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I cannot find.

Well, I only know my great grandfather was German 

How did you find this? I want to know who my ancestors are xD!

BTW: I've tried ancestry.com. Doesn't work for some reason.

JeanTheFox wrote:

MyHeritage is a good program. I've gotten back to my great-great-great-great grandfather, Patrick Lomey.

yay you are still Jean! Not ESN!

Anyone know a place where i can look up my ancestors and information on them?

Nexstudent wrote:

Anyone know a place where i can look up my ancestors and information on them?

Genealogy reports are very expensive... 

I started by asking my grandma, who had a cousin in Canada, who had done genealogy reports on our family before. Now the rest of the family up there and I are pen pals 

I can only trace until about 1900, but so far, all my family is boring 

cheddargirl wrote:

Nexstudent wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Any ancestry website is limited to whatever record they have. Maybe ancestry.com didn't have the records that would allow you to trace back your lineage.

Lots of people complain about ancestry.com, and how it's a scam or something.

It's not a scam, it's more like people dont' read the fine print about things when they sign up. Someone asked this on Yahoo, and here was the answer:

No, it's not a scam. Like Jan said, if you sign up for the free trial, they will charge your account if you don't cancel it before the trial period is up. But like Ted said, once you're a member, they won't automatically renew your account unless you tell them to. I've subscribed to Ancestry for 7 years and I've never had a problem.

Using Ancestry is like visiting a library. The library won't write your research paper for you, but it provides you with books you can use to research the topic of your paper. That's how Ancestry works. It gives you access to historical documents such as census, vital records, military records, etc. that contain information about your ancestors; you search those documents and use the info to piece together your family tree.

If you're lucky, someone else has already researched some of your family and posted a tree on Ancestry. But that "someone" was not an Ancestry employee, a computer or a genealogy fairy (haha Ted). It was a regular person like you or me. They may be an expert genealogist with years of research experience; or they may be a beginner who's just starting out... and who may have made some mistakes. If you find some of your ancestors in a user-submitted tree, be sure to verify the information yourself by looking for documents to back it up.

Ah. I didn't know that, although I never even went on the website, other people I know call it a scam.

I am still curious what website has found the most hits with people, so i can start tracing myself 

AfraidOfClouds wrote:

i'm from like the sky duh
that's why i keep talking about everyones wind
its their smartness

You make less than no sense dude

Nexstudent wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Nexstudent wrote:

Lots of people complain about ancestry.com, and how it's a scam or something.

It's not a scam, it's more like people dont' read the fine print about things when they sign up. Someone asked this on Yahoo, and here was the answer:

No, it's not a scam. Like Jan said, if you sign up for the free trial, they will charge your account if you don't cancel it before the trial period is up. But like Ted said, once you're a member, they won't automatically renew your account unless you tell them to. I've subscribed to Ancestry for 7 years and I've never had a problem.

Using Ancestry is like visiting a library. The library won't write your research paper for you, but it provides you with books you can use to research the topic of your paper. That's how Ancestry works. It gives you access to historical documents such as census, vital records, military records, etc. that contain information about your ancestors; you search those documents and use the info to piece together your family tree.

If you're lucky, someone else has already researched some of your family and posted a tree on Ancestry. But that "someone" was not an Ancestry employee, a computer or a genealogy fairy (haha Ted). It was a regular person like you or me. They may be an expert genealogist with years of research experience; or they may be a beginner who's just starting out... and who may have made some mistakes. If you find some of your ancestors in a user-submitted tree, be sure to verify the information yourself by looking for documents to back it up.

Ah. I didn't know that, although I never even went on the website, other people I know call it a scam.

I am still curious what website has found the most hits with people, so i can start tracing myself 

I think that depends on the data each genealogy has on record (for example, most of ancestry.com's records are based on U.S. records, so you might have little luck searching there if you know your family might have come from areas outside U.S. territories). And even then, searching may be difficult because searching up a single name can result in hundreds of records.

I managed to stumble across this article when searching how to look up ancestry online, maybe it might help. 

GlitchSprite wrote:

AfraidOfClouds wrote:

i'm from like the sky duh
that's why i keep talking about everyones wind
its their smartness

You make less than no sense dude

thanks so much bro i love being random

I can trace back to my great nan, and that's it. I'm not sure about my birth family though...