Good Webs?

Question

What is a good website that is free to search up on ancestry. Please do not say Ancestry.com Because it is only a free trial.

In English we generally use second conditional constructions for polite requests. E.g. "Could you tell me a good free website to search up on ancestry?" Then we often say something like "please" or "thank you" as well. - rabbitwho, Sep 5, 2011

I said it politely. - poppypepper22, Sep 5, 2011

Not where I come from you didn't! :P ;) - rabbitwho, Sep 5, 2011

I will fix later. Got to go. - poppypepper22, Sep 5, 2011

If the above sounds impolite or not depends on what you are used to. There is a "please" included above. It is a direct question and I do not find them impolite at all. - - ian-hill, Sep 5, 2011

In my opinion (I M O ) Indirect questions introduce all sorts of ambiguity and sometimes attempts at manipulating the person being asked. - ian-hill, Sep 5, 2011

Answer 1

Try here: http://www.censusfinder.com/

Good luck! It takes a lot of work and research.

What always confuses me is when people go back really really far.

There was a lady on tv who found out her great x10 grandfather went over to America on the Mayflower. She was so excited. But the fact is that she has thousands and thousands of great x10 grandfathers and all of them are equally related to her as he is. Not to mention he's probably great x10 grandfather to thousands and thousands of great x10 grandchildren. I mean even I could be his great x10 granddaughter and I'm not even American. More likely his father is one of my great x11 grandfather's since he was from Europe.

we each have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 16 great grandparents. etc. etc. you don't have to go back too many generations to get into millions, and you don't have to go back too many more than that to get numbers that were greater than the population of the earth at the time. So yes, everybody is and has always been marrying distant cousins.

Thank you almost perfect only if you list more good webs I will pick you as best answer - poppypepper22, Sep 5, 2011

Well I used google to find that, I guess I could use google again, but I've allready used it a few times today and if I use it too much they'll think I'm greedy and ban me. - rabbitwho, Sep 5, 2011

Right on Rabbit - I gave up trying to find very much - would probably find I am related to everyone. - ian-hill, Sep 5, 2011

I know I am one eigth Irish and one sixteenth French - that is enough for me. - ian-hill, Sep 5, 2011

Answer 2

You could try Ancestry.com...

(I didn't say it, I wrote it)

Great idea! - rabbitwho, Sep 5, 2011

That was not even funny... Just cheesy... - poppypepper22, Sep 5, 2011

Creo que es gracioso, Tosh... :) - 001a2987, Sep 5, 2011

Answer 3

I think the best way to learn about your ancestry is to talk to older relatives. Do you have any around still?

good idea! - rabbitwho, Sep 5, 2011

I have been doing that for a while. Thanks! - poppypepper22, Sep 5, 2011