 NazcarPosting tagPremium
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Topeka, KS | Family Tree idea's I am looking to start a family tree process and not sure where to begin, I am going to be doing this without haveing to pay out for software or paying a website , for right now anyway, I am limited on my money status , so is this something I can do for free online and if so, does anyone know where I might start?
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| If you can tolerate it, the Mormons have got some kind of searchable database that may be at no cost for a certain amount of use. »familysearch.org/ They do not claim to have everything, but they have a large collection of data. |
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 CylonRedPremium,MVM
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Bloom County | reply to Nazcar
A large chunk of census data from teh 40's I believe was just opened up. If you know that family went thru Ellis Island I believe there is a db for that data as well. The Mormans have one of the best genealogy data out there for a lot of people.
Our local library (well - next town over) has a large genealogy room for our county and nearby counties. My aunt used it extensively for research to get her kids in the Daughter's of the American Revolution.
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 Locutus65Why bother?Premium
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Ancestry.com is awesome even though you have to pay but here are some free ones
»www.genealogysearch.org/free/freeware.html
»www.genealogy.com/index_a.html
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 stormbowFreedom isn't FREEPremium
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Simi Valley, CA
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Another vote for familysearch.org, also city-data.com has a good genealogy group/forum.
For the software, I use a open source program called gramps for my local and use a free ancestry.com account. While you can't use any of ancestry's data, you can get hints. Another resource is find-a-grave, and of course Google.
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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You're about to take the first step in a long, fascinating journey...
You NEED this:
»www.familytreemaker.com/
Believe me...pay the $31. You won't regret it. This is an astounding piece of software that will help you tremendously. You ARE going to end up with hundreds of people in your family tree...this is the only way to keep track of all of that.
This is the the site I use the most:
»www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
You'll get a lot of mileage out of this site before you need to pay for anything.
My area of research is Oregon Trail Pioneers 1847-1853...I work on 1,250 Donation Land Claim families...none of them my own. 
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NazcarPosting tagPremium
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Topeka, KS | reply to Nazcar
thank you all for the advice, yes, this has already been an exciting road, difficult too but well worth the ride.
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Locutus65Why bother?Premium
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Using ancestry.com I've traced my family back to the 1500's. It's way cool  |
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John GaltForward, MarchPremium
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Well OK then...! 
Looks good!
Actually, "whatever works"...because doing it 'by hand' is just simply impractical.
One of the things that I noticed what something curious that really doesn't manifest itself in our 'modern' society. In my Oregon Trail genealogies, the software picked up widows that married brothers of the deceased...sometimes within a month of the death of their husbands.
While 'we' marry for love (typically), a widow in those days out West was in -very- serious straits (especially if there were young children involved) if her husband died. Marriage was for survival...if nothing else.
I also do photo restorations...which I enjoy. The advent and availability of modern scanners allows recovery of photos that are almost entirely gone due to poor "fixing" of the photographic print.
Some of them are very old. The oldest one that I did was taken in 1834. It was nearly white when I got it, but it recovered nicely after processing (shown above).
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I downloaded myheritage. It's excellent. And even better I could import my .ged file from Ancestry.com.
The one drawback is some features are only available on the pay version which is a bit expensive at $75.00
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