunts and uncles, cousins, and so
on - anybody who is part of your family. Get dates, locations, names,
memories, stories - it's ALL important. Find out what they remember
about people who are no longer living, too. Put all your information
into a database that will help you organize it. The Mormon church
offers a free one, "Personal Ancestral File," that you can download
from their web site (they won't bug you in terms of their religion).
Once you have included as much as you can from people who are living,
start to search online sites, records, etc., for matching people and
events. Computers have revolutionized genealogy in the last two
decades, and there are ENORMOUS amounts of data available, as well as
innumerable personal genealogical web sites. <br>
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Good luck in your search! <br>
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http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin... <br>
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.... <br>
http://www.ancestry.com
answers4: those answers are good
answers5: 1
answers6: 2
answers7: <a href="http://www.familysearch.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/</a> is the best
completely free site. <br>
www.ancestry.com/ is the best paid membership site.