looking up ancestry?

Does anyone know of any good free sites to look up ancestry?? Ive been trying to find out more info since my grandfather admitted after my grandmother died last year that her great grandmother was full blood indian and she was embaressed to admit it.. Why I dont know I think its awesome! Ive tried googling but everything takes me to ancestry.com and theyre so expensive! :-o Please help!!! For all I know I could have family on here!

Originally Posted by RoyalEnchntrss

Does anyone know of any good free sites to look up ancestry?? Ive been trying to find out more info since my grandfather admitted after my grandmother died last year that her great grandmother was full blood indian and she was embaressed to admit it.. Why I dont know I think its awesome! Ive tried googling but everything takes me to ancestry.com and theyre so expensive! :-o Please help!!! For all I know I could have family on here!

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Thats so interesting, My family had the same sort of thing, My Great grandparents were both Crow indian and my grandmother as well but she didn't like to admit it, she would say half or quarter. I think it was more to how they were treated and she moved a long way from home too. And back then, it was problems. I would love to find out more about my history too. I know some about Crow indian but not a lot.

There are so many sites- please PM me and I will try to help. Before you do though, please try to get information on where Grandma was born.

I think your best bet is going to be going to your local library and court house. Most of the sites will give you the same family anme but that doesn't mean that they are related to you. The more information you can get out of your older relitives the better

Originally Posted by eburgess

I think your best bet is going to be going to your local library and court house. Most of the sites will give you the same family anme but that doesn't mean that they are related to you. The more information you can get out of your older relitives the better

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lol well i cant do that. it was my dads mom and they lived in Daytona beach (well grandfather still does) and she was born in Bonifey, FL which was a very poor town. :-\\

I did that. I researched my great-great grandmother who lost several members of her family during the civil war. They were poor, but someone kept track and logged the family history. I even found a photo of one of her son's families that had an old woman in it (probably her) and a quote from my great-great grandfather talking about her, out of a book a distant relative wrote that I didn't know about!

Go to the better known ancestry sites and go as far back as you can, logging the tree on paper yourself. Google some of the names you find (in quotations so it only brings back exactly that name), and you may be surprised at what you find online!

I even went to the county where she died and looked in their ancestry books and census books... found very little additional information to what I found online. I also found websites from distant relatives who had far more info than I did... one even was able to tell me how my great-great grandfather died (pneumonia on his way home from fighting in Atlanta in the war) and how two of their very young sons died within a month of each other. Very tragic life she must've lead.

Wow thats awesome.. ive been trying to find people on Grandmothers side who would know more. I did post on the free messege board on Ancestry.com but no answer yet and I added two of the people to my buddylist but they havent been on lately lol I can only look so far though on Ancestry.com without paying! I get frusterated easily... lol

I believe Ancestry.com may have been free when I did research years ago, but you're right, I think you can only get so far without paying on that site.

I haven't done any geneaology searching lately, so I'm not familiar with current resources that are available online.

well captiva gave me a few headstarts so ill check them out tomorrow after work and see what i can come up with! Anyone else with anything feel free to post too! Or if anyone actually HAS a membership to Ancestry that would want to help me out. lol Im off to bed.. Blah!

The Mormons have a huge genealogy database. I found a website that tells you how to get started:

http://www.mycinnamontoast.com/fhc.html

thats so weird! a guy at work was telling me about that site today at lunch but he didn't know the site name... lol thank you!!