Get free genealogy search advice that builds on what you already know about your ancestry. Simply answer a series of questions to get specific suggestions on how to best use online genealogy records for researching your ancestors.

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The interactive part of this site will ask you questions on what you already know about your genealogy. Your answers to the questions allow this site to create a free, customized plan for what you might do and where you might look in order to develop your research more fully. We emphasize online records so that it is easier to perform your research using your computer.

The free, customized advice provides suggestions tailored to your ancestry on census records, birth records, marriage records, death records, obituaries, ship manifests, naturalization records, and church records.

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Haven't Found Family Trees Online?

If no one has traced your family or if the family information has not been placed on the Internet, you won't be able to find family trees online. Unfortunately, a lot of ancestor research has not been placed on the genealogical websites.

The next best thing to do is to use census, birth, death and other records to find more on your ancestry.

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Genealogy Search Guides

Once you have suggestions how to best trace your ancestry, we also provide hints in our guides on How to use the genealogical records. This is particularly useful if you are not sure How to use certain records that were recommended.

The topics of the guides include birth, marriage and death records, naturalization and census records, ship manifests, using obituaries, newspapers, and historical societies, finding church records, and locating family trees on the Internet. Each guide highlights facts about where to find these sources of information, hints on using them successfully, and examples of how these have been useful to a variety of people.

The free Online Advice feature of this site will point you to the guides which should be most useful to you. Also, as you learn more about your ancestry, you can come back for additional advice.

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Searching for Common Names

Looking for common surnames on the Internet can, at times, be a frustrating experience. The following site provides suggestions for finding ancestors who have a common surname. You will find a page devoted to each of the common surnames. Each surname page provides specific resources for that surname.

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My Genealogy Search

This site grew out of my efforts to trace my ancestry. I found most of the clues online. As I became fairly good at using the various websites, friends and relatives have asked me to give them suggestions. This website grew out of those suggestions. Since my background is in software development, I decided to use some simple artificial intelligence (AI) programming. It is the AI programming that provides the questions you will be asked when you try the Online Advice.

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I have sprinkled my own story about investigating my ancestry throughout this site. It is my hope that you find my experiences and this site useful.