I've been doing my family genealogy for
16+ years and really
love it.
It's great to find out who these people were and what they did.
I find
they range from the courageous to the typical.
How they lived and what they did
in life to bring us to today is amazing!
This is by far my
favorite hobby!
Have a look at the
work I've done with my own families and maybe I can help you with getting started on your own family.
Most all online genealogy services require you to subscribe to their services.
Once you pay your subscription fee you can look up & print
census &
voter lists, birth, marriage & death records, military records, immigration &
emigration records, family trees , newspapers & periodicals, city directories,
court & land records. You will not find many current records usually
documents are not available containing data on a living person. Census are
only available up to 1930, the 1940 census is due to be released in 2010.
Hire me to start you off, for $30 I'll send you a PDF copy of the records found for one of your ancestors and let you know what is not available before you subscribe to one of the online databases. After you look at the documents I gather for you, you can then decide if you want to subscribe to one of the online databases or If you haven't got the time to do the research yourself and would like me to expand the search to fill out your family tree we can go from there.
Genealogy can be time consuming & expensive, for example STANDARD
PRICING on ancestry.com looks like this:
U.S. DELUXE MEMBERSHIP
Annual $155.40, Quarterly $50.85, Monthly $19.95
WORLD DELUXE MEMBERSHIP
Annual $299.40, Quarterly $83.85, Monthly $29.95
If that's all a little over whelming & expensive I'm available for hire to start you off or you can check out this brief outline
of how to get started on your own.
Check out these
great books too!
