Somer Distilo: You could try typing in "genealogy" into my freebie search engine and see what comes up! http://tinyurl.com/freebiesearch
Lenard Ginyard: Ted Pack's answer is great! I agree 100%. Not much to add, but here are my recommendations:There are a bunch of free sites. Ancestry.com is the most popular site for people in the US. It's often said to be a pay site, but it's free to list your ancestors and to look up other people's research, but they do charge for document look-ups (I think they have the largest document resources available), and you really need the documentation if you're going to get anywhere.Tribalpages.com has a great website with some tools that other websites don't have, such as ahnentafels and descendant reports.Genes Reunited is good for British users, as it's very popular in the UK....Show more
Francisco Schonhardt: There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. I have a page that has links to some huge ones, below, but you'll hav! e 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 whiteThen 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 yo! u 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.htmlIt has links toCyndi's List.com - A catalog of 250,000 sites;Family Search.org - the LDS mega-site;RootsWeb.com, plus sub-links toRootsWeb World Connect - almost 600,000,000 entries;RootsWeb Social Security Death Index;RootsWeb California Death Index, 1940 - 1997;Ancestry.com - some of their pages are free, includingAncestry.com's page on Surname meanings and origins;Ancestry.com's Query boards - 160,000 of themUS Gen Web, with sites for each state and each county within each state;Superpages.com, a US phone book for looking up living relatives;Find-a-Grave.com - 35 million entries;GenForum.com - 50,000+ real genealogy query boards;My page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites. Having one real link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets aroun! d 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, expect too much accuracy, or 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 really intuitive....Show more
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