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which is the best web site?

to search for your ancestors, trace your family tree. i dont mind paying but if theres a free one that anyone knows off.which is the best.

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1. Try www.Anarchism.net. Thats got some fun facts and whatnot that you'll enjoy more than looking for your "family tree"....
2. 101 Ways to Research Your Family Tree for Free Alternatives to Pay-For-Use Genealogy Sites on the Internet Is free genealogy a thing of the past? With the constant addition of subscription genealogy databases on the Internet, people often wonder if there will soon be an end to free genealogy research via the Web. For those of you with this concern, take heart - free genealogy databases aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Web sites from all over the world contain free genealogy information of use to family tree researchers which has been contributed by individuals, companies and even governments. Birth records, marriage records, military records, ships passenger lists, surnames, census records, immigration records, wills, photos and much, much more are available on the Internet for FREE if you just know where to look. These 100 free genealogy sites, in no particular order, should keep you busy searching for weeks Check web page for details
3. Ancestry.com is the best website to start. I found lots of information regarding my ancestors. You can get lots of information that you will need to do your search!
4. create a group on Yahoo.......start out by entering your ancestors family names birth and death dates.....you may be surprised who respondes.
5. Ancestry.com is what I use it has been one for me. Keith Anderson
6. Which country are you in????????? Every person who replies will give you details of what works where they are. This is a world-wide site! If you are in the UK use genesreunited or ancestry.co.uk
7. I have been researching my family tree for a number of years and I can tell you with certainty that the best website is http://www.ancestry.com It has the largest collection of genealogical resources anywhere online. It is pricey, but if you're serious about researching your family tree, it's an absolute must.
8. Huguenot.org. We Hugeunots tend to be clever, devilishly handsome and worldly wise. Our hair doesn't get grey until late in life, either. Unlucky at love, though. I can tell you are one of us. Your ancestors came to Virgina, got along famously with the English because we both hated the French Catholics and loved 80-proof sipping whiskey. We are more subtle than the Irish or the Scots. Just kidding. Which one is best depends on where you are and where your ancestors came from. This is a text file I paste to questions like yours. People ask similar questions 3 - 14 times a day here. You get a long, detailed answer, I don't get finger cramps. It is long because there are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. It is also long because researching your family tree is as hard as writing a term paper in a History class. You don't have to be a rocket scientist, but you won't do it with five clicks. I could tell you everything I know in 30 minutes, but not 3. The fact you have to do research stops nine out of ten teens and many adults. If you didn't mention a country, 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 not, please edit your question to add a country. Or, better yet, delete it and ask again, this time putting inthe country. Genealogists from the UK answer posts here too. They are more experienced and more intelligent than I am. I'm better looking and my jokes are better. The really good stuff is in your parents' and grandparents' memories. 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. Don't look for yourself or your parents. So much for the warnings. Here are some links. These are large and free. Many of them have subtle ads for Ancestry.com in them - ads that ask for a name, then offer a trial subscription. Watch out for those advertisements. If you try the links and don't find anyone, go to http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html It repeats each link, but it has a whole paragraph of tips and instructions for each one. http://www.cyndislist.com Cyndi's List has over 250,000 sites. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp The Mormon's mega-site. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi RootsWeb World Connect. The links at the top are advertisements. They mislead beginners. Ignore them and scroll down. http://www.rootsweb.com/ RootsWeb Home. This is the biggest free (genealogy) site in the world. http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry has some free data and some you have to pay for. http://www.usgenweb.net US Gen Web. Click on a state. Find a link that says "County". http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx? Surname meanings and origins, one of Ancestry's free pages. http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi" Social Security Death Index. Click on "Advanced". Women are under their married names. They are under their maiden names in most other sites. http://find.person.superpages.com/ USA Phone book, for looking up distant cousins. http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi California Death Index, 1940 - 1997. http://www.genforum.com GenForum has surname, state and county boards. http://boards.ancestry.com/ Ancestry has surname, state and county boards too. They are free. Read http://www.tedpack.org/goodpost.html before you post on either one. Read the paragraphs about query boards on http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html before you search them. http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Roots Web Mailing List Archives. Read http://www.tedpack.org/maillist.html if genealogy mailing lists are new to you. Off the Internet, 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.