Genealogy

What website can I go on to find out my Family History for free?

I really want to find out my family history but every website I go on wants money! Help????

You will need to get back to the 19th century from family knowledge before the free sites will be much use to you.

So talk to all your relatives, ask to see old photographs, records of birth, baptism, death and marriage, family Bibles, funeral service sheets, etc, and make copies. Find out where all your deceased relatives are buried, visit the graves, transcribe the information on the gravestones and take photographs. If you don’t know where people are buried or are unable to visit the graves, you may find them on www.findagrave.com

Too many of us family historians regret not questioning the oldies closely before they popped their clogs, so get all the names, dates and places you can and then check these against the official records. Then work back one generation at a time, using birth/baptism, death/burial and marriage records, and the census.

The national indexes of birth, marriage and death up to the 1930s can be searched at http://freebmd.org.uk Civil registration was introduced in England and Wales on 1st July 1837, although registration of births was not compulsory until 1875 and it is estimated that up to 50% of births may not have been registered in the early years. Search more recent indexes on microfiche at your County Record Office, central library, LDS Family History Centre, or at Ancestry.co.uk which you may be able to use for free at the library. Some local registration offices are putting their indexes online at http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/

When you have found the right entry in the index, the birth, marriage or death certificate costs £9.25 when ordered online from the General Register Office and providing them with the full reference from the index:- http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/Birthmarriageanddeathcertificates/DG_175628

The census returns for England and Wales from 1841 to 1911 are held at the National Archives at Kew, and the census images and transcriptions can be accessed via the links on their website:- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/default.htm?WT.hp=Census Only the 1881 census is available free online, all the others are on paid sites although it is free to search the indexes. If your local library has installed Ancestry Library Edition on their computers, you may be able to search the census there for free. Volunteers are transcribing the other censuses to make them freely available and this site has completed some counties for some years:- www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

On the free LDS sites you can search the 1881 census, and the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which is a large collection of extracts from parish registers. Many more records can be searched on microfilm or fiche at your local LDS Family History Centre – find out where the nearest one is from their website (and you don’t have to become a Mormon, lol, just be respectful – they won’t even try to convert you!). You can also download their family history program Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for free. http://www.familysearch.org

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1408347

Before 1837, the only records of the main life events of our Ancestors will be found in the parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial. Churches still keep these registers but usually deposit the old ones for safekeeping with the County Record Office where they can be searched on microfilm/fiche. These two free sites are in process of putting parish registers online:- http://onlineparishclerks.org.uk/ and www.freereg.org.uk

If you want an accurate Family Tree you will not rely on online Family Trees, many of which appear to have been submitted by ‘name-collectors’ who do not care how tenuous the links are as long as they end up with a family tree that goes back to Adam and Eve. However, it is worth looking for clues in the trees on Ancestry.com and the WorldConnect project at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ but verify anything you find online by consulting the original records before incorporating the data into Your Family Tree.

These are directories of genealogical resources with links to websites, some of which will be free:-

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

http://www.cyndislist.com/

www.worldgenweb.com
Genuki has a page for each county where you can locate the County Record Office where the parish records will be held, and other resources for that county.

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