Tips For Doing Genealogy Research Online
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By The Tree Shaker-
Lots of people are afraid to put much information online. But if you are willing to start adding your research online to either www.ancestry.com or www.familysearch.org you could find someone else researching the same surname and get lucky and be able to help that person with their research. Likewise, they may be able to help you also. Lots of research brick walls have been broken down this way.
Both of these sites are free for putting your research on their page but if you want to use www.ancestry.com for research you have to pay a monthly or yearly fee. You can chose to just use their site for adding and organizing your family tree. If you decide to pay for using their site for research and then later decide not to pay the fees, the research you have already added will still be there and you will still be able to add to it and edit information.
FamilySearch.org is a free site for genealogy research and you can also put your family research on their website for a way to organize also. With both ancestry and family search you can change the settings to allow public or private access to your information. If you set it to public everyone can see it. If you set it to private then no one can see your research. There are pros and cons for both private and public settings.
Family search is a website based from the largest genealogy research library in the United States, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ancestry is the largest and most popular genealogy research website, although it is mostly a paid subscription site. Ancestry even is promoted on television through the show, “Who do you think you are?”
Both of these websites also have an application for Apple and other mobile devices. These applications allow you to view your family tree if you have added it on their site, edit your tree, add photos and other records right in the application.
Having this application on a tablet is very handy when traveling to do some research. If you have a subscription to Ancestry and are using the application or their website, you will get what they call “shaking leave hints.”
When you see these hints you can click on them and see hints that ancestry thinks has some matches to one of your ancestors. Be careful when accepting these hints as actual facts. Sometimes the names are the same but if you look closely the dates may not be the same as those of your ancestor.
If you do not have Internet access at home or want to see what information you can find on Ancestry before you invest money into the subscription there are a couple options.
You can get a free trial for Ancestry, or the Warsaw Community Public Library has a subscription for patrons to use for research.
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Lots of people are afraid to put much information online. But if you are willing to start adding your research online to either www.ancestry.com or www.familysearch.org you could find someone else researching the same surname and get lucky and be able to help that person with their research. Likewise, they may be able to help you also. Lots of research brick walls have been broken down this way.
Both of these sites are free for putting your research on their page but if you want to use www.ancestry.com for research you have to pay a monthly or yearly fee. You can chose to just use their site for adding and organizing your family tree. If you decide to pay for using their site for research and then later decide not to pay the fees, the research you have already added will still be there and you will still be able to add to it and edit information.
FamilySearch.org is a free site for genealogy research and you can also put your family research on their website for a way to organize also. With both ancestry and family search you can change the settings to allow public or private access to your information. If you set it to public everyone can see it. If you set it to private then no one can see your research. There are pros and cons for both private and public settings.
Family search is a website based from the largest genealogy research library in the United States, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ancestry is the largest and most popular genealogy research website, although it is mostly a paid subscription site. Ancestry even is promoted on television through the show, “Who do you think you are?”
Both of these websites also have an application for Apple and other mobile devices. These applications allow you to view your family tree if you have added it on their site, edit your tree, add photos and other records right in the application.
Having this application on a tablet is very handy when traveling to do some research. If you have a subscription to Ancestry and are using the application or their website, you will get what they call “shaking leave hints.”
When you see these hints you can click on them and see hints that ancestry thinks has some matches to one of your ancestors. Be careful when accepting these hints as actual facts. Sometimes the names are the same but if you look closely the dates may not be the same as those of your ancestor.
If you do not have Internet access at home or want to see what information you can find on Ancestry before you invest money into the subscription there are a couple options.
You can get a free trial for Ancestry, or the Warsaw Community Public Library has a subscription for patrons to use for research.
Have fun and keep digging![[In-content Ad]]
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