January 11, 200620 yr Has anyone ever searched their family tree online? And if you have could you recommend a good site for that. I'm starting to try to find my ancestors from Norway 150 years ago in hope to find some long distance relatives that live in Norway now. I'm sure I'll have to pay to use a site but a free one would be great, haha. So if anyone has anything about a good ancestry site or whatever else, I'd really like to know what it is. Thanks in advance.
January 11, 200620 yr usually those sites are pay per view. There's money to be made on Geneology sites. I don't know if this explains anything, but on my dad's side, I believe a great-great-great uncle, possibly even a grandfather, was a Civil War captain in the cavalry......................for the south. needless to say, we lost a lot of land and a lot of slaves. I think that's the best bad thing that's ever happened to my family
January 11, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Jan 10, 2006 -> 10:17 PM) usually those sites are pay per view. There's money to be made on Geneology sites. I don't know if this explains anything, but on my dad's side, I believe a great-great-great uncle, possibly even a grandfather, was a Civil War captain in the cavalry......................for the south. needless to say, we lost a lot of land and a lot of slaves. I think that's the best bad thing that's ever happened to my family haha I don't know if i had a family member in the Civil War, I don't think I did. But yeah most of them are pay per view sites. I'd just like to know what's the best or a really good one.
January 11, 200620 yr I can tell you that the organization that has the single largest depository of geneological information is... the Mormon Church. Scary, huh?
January 11, 200620 yr QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 03:21 PM) I can tell you that the organization that has the single largest depository of geneological information is... the Mormon Church. Scary, huh? And for those of you in Fort Wayne Indiana (hi greasy) the library there is WONDERFUL for geneology.
January 11, 200620 yr QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) And for those of you in Fort Wayne Indiana (hi greasy) the library there is WONDERFUL for geneology. It's sad, when that is one of the biggest attractions the city has.
January 11, 200620 yr QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 05:21 PM) It's sad, when that is one of the biggest attractions the city has. It is nationally (and in some cases internationally known) for the geneology part of the library. It is indeed very good, though.
January 11, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 09:21 AM) I can tell you that the organization that has the single largest depository of geneological information is... the Mormon Church. Scary, huh? Yeah my brother just told me that today actually. Pretty cool stuff.
January 11, 200620 yr I have a family tree that traces back to my 15x great-grandfather in the 1500's back in Holzien, Switzerland. Hans was a popular name.
January 12, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 04:44 PM) I have a family tree that traces back to my 15x great-grandfather in the 1500's back in Holzien, Switzerland. Hans was a popular name. The farthest one I have traced back is 7 generations to England, not to brag and believe it's nothing to brag about, but my 7x great-grandfather had royal British blood which is kind of cool. What I'm trying to find is my family from Norway on my other side.
January 12, 200620 yr QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 11:25 PM) Again, I was related to a lot of guys named Hans.
January 12, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 11, 2006 -> 11:25 PM) Again, I was related to a lot of guys named Hans. lol I like the name Hans.
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