For a homework assignment, I have to create a family tree. I am to my great grandparents in the tree, but I need a free website to find out more about my history. Thank you!
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Well, I just happen to love family trees!
here are some useful links:
http://www.ontariotrees.com/
http://www.treesaregood.com/
http://www.jaybee.cc/
http://www.treebarkcameras.com/
If you need more sites, just go to this website( http://www.4chan.org), click on one of the links, navigate to /g/ and tell them you checked yahoo answers, and you were told to go there! They will be happy to help. (They’ve even done homework for me!)
Hope this helps!
Chet.
ANCESTRY.COM IS GREAT.
Ancestry.com is great. It is NOT FREE.
http://www.familysearch.org is free. It does not have as much, but you can use the basic census entries.
Assume each of those gr grandparents were living pre 1930. That is the latest that can be found open to research (by law). One you have the family in 1930.. then try to pick up 1920, 1910, 1900. The last one will have the FULL IMAGE, not transcribed. If you have common names..try to pick a family member with something unique to use for searching (ie find Zelda instead of Mary). Watch your birth years, to get the right ones.
See how many of them you can pick up on http://www.findagrave.com
http://www.rootsweb.com has the social security death index, that includes ALMOST all deaths in the US since about 1960. If you find persons there..it often will "flip" you into the census.
For good research… the idea of ONE "good" site is the opposite of what you want. Each person is unique (example..any ancestor who died in Texas pre 1975, you can pick up their death certificate at familysearch.org).
Post your people, one at a time with details ie approx dates, PLACE and name. Siblings, if you know them. See what we can locate.
And..of course, being a regular here..I’d hope you catch the fever and keep going beyond your assignment.
ps
sites that have "posted" or submitted family trees are really not the best places, since much of their work is just copied…and has errors. You do better with real documents/ records.
Great grandparents are enough. "Doing" a family tree takes a considerable amount of experience. Asking students to do one is like asking someone who has never fished before to head into the mountains with a fly rod and come back with enough trout to feed a dozen people.
Someone asks "How do I find my family tree, for FREE?" here 3 – 14 times a day. If you are not satisfied with your great grandparents, look in the resolved questions. For $159, the cost of a year’s subscription to the USA only Ancestry.com package, you could get to 1850 on 75% of your lines, in 200 hours or so. I suspect you don’t have the time or money to do that.
Family Trees on websites are totally and completely unreliable. If your teacher has suggested you use a website to copy information from family trees apparently she doesn’t know much about genealogy.
If you can get back to your great grandparents you have enough for a homework assignment.
There are lots of websites but you want to find those that have records and information in family trees ARE NOT records. For a homework assignment you probably don’t have enough time to go back past your great grandparents and if you teacher doesn’t know that she shouldn’t be giving this as an assignment. You can put this on her desk if you wish. Anytime a teacher gives an assignment like this and does not offer an alternative assignment all too frequently he/she is intruding on families. There are things that some parents are not ready to share with their children and they shouldn’t have to explain to the teacher, principal, the superintendent or the school board. However I think anytime this sort of thing is a compulsory assignment someone should take it to the school board. We had an incident that happened in our area about 30 years ago and a woman that was involved had 2 little girls about 6 and 8. The oldest of those 2 little girls was in therapy for about 4 years after the incident.
A teacher tried to imposed this type of assignment on a class and a man in town fought against it with the school board and when he finally won a grandfather went by his home to thank the man that stopped it. That grandfather was the father of those 2 little girls. They were grown and had things they weren’t ready to share with their children and I don’t care how old their children are, it is the parents’ business and the parents’ business alone. When I first heard of teachers giving assignments like this I thought it would be a great way to teach a child how to do research. However, most are trying to do what you are doing, just copying what someone else has in their family tree and not verifying whether the information is correct or not. This is true even when you see the same information on the same people from many different subscribers on a website. That doesn’t mean the information is correct as too many people copy without verifying. So if other kids in your class has a tree that goes way back understand very likely what they have isn’t correct. If anything make up a family tree.
You have done enough for a homework assignment………..and NO teacher who know anything about family history research would expect you to have more or go onto websites to copy information…..as I said ‘know about FH research’ which means the assignment is about research skills, not copying un-cited information or building a tree…………………if on the other hand this teacher is giving out assignments on subject they know nothing at all about and have unrealistic expectations then they should not be teaching.
Websites generally only give you clues, indexes etc to enable you to look at real records ( unless they have the scanned documents) and anyone using uncited transcribed information from websites, without checking each and every on of those back to the original records are only collecting information they are not researching FH…………………………………..
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