best geneaology software as far as easy data entry and easy to understand reports (i.e family tree printouts)?
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The L.D.S. church puts out a wonderful program called P.A.F. or Personal Ancestory File. It is a free download.  I think that you can either find it on geneology.com or lds.org  Good luck!
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www.ancestry.com - much of the site is free but you have to pay for many features\n\nhttp://www.rootsweb.com/ - this is one of the oldest and best genealogy sites and everything on it is free\n\nhttp://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/default.aspx - this site has profiles of surnames\n\nhttp://wc.rootsweb.com/ - you will find family trees on this site and you may find that some of your relatives are there.\n\nGenealogy is so much fun - I hope you have a lot of success!\n\ns
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Ask Gutenberg or Plantin. Google it.\nToo long to explain. Too technical.
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go to google and type in  _____(your last name) genealogy
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I maintain the site for my church, and I subscribe to the mailing list for web keepers in my denomination. We discuss this all the time.\n\nI also do genealogy as a hobby. I often tell people the best web page I ever saw had a 25% grey background and nothing but line after line of black courier text. It was  a transcription of the 1850 census for Monroe County VA (Now WV) with about 6 dozen of my dead ancestors on it.\n\nSo - content. It has what I'm looking for. It should be laid out in a logical order for first-time visitors. People who visit every week will learn how to navigate it quickly enough. Make t easy for the first-timers.\n\nAppearance - clean, without useless decorations. A light background, dark text, text links blue and underlined, nothing else blue or underlined. Some of my fellow church web keepers disagree with me on this. My argument was that about 1 time in 20 I use my ATM card at a retail store, I push the wrong button in the wrong sequence and have to start over, because each ATM scanning port seems to have a slightly different standard. I don't want to have to play "Guess which button"; I want to pay for my loaf of bread and get home. The same on a web page; I don't want to have to guess where the text links are. I want them to be blue and underlined, just like they are on the other 90% of the sites I visit.\n\nSome genealogy sites have antique floral wallpaper and "Take Me back to West Virginia" musical background. I consider both useless decorations.\n\nBread crumbs or a navigation bar on each page help. "Bread Crumbs" show you where you are. Each word or phrase is a link. So, on a query board for Monroe County, at the top you'd see:\n\nNorth America -> USA -> West Virginia -> Monroe County\n\nClicking on the "USA" link would take you to a page of states, and so forth. (the Ancestry.com query boards do this really well.)\n\n80% - 90% of visitors to the four sites I maintain come to them through an interior page via a search engine. At least half of them have come by mistake. So, it should be clear at the top what the page has and what it is about. \n\nMy church site, for instance, is in Modesto, California. It has a map showing how to find us. We get lots of visits from people looking for a map of Modesto.\n\nThere should be a way to get to the home page on every page, at the very least. If your site had tiers, it should be easy to get "up" one tier. (For instance, if your site had mountain bikes for sale, pictures of your trip to the Alps and recipies your grandmother handed down to you, and I found the apple pie recipie, I should be able to get "up" to the recipie index with one click.)\n\nInformation - people who are buying things want prices. People looking for a church want to know where and when they meet, and, for men in California at least, if they should wear a tie. Exactly what first-time visitors want depends on the site. Whatever it is, they should be able to find it easily.\n\nOne of my pet peeves is fixed text size. Some web designers think everyone in the world has 20/20 vision and a 19-inch monitor. We don't A quality web page will allow people to enlarge or reduce the text size, and its design will not suffer. It should work at any resolution, too.\n\nI also hate it when people put a full-size picture on a site and set the dimensions to 100x200 or so; I have to wait while my browser downloads 4 MB, then wait again while it shrinks the picture.\n\nIf you have more than 100 pages, you should consider a mini-search engine. If you get one, put a link labeled "Search this site" on every page.
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have you tryed familytree.com or just simply entering the last name or maiden mane of the person in your search on line?
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If you are African, the best site is: http://www.africanancestry.com.  www.genetree.com also has a kit for determining your racial and ancestral dna links.  Good luck.
