How to find family records using the best free Internet resources         

There are literally millions of web pages on genealogy and it is easy to get lost so that you can't see the forest for the trees. Where do you go first? Let's look at the sites that are likely to give you quick and easy results. To the left you will find links to the most important British American genealogy web sites. Go directly to these sites and find information about your ancestors and relatives. If you need more background on Internet resources, there are pages describing the different types of resources and examples on how you can use them to expand your family history knowledge.

Databases	Find online records such as vital statistics, census records, land records, passenger lists, military records, etc. USA,  Canada, Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia & Others   FamilySearch.org is THE genealogy web site of the LDS Church, and   Rootsweb.com, WorldGenWeb.org & Ancestry.com
Tools	Find map resources, phone directories and more. How to use search engines for genealogy. Connect shows how email, message boards, people finders, and free web sites like OFT can be used to communicate with people Free software like PAF and AFT

There are two main types of Internet genealogy web sites.

Many web sites describe how to do research and provide details of sources of paper and microfilm records.

This web site concentrates on online tools and searchable databases of genealogy records so that you can immediately take action to find information online.

What are the Steps? for more information see About
1. Gather information from known relatives.
2. Use the Internet to connect to someone who already has your family history.
3. Search the Internet for sources of online databases.
4. Search for the more difficult records.

I hope you find this useful. Good luck in your research.

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