Free Genealogy Search Advice for Researching Ancestry

Genealogy Search Guides To Help You Get Started on Your Ancestry

If you want to skip the advice system and look at search options yourself, this website also has genealogy search guides to help you research your ancestry. These are meant to support the research suggestions provided by the Free Online Genealogy Search Advisor. Nevertheless, you can look through the guides yourself. The genealogy search guides provide basic information about what is included in the various sources of genealogical records and how to find them on the Internet. Here are the available search guides.

• Using Birth Records
  • How to Search for Birth Records
  • Birth Records Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Marriage Records
  • How to Search for Marriage Records
  • Marriage Records Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Death Records
  • How to Search for Death Records
  • Death Records Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Ship Manifests
  • How to Search for Ship Manifests or Passenger Lists
  • Ship Manifests Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Obituaries
  • How to Search for Obituaries or Death Notices
  • Obituary Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Census Records
  • How to Search for Census Records
  • Census Records Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Naturalization Records
  • How to Search for Naturalization Records
  • Naturalization Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Historical Societies
  • How to Search for Historical Societies
  • Historical Society Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Church Records
  • How to Search for Church and Parish Records
  • Church Records Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Using Family Trees
  • How to Search for a Family Tree
  • Family Tree Search Example for Ancestor Research
• Record Keeping Options

My Personal Ancestry Search Journey

This site grew out of 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 was developed using those suggestions. Since my background is in software development, I decided to develop a rule-based system that asks what you already know about an ancestor and then uses those answers to suggest ways to make your genealogy research more effective.

Give it a try: Go directly to the Free Online Genealogy Search Advisor or choose the type of advice you are seeking in the shaded box above.

Other Search Options

We also provide the following free websites to help you with your genealogy search.

1. Search for family trees:
   Family Trees Searched at Ten Sites | Family Tree Searcher.
2. Improve your family history searches using Google:
   Free Genealogy Search Help for Google.
3. If you are just starting out, get suggestions for your search:
   Genealogy Decision Charts | Genealogy Fast Track.

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