I come from a long line of amazing women and men but I wanted to know even more so I took a class in Collage and started researching sites that have provided me with some information and that is when I was introduced to the website www.familysearch.org
. Signing up for the website is completely FREE – always – no charge now
or later – its 100% free. The website taps into one of largest (I
actually believe it is the largest in the world) databases of genealogy
databases which is hosted by the LDS Church. Now for those of you out there who
are not affiliated with the church – don’t worry – you do NOT have to be
affiliated with the church in any way to sign up for an account and find all
your ancestors – this database is a database of everyone’s ancestors from all
over the world. It was created from birth records, death records, city
and country records, and from people doing their own research and adding to it.
The database is prepopulated with people who have died and then people can
manually add in living people – so for example, when I logged in I found my
deceased grandparents and then I manually added my living parents and all of my
living siblings. Once I linked us to my deceased grandparents I was able
to then follow each grandparent for generation after generation after
generation into the past. It was amazing! The entire chart was
already there and built for me – I just had to link myself onto it.
Even cooler is that I can click on any past relatives name and
it shows me any photos people have added of my relative and it has stored
documents and life histories and other uploaded items added to my
ancestors. I was able to find photos of ancestors I have never even seen
before – it was SO COOL!!! In addition I found news articles about my
relatives linked to them and I found journals that had been uploaded to some of
my ancestors clear back from Spain. I even found that I come from real life actual royalty!
SWEEEEETTTT! I always wanted to be a princess and come to find out I
actually am :) . It was SO EXCITING! You will be amazed what
you find out about who you are!
I have become absolutely obsessed with this website and reading
information about my relatives and now I am trying to gather more information
using the tools they offer to continue extending my pedigree chart as far out
as possible. It is amazing how much data you will find on your family day
one because so many people worldwide are adding information to this database
every single day. It is AWESOME!
Log in and try it out today – you will be so excited at what you
find! Just go to the homepage and in the upper right hand corner click
the words “Join for Free”. Then fill in the About Yourself page with where you
are from and your date and place of birth (this will start your personal box
that will begin your family tree). There is a checkbox on the page asking if
you are a member of the LDS Church or not – just click yes or no – the only
thing this affects is that for LDS Church members it will show information on
baptism into the church and temple attendance. Whether you are LDS or not
you get full access to all the family tree information and photos and memories
and journals, etc. So you don’t miss out on any of the exciting things
the system offers either way.
I guarantee that as you get into linking to your grandparents or
great-grandparents (or whichever generation is no longer living because
remember that your living relatives only show up if they are added manually to
the system) and you see the amazing family tree automatically start to show it
you will become obsessed just like I am – SO SO SO COOL!
Have a great Day everyone and make sure and figure out who
your ancestors are on www.familysearch.org !
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