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Look into OpenOffice.  I hear it is as good if not better then MSOffice and is 100% compatible and the price is right- free!
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the library or geneologgy websites will cure this problem my friend!! Family heritage is available on many websites under search engines these days.\nThere is an Ancestory website on line also.
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This is a text file I save and paste for your convenience and mine. I don't have to type it again and you don't have to plow through 47 resolved questions to find it.\n\nGenealogy is a fascinating hobby, but it usually takes more time than most young people are willing to spend. A good family tree takes more time than a term paper, and involves more research. You don't need a college degree to do genealogy, just common sense and patience.\n\nGenealogy is the most popular hobby on the Internet for people over 40. As an example, Cyndi's List (link 1) is a web site with nothing but links to other genealogy sites. She has over 250,000 links.\n\nThe next two links are to the two largest free data bases on the Internet. Family Search (familysearch.com) is run by the LDS Church - the Mormons. RootsWeb World Connect (worldconnect.genealogy) is a collection of genealogical data that other genealogists have uploaded. \n\nTry your two surnames in each data base - your father's surname and your mother's maiden surname. That will give you a feel for how much research has been done on those two surnames. Even better, if you can, call your grandparents and ask what THEIR grandparent's names were - maiden name for the ladies. Their birth day and birth state will help too. Those 16 people are your great-great grandparents. \n\nMost Yahoo! users are 20, give or take 10 years. Most people have children between the ages of 20 and 40, which averages to 30 years per generation. So, if you were born 20 years ago, your mother and father were born 50 years ago, your four grandparents were born 80 years ago, your eight great-grandparents were born 110 years ago and your sixteen great-great grandparents were born 140 years ago. (Those are averages; your results will vary.) If you can get the names of all 16 of your great-great grandparents, you should be able to find at least one or two by name in one of the data bases. You won't find yourself or your parents, because genealogy sites hide dates and details - usually even given names - for people born after 1920. The SSDI (Social Security Death Index) is an exception. It will have people born any time, so long as they have died. \n\nLink 4 (superpages) is a web-based phone book. It will tell you how many people with your surname have listed phone numbers in the US.\n\nLink 5 (begingen.html) is a page on my web site with some hints for beginners. One of the pages is "How to Start". There are also liks to larger, more comprehensive beginner's guides.
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Try Ancestry.com   Not sure if it will give you the info you need but i know there is info there on my computer but I also have the family tree maker installed.
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Yes there is one called my trees.  www.mytrees.com you can find your ancestors for free.All you have to do is go to the extraction documents bit.Translate an old document for them and this then allows you an hour looking through their records.Why not take a look.Good luck.
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The study of family trees is called Genealogy. There is a category for it in Arts & Humanities.\n\nThis is a long, general answer to the question "How do I get started in Genealogy?", with some links. I save it and copy it in for convenience. It is convenient for me because I only have to type it once. It is convenient for you because you don't have to wade through 43 resolved questions to find it.\n\nGenealogy is the most popular hobby on the Internet for people over 40. As an example, Cyndi's List (cyndislist.com) is a web site with nothing but links to other genealogy sites. She has over 250,000 links, all cross-indexed and categorized.\n\nIt isn't very popular with young people because it takes a lot of patience and, unlike softball, it isn't a good way to meet members of the opposite sex.\n\nThe next two links are to the two largest free data bases on the Internet. Family Search (familysearch.com) is run by the LDS Church - the Mormons. RootsWeb World Connect (worldconnect.genealogy) is a collection of genealogical data that other genealogists have uploaded. \n\nTry your two surnames in each data base - your father's surname and your mother's maiden surname. That will give you a feel for how much research has been done on those two surnames. Even better, if you can, call your grandparents and ask what THEIR grandparent's names were - maiden name for the ladies. Their birth day and birth state will help too. Those 16 people are your great-great grandparents. Don't expect to find yourself or your parents. Most genealogy sites are limited to dead people.\n\nMost Yahoo! users are 20, give or take 10 years. Most people have children between the ages of 20 and 40, which averages to 30 years per generation. So, if you were born 20 years ago, your mother and father were born 50 years ago, your four grandparents were born 80 years ago, your eight great-grandparents were born 110 years ago and your sixteen great-great grandparents were born 140 years ago. (Those are averages; your results will vary. If you can get the names of all 16 of your great-great grandparents, you should be able to find at least one or two by name in one of the data bases.\n\nThe fourth link (superpages) is a web-based phone book. It will tell you how many people with your surname have listed phone numbers in the US.\n\nThe last link (begingen.html) is a page on my web site with some hints for beginners. There is a page there on "How to Start", with links for further reading.
