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what are the best sites to look up ancestry or genealogy w/o subscribing or paying anything?? in other words$0?
everything i’ve tried wants you to subscribe.
There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. I have links to some huge ones, below, but you’ll have to wade through some advice and warnings first.
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 in the USA,
AND most of your ancestors were in the USA,
AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access,
AND you are white
Then you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with 100 – 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are black, sadly. Many young people stop reading here and pick another hobby.
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. You’ll have to get back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking up obituaries and so forth.
Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to be cautious and look at people’s sources. Cross-check and verify.
So much for the warnings. Here is the main link.
http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html
That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the links are popular, I get “We’re taking a breather” when I try to post the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the “new look”.
You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The query forms on the sites are NOT intuitive.
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How To Trace Your Native American Heritage $14.19 This DVD will assist you in obtaining your Tribal Citizenship and CDIB card…. |
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Just the Facts: It’s About Time – Historic Time $7.00 Just The FactsTM It s About Time is a two-volume series that helps children understand how we measure time in our daily lives and how we measure historic time. The series explores concepts of time and chronology and explains in simple terms units of time measurement. Historic Time expands the concept of time into the larger units of years, decades, centuries, and eras. The video explains the m… |
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Harlequin: Broken Lullaby $3.85 Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 12/30/2008… |
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Finding Oprah’s Roots – Finding Your Own $8.49 Oprah Winfrey’s ancestry is traced back to the Kpelle people of Liberia using modern advances in genealogical research.Genre: DocumentaryRating: NRRelease Date: 1-MAY-2007Media Type: DVD… |
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DNAffirm Ancestral Origins $10.99 Your DNA sample is analysed to determine your genetic profile, then compared to an extensive database of human genetics collected from hundreds of global populations and anthropological regions…. |
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23andMe Personal Genome Service: DNA Test for Health and Ancestry Information $499.00 … |
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Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project $6.99 Travel backward through time from today’s scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustration… |
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The Official Guide to Ancestry.com $15.64 Whether you are coming to Ancestry.com for the first time or have used it for years, you need The Official Guide to Ancestry.com. Written by noted genealogist and lecturer George G. Morgan, this official guide takes you inside the #1 website for family history research for an unprecedented tour. This second edition includes chapters on the new search at Ancestry, MyCanvas, and Ancestry DNA. In add… |
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Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images Quicksheet $7.95 … |
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Family Tree Maker 2009 Platinum [OLD VERSION] $59.99 Family Tree Maker 2009 by Ancestry.com the #1 selling family history software can help you easily discover preserve and share your family history. It can help you build your family tree gather stories and photos and create charts and books to share with your family. The Platinum Edition includes a six-month subscription to Ancestry.com the world s largest online collection of family history rec… |
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Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors (Paperback) $12.69 A National Archives` official guide which is written from the perspective of a custodian of the records. It details the internet developments, including a chapter on family history on the web. It also points to more traditional resources, explaining st… |
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A Tree Without Roots (Paperback) $11.27 Offering insights on how to delve into one`s past, this book is intended both for beginners and experienced researchers and provides inspiration to those who believe that their search may be hampered by having a mixed parentage or a history of migratio… |
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Ancestry`s Concise Genealogical Dictionary $11.54 |
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Finding Your Irish Ancestors $11.1 Description not available. |
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The Great Ancestor Hunt $8.5 Includes details on how to create your own direct-ancestry chart. |