Find your Ancestors for Free part 1

Finding your family ancestry has become the new big thing over the past few years and one of the biggest groups leading the way is Ancestry.com. I'm sure we've all seen the commercials, whether it's people expressing surprise and amazement at what they found or how easilly it was to search, from the websight, to the app or even DNA testing. An all encompassing subscription costs $50 a month or nearly $200 for a half a year, and the DNA test although very cool is is priced at $100 dollars and can't actually tell you everything about where your family came from.

    Researching your family tree can be an amazing adventure, not to mention really fun and potentially semi-addictive, but it doesn't have to be an expensive hobby in fact it can be free. So I am going to do my best to show you how you can find your family without spending a ton of money that could be put to better use doing something else!

     The first thing you should do is write down all the information you have, and I mean everything starting with your parents and working your way back. You want to write full names any and every importent date, births, marriage, births of children, deaths. You want to write where they lived where they were born, what kind of work they did. After you've done what you can ask your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc for any information that you might not have known about and write it all down. Then after you've done all you can do, it's time to really get started!

      If you have an iPad, iPhone or any other devise with access to the APP store, you want to go on and download the ancestry app from ancestry.com. You will be able to make an account and use their family tree device for free, if you only have a desktop I believe you can also do this through ancestry.com if however it doesn't work Familysearch.com also has a similar application for building your family tree, although it is not quite as user friendly. Now that you have a digital family tree, it's time to add all your information into it. And that should have you off to a good start, next time I'll tell you about free websights available and how you can use them, I may even give you some examples.

Please leave any questions in the comments and I'll do my best to answer them!