[lace-chat] genealogy

[Sharon]

I've been researching our family history all year as well..it's been very 
interesting.  I have a subscription to ancestry.com.uk, genesreunited and I 
often consult familysearch.org.  I found familysearch a good starting point. 
Some of their information is wildly inaccurate but it often tells you who 
the parents were and some of the children.  Ancestry.com has all the census 
records back to 1841 in the UK.  The Americans kept records for longer than 
that..the lucky dogs :)  It's surprising how much information you can get 
from the census records though.  I found that most counties have a genealogy 
society and that's where I have made some valuable contacts..one fellow even 
went to the "home" village and took pictures of the village and one of my 
lost relatives :)  With genesreuntied I was most annoyed, you have to pay 
for everything :(  There again you can make some useful contacts, but 
overall I found that site useless.  The freebie sites are limited unless you 
happen across someone else looking for your family tree.  So far I've been 
able to trace my family tree back to the 1500's all on-line..now I've got to 
start to pay if I want certificates etc.   Sharon, on Vancouver Island 

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