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I research alot on EllisIsland.org   you have to register, but it's a free site.     Ancestry.com costs!
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First you need to know what you want the program to do. If you want to keep track of information, you'd be best with a databes. If you want to do stuff in windows, you'd go with VB. \n\nPlease flesh out your needs some more.\n\ngreetz\nGB
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we used microsoft ACCESS here at work; this program is very powerful and will help you organize, see and print information on customers or other records in a variety of forms, this is useful if you have data that you'll be inputting yourself electronically\n\nif you have a lot of paper that you want to store electronically the way to go would be to get a high-speed, high quality scanner (these can be leased) and either buy a big file server or burn the stuff to CDs
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101 Ways to Research Your Family Tree for Free\nFrom Kimberly Powell,\nYour Guide to Genealogy.\nFREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!\nAlternatives to Pay-For-Use Genealogy Sites on the Internet\nIs free genealogy a thing of the past? With the constant addition of subscription genealogy databases on the Internet, people often wonder if there will soon be an end to free genealogy research via the Web. For those of you with this concern, take heart - free genealogy databases aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Web sites from all over the world contain free genealogy information of use to family tree researchers which has been contributed by individuals, companies and even governments. Birth records, marriage records, military records, ships passenger lists, surnames, census records, immigration records, wills, photos and much, much more are available on the Internet for FREE if you just know where to look. These 100 free genealogy sites, in no particular order, should keep you busy searching for weeks! Sponsored Links\nTrace your Ancestry\nDiscover your roots. World wide family tree. Find your ancestors.\nwww.genebase.com\n\nFree Surname Search\nAccess thousands of free genealogy databases and record transcriptions\nFreeSurnameSearch.com\n\nFamily Tree Template\n3.5 billion names across 15 decades Trace your family history here!\nAncestry.com\nRootsweb - World Connect Project \nOut of all of the online databases of submitted family tree information, my favorite is the World Connect Project which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their work with other researchers. The reason why this particular project is my favorite is it is one of the largest, and it also allows people to add to, update or remove their information at any time. While this by no means ensures that the information you will find here is correct, it at least increases the probabilities of finding current contact information for researchers with information which interests you. This free genealogy database currently contains over 3 billion names in over 300,000 family trees, and you can search them all online for absolutely no charge! You can also submit your own family tree information in GEDCOM format for free. \n2. HeritageQuest Online \nThe data on this site is only available through subscribing institutions, but free online access is available to many with a membership card from their local library. The databases are fairly US-centric, including digital images of the complete federal census, 1790 to 1930 (with head of household indexes for most years), thousands of family and local history books, and Revolutionary War pension files, plus PERSI, an index to articles in thousands of genealogical journals. If your local library doesn't offer online access, many genealogical societies offer free or low-cost access as a membership priviledge. \n\n3. Debt of Honour Register \nFind personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces (including the United Kingdom and former colonies) who died in the First or Second World Wars, as well as a record of some 60,000 civilian casualties of the Second World War provided without details of burial location. The cemeteries and memorials where these names are commemorated are located in over 150 countries. Provided freely on the Internet courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. \n\n4. U.S. Federal Land Patent Records \nThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provides free online database access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, as well as images of more than two million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and 1908 for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. This is not just an index, but images of the actual land patent records. If you find the patent for your ancestor and wish