Family trees

[northener]

Wifes mothers interested in looking up her family tree. Anyone know of a good site.

[northener]

[Jeannine]

Start with Genes reunited, it costs very little and you will find tons of connections,it costs about £8 a year and you can see the trees of others you connect to(with permission of course) Ancestry.com has most of the printed stuff like census etc but they are about £50 a year, a must in my opinion if you are doing it seriously. Start with Genes reunited, you can tap in your rellies names and they will give you the names of folks already researching that family.

Good luck, it is addictive by the way, get back to me if you need any more help XX Jeannine

[Georgie]

I've just started looking into mine and I have found the people on Genes Reunited incredibly helpful.  This site is also useful:  http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

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[SMP1704]

Depends how much your mother-in-law already knows about the family.  If she can get back to 1901, she could log on to Ancestry.co.uk to check the census - it is a pay per view system.  It is generally better just to search by name, unless it is a very popular surname.

Genesreunited is useful and it doesn't cost anything to search.  The only drawback is that you are relying on the accuracy of other people's research, so don't necessarily take what you find at face value.  I find this site most effective by adding my family tree and waiting for people to contact me rather than using the information boards.

The national archives site has some good searchable databases for WW1 and limited WW2.

If your mother-in-law is looking at a fairly uncommon surname it is always worthwhile just googling and seeing what comes up.  That is another way to find family trees that other people have posted on the web.

Happy hunting.

[Trixiebelle]

No advice really. My (dear departed) Uncle was very keen on the family tree and spent loads of time in the library studying microfiches of censuses etc.

He traced us quite far back (in the hope of finding 'hidden money'!) - to a family of shoe-makers in the Sheffield area circa 1850's.

Entirely typical! We thought we were related to royalty but what did we find? ...





A LOAD OF OLD COBBLERS  ;D

True story by the way!