Family Genealogy Websites and Programs
Family Genealogy Research
Not sure where to start with looking for your ancestors, need genealogy software, or just looking for the best genealogy resources? Below is what I use every day. Contact me with any family genealogy questions. - Wesley
ANCESTRY.COM
START YOUR OWN FAMILY TREE FOR FREE HERE!
All you have to do is enter in a few details and ancestry.com will take care of the rest to build your tree.
Highlights of ancestry.com are:
- Billions of digitized historical records.
- The only complete online collection of U.S. Census Records from 1790 – 1930.
- Millions of vital records; birth, marriage, death records, and wills.
- Immigration and emigration records; ship passenger lists, naturalization records, etc.
- The largest collection of U.S. military records online; draft cards, service records, muster rolls.
- The world's largest family history community that shares its research, photos, stories and notes.
Below are excerpts from their website:
"Ancestry.com is the world's largest online resource for family history, with more than one million paying subscribers as of December 2009. Since starting as publishing company in 1983, the foundation of our service is an extensive and unique collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online since 1997.
We have built the world's largest online community of people interested in their family histories. Our community is a large and growing source of user-generated content. Over the past three years, our registered users have created over 14 million family trees containing more than 1.5 billion profiles. They have uploaded and attached to their trees over 32 million photographs, scanned documents and written stories."
ONEGREATFAMILY.COM
As far a creating your own family tree and having it match up with other family trees to help complete your lineage it's hard to beat OneGreatFamily. It's one LARGE tree built by member's entries. They have almost 200 million unique entries; all you do is enter in your info as far as you can go back and it takes over from there completing your tree.
START YOUR FAMILY TREE HERE AND CONNECT WITH OTHERS
All you have to do is enter in a few details and OneGreatFamily.com will take care of the rest to build your tree.
Highlights of OneGreatFamily.com are:
- A single, shared family tree built by people all over the world
- Continually searches for additional information and relatives for every one of your ancestors. It's fun to check back every morning to see new entries others have entered!
- Genealogy tools such as surname searches, genealogy search tips, newsletter, printable genealogy forms, and other resources.
Below are excerpts from their website:
"OneGreatFamily is a cooperative effort between you and the rest of the world. It is an online genealogical service which allows everyone to combine their knowledge and data to build one huge, shared database. OneGreatFamily is more than a simple collection of different family trees. Using breakthrough technology, OneGreatFamily is actually linking all of the family trees together into one great family.
What this means to you:
With the world working together on one database, each individual is able to leverage the effort and research of all OneGreatFamily users rather than wasting time duplicating research that others have already done.
You, along with people all over the world are constantly adding new data to the database. Each time new information is added the system processes the data using OneGreatFamily's exclusive "handprint technology" looking for results. Because the database is growing everyday, you may login during lunch and find new information waiting for you that wasn't there during breakfast!"