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Does anyone know how or where I can find an accurate, reliable place that I can go to to find my family tree (like trace my ancestors). Lately, I have become very interested in this topic and my family members cannot provide me with as much information as I am curious of.
I deeply appreciate your help.
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The Church of the Latter Day Saints or Mormons have been compiling information on this for many years. They now have the largest free research records in the world.
If you have the names and dates of birth/death of your immediate ancestors, the site shows you how to get started. Log on to their website and enter the information. It will also tell you the whereabouts of a local Family History Centre if you want to go in person.
You can also try church records, registry offices and on line sites, but the on line sites generally ask you to take membership.
Hope that helps, good luck.
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Most states have a free genealogy web site, just do a search with your state and genealogy. Then once you get to the state site, you will be able to select counties. The sites that I can think of are on rootsweb.com. There are others like Ancestry.com, but they require you to join for a fee.
The best way to start is to write down everything that you and your relatives know. Write approximate dates of births, deaths and marriages. Go to cemeteries and get dates off of headstones. Go to the local courthouse and get birth certificates, marriage certificates and death certificates. After so many years these become public information.
If you have specific years that you know where ancestors have lived, you can get census records which will give you a lot of information.
Family Tree makes a good software for you to track your information, and you can also join their website for a fee.
Good luck and this is a quite interesting and time consuming hobby, but well worth it!
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start at your local library. they often have facilities you can use for this sort of thing, or can direct you to somewhere that might be of help.
the key is to ask :)
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