Heather: Looking for Genealogy and public record sites?

answers1: Do people never review the questions that have been answered
on the YA site, this one is asked at least 5 times a week & the same
answers are repeated over and over. 
The Family History Centers, have access to subscription sites
including newspapers and UK records. There is no fee for using a
Family History Center. 
Many Public libraries have access to similar sites & they do no charge
for using the computers. 
Familysearch.org is totally free and has records similar to Ancestry,
but without the little leaf hints. 
The problem that some many people have is that they do not want to
search records, they want to click a website and have it completed by
someone else.
answers2: 1
answers3: Every coming day there seems to be news of horrible crimes
being committed to innocent people. We want you to know who these
offenders are, some are living among you without your knowledge.
eVerify, a criminal background search tool, will provide you that
closure. 
 
http://unlimitedchecks.info/tips-107a.html 
 
Instantly run searches and gather information about the people you
interact with on a daily basis or people who live around you. You will
be shocked with what you find out. The real question is, can you
handle the truth?
answers4: You should look at the resolved questions. Either browse
them or use the advanced search at least three times, for the words
 
 
Free family tree 
free family history 
free ancestry 
 
People ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree,
for free?" 3 - 14 times a day here. 9 of us top 10 have stock answers.
(One of the 10 is retired.) After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer,
the rest don't bother. All 9 stock answers are well worth reading. All
9 of us are warm, wise, witty, well-read and, above all, devilishly
handsome. We have quite a bit of overlap on our favorite links, but we
emphasize different aspects of the hunt in our advice. 
 
Here is my stock answer: 
 
There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among them (without http://) 
 
www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. 
www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records. 
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entries 
usgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USA 
ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Social Security Death Index, 83 million names 
vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index,
9,366,786 records 
www.findagrave.com - 53 million records 
genforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state,
and thousands of surnames. 
boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and
surnames too. 
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over
30 million messages 
 
I have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade
through some advice and warnings first. 
 
If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one
of their international sub-sites, 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 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. 
 
<a href="http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html</a>
 
 
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 tricky.
answers5: Criminal Records Database: https://wikimedia.im/background-checks 
Public records are named so because these are records that are meant
to be obtained by public and when you say "public", it could be
anyone. Public records can be used by anyone for investigations and
other things like genealogy, verifications, and free background check.
When you say it is public, there is no need to ask permission to the
person who is named on the records or the person that you are
investigating. You also do not need to ask permission from the
government if you want to obtain such records by social security
number. All you have to do is to visit them and follow the process of
requesting the public records and then wait for the records to be
ready for pick up. Once you already have the records that you need,
you are now ready to perform a free background check.
answers6: The info you were given was MISLEADING. 
Here's the deal...you should stop expecting that research is SUPPOSED
to be free. There are thousands of free sites, which is gravy. Not the
standard. 
Public records are open to the public. That does not mean ONLINE.
Obituaries may or may not be online..for that matter, many persons
don't HAVE obits. Or, they might be on microfilm at the library in the
town where published. 
As I said, there are thousands of free sites. What they "cost" is your
ability to narrow down what you need. You can get Texas death
certificates from one place. Illinois death index from another place.
Findagrave.com has millions of grave entries..your person may or may
not be on there (they do not have every grave in the world). 
The biggest shift in your thinking is this...DEFINE THE FACT that you
want to locate. Once you know what you need, then see if it possibly
is online. If not, you still might use the internet to locate where it
is (ie address of library or newspaper). Or even google. 
Think of facts. NOT WEBSITES.
answers7: Find Out if People Around You Have a Criminal Past -
http://unlimitedchecks.net/safe-122x.aspx 
 
We all live in a world were uncertainty follows us wherever we go.
Would you like the chance to minimize uncertainty? Be comfortable with
your surroundings? Be assured your neighborhood is safe? 
 
All of these things can be solved through eVerify, a criminal
background check tool. It isn't spying if you are concerned about your
safety and your family's safety. You should have the accessibility to
find out who is living in your neck of the woods and who is coaching
your child's sport team. 
 
There is nothing more important than our families:
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answers8: You've been told something that's not entirely correct.
Public records are records collected by a public (government) agency
for a public purpose. Not all are accessible and/or free to examine,
search, or retrieve. It depends on the type of record, jurisdictional
law, the era, and the agency's policy. Obituaries are not public
records. They may be in the public domain or publicly accessible
(different concepts entirely). They are only sometimes free to view
and there is no central database. 
 
Resources will vary depending on where and when your ancestor lived,
what records they left behind, and what is available for that
place/time/activity. Without knowing these things about your ancestors
it's hard for us to give you the best links for you. Not everything is
online and/or free. Do what you can online/free. Free resources can
keep you busy for a good while. From any source or sites, avoid
user-submitted trees/pedigrees except where they have sources cited,
and go to the sources. Indexes and transcriptions are better than
trees but still likely to have errors. Try to find and work with
original documents. Original document images are the least likely to
be online. 
 
Some helpful online starting places: 
<a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.cyndislist.com/</a> 
<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>https://www.familysearch.org/</a> 
<a href="http://www.censusfinder.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.censusfinder.com/</a> 
http://www.findagrave.com/ 
http://www.deathindexes.com/ 
http://www.archives.gov/ most records aren't online/free, but has lots
of information and good for finding the archives that houses the
record. Viewing records in archives is usually free. Copies are not.
 
Here -- Many of us have resources or knowledge specific to certain
documents, times, places, and groups if you post information about the
ancestor you're working on. Search resolved questions for keywords
free online/website family tree/family history for more links. 
Google -- Look for local libraries, archives, agencies, Family History
Centers, and GenWebs. 
 
Using a strong research process will help make your experience more
fruitful (on or offline): 
1. Interview your living relatives. 
2. Examine your documents and those of relatives that will allow it. 
3. Prepare for research by learning about basic genealogy, genealogy
specific to your known ancestors. 
4. Organize your data. 
5. Research one document at time for one generation at a time for one
person at a time.
answers9: You Want Know: 
• Want to know who is Calling? 
• Need to find someone based on their Address? 
• Find anyone by their Email address? 
• Find by Name? 
• Considering a Criminal Background check online? 
 
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With eVerify, you can search for 1 in 4 informative search options:
People, Background, Criminal Records, and Social Media. 
 
You are only a few easy steps away from uncovering the truth about
someone's background! 
 
Access one of the largest email databases on the internet and uncover
someone's name and address based only on their email address! 
 
eVerify can help you uncover the identity of the person behind the
phone number. 
 
Use Criminal Records Search to uncover all that you can about
someone's past. Learn about an individual's criminal history and find
out the details about their prior offenses. Find out if someone close
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more. 
 
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answers10: I found a great site, no fees, no joining a membership and
it's state by state research, so you can start in your own back yard.
The web is; linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/. After you log on, just
scroll down and choose a state to begin with. It will let you pick
cemetery, newspapers, schools, counties,and much more. Check it out, I
found tons of info on my family from old newsclips.

Heather

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Monday, 16 September 2019

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