Family History Search - Continuing the Free Online Ancestor Hunt!

I'm still trying to keep the wallet in your pocket for a little bit longer by finding some free stuff! As I previously mentioned there are many sites willing to let you do searches and give you a little information for free, but as soon as you click on the "More Information" button you will find that a fee is involved.


Ancestor Hunt is a great site to use when doing free searches for ancestors. It has a large list where you can do numerous searches from free online genealogical data base's. One of the oldest and largest free databases supported by Ancestry.com is RootsWeb, much of the information has been accumulated over the years through the submission of genealogical data from the community.World Connect is where people submit their family tree as part of the huge RootsWeb data base, and this contains over 575 million names! Every chance you'll find some ancestors amongst that lot!

When researching family history, a great source of information are old newspapers. Did a member of your family do something which made the newspapers ? Something you will always find in newspapers are events like births, deaths and marriages. We'll look at this option in more detail shortly.

Remember to enjoy the search for your family history. It's a bit like being a detective, putting together all the evidence which you are accumulating and coming out with an end result. You have probably already discovered a few family secrets which have been hidden for generations. I guess you can even research history to find out if any criminals are part of your family, you may find out all sorts of juicy information.


See you next time!

Peter Annett