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In the old days, before these new-fangled computers and Google search engines and all, we had to trace our ancestry the REAL way. If you really wanted to know about your ancestors, well it would have taken you years of going through dusty court rooms and pressing rubbings on tombstones, and travel with your feet and your books and not with the click-click of a mouse. Why, where’s the adventure in these free genealogy sites? Where’s the thrill of the hunt? In ‘olden days,’ you had to be made of certain stuff to find anything on any member of your family tree. Now anyone can go to free genealogy sites and get the whole thing done for them.

The Times They Are A-Changin’

It seems to be one of the instinctive questions we all need answering – “Where did I come from?”

Part of discovering this answer is finding out your family’s history. Unless your family is incredibly rich and/or powerful, it’s likely that no one but your family is going to keep the old family stories alive.

One of the places modern genealogists can use is free genealogy sites on the Internet. Free genealogy sites are free mainly because they have ads supporting them. You get used to them, as you do with ads on the radio or television. Free genealogy sites are things our ancestors would’ve killed for, so honor your ancestors by not complaining about the ads. And take a peek at your family or your mother’s family or your adoptive parents’ family through free genealogy sites.

What They Use

Free genealogy sites are huge libraries of information that are being added to all of the time. Many contain a wealth of information provided by volunteers or genealogists. However, a lot of the information on free genealogy sites comes from public records – the kind that are usually locked away in little town court houses which are only open to the public three days out of the year. Public records chronicle briefly the very dramatic events in your ancestors’ lives, and include:

• Marriage certificates
• Birth records
• Death certificates
• Any property information or deeds
• Legal transactions
• Census records
• Public phone books
• Ellis Island passenger lists

With free genealogy sites, it’s now easier than ever to find out about your family tree. This is good news … for most people.