Geneology search where do I go?

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Geneology search where do I go?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Start with your family first. Particularly get information from your senior members. Even when their minds are a little feeble, they can be valuable. Tape them if they will let you. People who do that say they go back a few years later after doing research and listen to the tape again and hear things they didn't hear the first time around. Sometimes it might seem people are rambling, particularly the elderly, and you might not think something is all that significant to write down and it just might turn out to be.

LDS (Mormon Data Centers) have a wealth of information. They are very helpful and I have never had one to come around ringing my doorbell.

Visit cemeteries. Obtain Death Certificates and copies of the applications for a social security number. Both have names and place of birth of the parents of the deceased or applicant including the mother's maiden name.

I feel copy of the application for a social security number more trustworthy than the death certificate.
Since most people know where there parents were born, the applicant will have given the right place. The Death Certificate depends on someone remembering where Grandma was born.

Census records are important. A lot of genealogical libraries and section of libraries dealing with genealogy have them. Ancestry.Com has them.

Information on immigrant ancestors, if you live close to Washington DC, I understand the National Archives has a wealth of information.

Ancestry.Com has lots of records and is obtaining more all the time. There are other web wites, Genealogy.Com. Rootsweb.Com (free) FamilySearch.org(free)

Any information you see in family trees that have been submitted on any website should be taken as clues not as fact. Most of the information is not documented. Even if you see the same information over and over, a lot of copying is being done.