Pauline
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Many people travel to their "old country" to find information about their relatives. I did a roots trip to Ireland in 1992 with Steve, my father, his brother, and my brother to see the village where my dad and his brother grew up. I have also traveled to London when my grandad was still alive to see where my mother's family lived.
Recently I joined Ancestry.com to create family trees for Steve and me. I've never had much interest in all this but it has really attracted my attention now after two different friend suggested I look into it. The whole process was made easy for me because @susan (an Ancestry master! and one of the friends who suggested this for me) did most of the research and work for me. Now I am reviewing it and filling in a few blanks where I can.
Right now I am working on Steve's tree because I am very interested in Jewish history. His family is from Ukraine and his great-grandfather moved to Canada in the late 1800s, followed by his wife and children, which included Steve's grandfather.
Interestingly Susan found that one of her father's close friends is related to me on my Irish side!
I know that @Valerie and @BryanS do research for people with southern Italian heritage. They gave me some pointers about research in general.
I am building my trees on Ancestry.com which you have to pay for. But when you are done, you can cancel your paid membership and use your free membership to view trees (or so I think). It is a complicated system but once you get use to it you see how much great information they have.
I've also looked at Familysearch.org which is free. And JewishGen.org which is mostly free.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/account/profile/08be657b-0006-0000-0000-000000000000 - this links to my page. You have to be a member to see it.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
https://www.jewishgen.org
Is anyone else doing family tree research?
Recently I joined Ancestry.com to create family trees for Steve and me. I've never had much interest in all this but it has really attracted my attention now after two different friend suggested I look into it. The whole process was made easy for me because @susan (an Ancestry master! and one of the friends who suggested this for me) did most of the research and work for me. Now I am reviewing it and filling in a few blanks where I can.
Right now I am working on Steve's tree because I am very interested in Jewish history. His family is from Ukraine and his great-grandfather moved to Canada in the late 1800s, followed by his wife and children, which included Steve's grandfather.
Interestingly Susan found that one of her father's close friends is related to me on my Irish side!
I know that @Valerie and @BryanS do research for people with southern Italian heritage. They gave me some pointers about research in general.
I am building my trees on Ancestry.com which you have to pay for. But when you are done, you can cancel your paid membership and use your free membership to view trees (or so I think). It is a complicated system but once you get use to it you see how much great information they have.
I've also looked at Familysearch.org which is free. And JewishGen.org which is mostly free.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/account/profile/08be657b-0006-0000-0000-000000000000 - this links to my page. You have to be a member to see it.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/
https://www.jewishgen.org
Is anyone else doing family tree research?