Family History Tips

Nervous or shy about getting family history info from your relatives? Have your children do it. I mean who can resist your cute little ones. Here's an article that might help them get started: Children can help .

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How to get started .

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Free Genealogy sites .

Watch some of the best of rootsweb TV on your computer...Dearly Departed .

A brand new website looking at the writing of family history is being launched at www.storyofmylife.com.

Check out the free resources at Family Tree Magazine, including blogs, reviews and resources. Visit www.familytreemagazine.com.

Building your family tree online can be easy (and free) at a number of sites including www.famiva.com, and www.geni.com.

www.genetree.com offers some of the same features but combined with genetic genealogy.

Twenty years ago many people filled out family history sheets in Ahnentafel format (looks somewhat like a family pedigree chart) for Heritage Quest Magazine. Now, the digitized version of those records can be seen here.

The largest Genealogy wiki (like an online encyclopedia) is available at www.werelate.org.

A new incredible resource for British Genealogy searchers is now online at www.pricegen.com/.