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A Terrific Website for Family History Exploration

By: Piper Cox

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There is a great interest in researching our ancestry these days, and lucky for us there are a wide variety of resources at our finger tips for finding our genealogy. Gone are the days of traveling long distances to view census records or church records. We can now find most of those documents online.

There are quite a few websites that are dedicated to helping you find your ancestors. Some have large databases and vast resources, where others are dedicated to small areas or types of documents. We will take a look at one of the most comprehensive websites that you can find a lot of the information you may be looking for.

Ancestry.com is a full service family history resource. This site is an easy to navigate online resource for many different public records such as birth and death certificates, military records, census records and more. In addition, Ancestry.com has a wide database of users who have shared their genealogy research. You can compare your data with the data submitted by other users and find a connection. It is possible to contact other members and share information. Ancestry.com is a large community of genealogy enthusiasts who share their research and data with others so they can find their history as well. This site is a paid membership genealogy resource that has monthly fees as low as $12.95. The actual cost will depend on the package you sign up for.

Ancestry. Com has recently added DNA testing to their list of services. For just under $150, they will send you a DNA test kit that you swab the inside of your cheek with and send it back. The DNA is tested in a state of the art laboratory and the results are then sent to you. The site will provide you a list of your possible ancestor and relative matches based on DNA. As the DNA database grows, you may get occasional emails when there is a match that closely resembles yours. You can then contact your genetic relative using their website and possibly share genealogy research and further expand your family tree.

In addition to providing great resources for people who want to search their history, this site also provides human resources as well. If you feel overwhelmed with the prospect of searching for your ancestors, you can hire an expert. The site has a ‘hire and expert’ section that allows you to hire out a variety of research services. Those services include:

Finding someone to translate records that are in another language. If your ancestors immigrated from one country to another, many records may be in a language that is foreign to you. With this service you can get accurate translations to help you with your research.

Finding someone who can take a local photo. Do you want a picture of your great-grandmother’s childhood home or perhaps a grave marker? Through this service you can find local people in the town you are researching who are willing to take photos and send them to you.

Record pick up. Do you need a copy of a document that is in a location far from you? Hire a local in that area to go to the archive and mail a copy of the document to you.

Record verification. You can hire someone to verify if a document you found is real.

Ask a question. You can send a question to a panel of genealogy experts and then review the answers. You will only pay for the best answer.

Custom research. You can hire a professional genealogist to do your research for you. Many times people who do research professionally have resources that the rest of us don’t have access to. This service can pay off if you are stuck at a particular point of your research.

Ancestry.com is a one stop site for all your genealogy research needs. Their information is up to date and they use the latest technological advances to help your search go as smoothly as possible. Who knows, you may find a relative you never knew you had!

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Piper enjoys researching her genealogy and reading tales of her ancestors. She spends a lot of her time using her slide scanner to make wonderful duplicates of her grandparents photos She loves nature, good movies and spending time with her family. Piper enjoys the time she spends writing about fitness and genealogy.

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