Genealogy

Where can I find Free Family Ancestry online?

I want to find the Paradis family ancestry, where we originated, what we did long ago, etc. but every site I visit insists on me paying some outragous amount for information and a certified “family crest on tooled leather” or other such nonsense. If anybody knows, I would be very thankful.

If you want to type in your name somewhere and get a 12-generation tree, skip the rest of this. I can show you where to dig, but you’ll have to buy your own shovel and do the work yourself.

As a side note, before I start, since you are in favor of free sites, contact the US Gen Web administrator for your county (Link below) and offer to help transcribe records. They are in favor of free data too. The more people they have to help, the more data they can put on-line for free.

Buying a shovel: If you get serious you’ll need a genealogy program. Trying to do Family Research without a genealogy program is like trying to write a novel with a pencil and yellow pad, instead of a word processor. I like Roots Magic. Family Tree Maker is the market leader. Both cost around $29. The Mormons will let you download PAF for free. It is clunky, but it is free. You can sometimes find old versions of FTM or Family Origins (FO is the predecessor of RM) in bargin bins at CostCo.

These may help get you started.

http://www.cyndislist.com/

(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed.)

http://www.familysearch.com

(Mormon’s mega-site)

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi

(450,000,000+ entries, of varying quality)

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=

Surname Meanings and origins

United States only:

http://www.usgenweb.net/

(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.)
(The Canadians have Canadian Gen Web, by province)

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

(Social Security Death index – click on “Advanced”.)

http://find.person.superpages.com/

(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins)

Note:

You won’t find living people on any of the sites except the phone book one. You will have to find your grandparents’ or great grandparents’ birth dates and maiden names somewhere besides the Internet.

The free sites are supported by advertising, just like TV. You can’t watch the Super Bowl without seeing a beer commercial, and you can’t surf for dead relatives without seeing an Ancestry advertisement. Don’t complain about advertisements. They bring you the “free” sites. There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

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1430 Births; Margaret Of Anjou, James Ii Of Scotland, Oliviero Carafa, Stephen V B Thory, Ferry De Clugny, Augustine Fangi, Bernhard Walther $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Margaret of Anjou, James Ii of Scotland, Oliviero Carafa, Stephen V Báthory, Ferry de Clugny, Augustine Fangi, Bernhard Walther, Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, Robert Morton, Fernando Ii, Duke of Braganza, Gerhard Vi, Count of Oldenburg, Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, Pelbartus Ladislaus of Temesvár, Hosokawa Katsumoto, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Pierfrancesco the Elder, Jean Colombe, Niccolò Alunno, Estêvão Da Gama, Joan de Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre, William Douglas of Cluny, Joan Chaworth, Bartolomeo Scala, Richard West, 7th Baron de La Warr. Excerpt: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (16 October 1430 1430). Duke of Rothesay is the honour taken by the heir apparent to the Scottish throne, and so it was given to this boy, the fifth child but first son of James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort . Alexander, a twin , died in infancy, and his younger brother became James II of Scotland . The twins were born in Holyrood Palace , Edinburgh . Ancestry Scottish royalty A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Augustine Fangi Blessed Augustine Fangi (also, Augustine of Biella , or, in Italian , Beato Agostino Fangi ) (1430 22 July 1493) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest . He was commonly regarded in his time as a miracle worker , and as prior of several houses, was concerned with restoring and maintaining regular observance of the Rule of Saint Dominic. Life The life …

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1781 in Military History: Military Units and Formations Established in 1781, Cape Corps, 19th Light Dragoons, Regiment de Meuron $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Cape Corps and its predecessor units were the main military organizations in which the Coloured members of South Africa’s population served. As one of the military units of South Africa with one of the longest histories, the Cape Corps reflects the history of South Africa’s Coloured population to a great extent. The first Coloured unit to be formed was the Corps Bastaard Hottentoten (Dutch for “Corps of Bastard Hottentots”), which was organized in 1781 by the Dutch colonial administration of the time. Based in Cape Town and drawing its members from men of mixed Hottentot and White ancestry, this unit had about 400 members. However, the unit was disbanded in 1782. In 1793 this unit was re-formed in Cape Town as the Corps van Pandoeren (Pandour Corps), only to be disbanded again in 1795. The unit was re-formed again under the British colonial administration in May 1796, this time under the name Hottentot Corps. It was headquartered in Wynberg and consisted of about 300 men. In 1798 the headquarters were moved to Hout Bay. On 25 June 1801 the Cape Regiment was formed. It was organized as a British imperial regiment of ten companies and retained all the personnel of the Hottentot Corps. With the Dutch taking over colonial administration of the Cape once again, the Corps Vrye Hottentotten (“Corps of Free Hottentots”) was formed on 21 February 1803. It was later re-named the Hottentot Ligte Infanterie (“Hottentot Light Infantry”). When the British returned to the Cape, they formed The Cape Regiment in October 1806. Headquartered in Cape Town, it was organized as a typical colonial unit with British officers and Coloured other ranks. In later years, the Regiment also had a troop of light cavalry added. On 24 September 1817 the … More:

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A Complete Memoir of Richard Haines (1633-1685); A Forgotten Sussex Worthy, with a Full Account of His Ancestry and Posterity $21.88 Publisher: [London Printed by Harrison] Publication date: 1899 Subjects: Haines, Richard, 1633-1685 Haynes family Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

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A Discourse Delivered In The North Reformed Dutch Church (Collegiate) $14.02 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:DISCOURSE. Psalm 48 : 9. -’ We have thought of thy loving-kindness, 0 God, in the midst of thy temple.” The scenes and associations of our early days will always find a place in our memories and in our hearts. No change of time or circumstances can efface them from our minds. “When removed from the parental home, or the domestic circle, when away from the land of our birth, on a pilgrimage to a distant land, who will not cordially indulge in recalling, with deep emotion, the associations and incidents of the past ? Though the place of our early home may no longer be in the possession of our family relationship, yet the scenes around it will vividly impress us, and the events of the past will spontaneously crowd into our memory. Where are the generous minds and feeling hearts that have not often felt this attraction, or that would be willing, for a moment, to repress or weaken it? If the reminiscences bearing upon time and earth inspire deep interest, how much more must that interest be increased when connected with the exercise of Christian faith and hope, in their rise and culture, and with the teachings and influence of divine grace, in the worship of the sanctuary ? We have entered anew this time-honored place of worship, after it had been closed, during a series of weeks, for the purpose of being thoroughly repaired, in the aspect of renewed freshness and beauty which it now presents. Since it was first completed and opened for divine service, in 1V69, successive generationsworshipping in it have passed from time to eternity. There are numbers, now scattered in different parts, who recur to their ancestry, and perhaps themselves, as baptized, worshipping, and trained within these walls. There are very many, now living, who connect the earliest recollections of

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