Many US libraries offer Ancestry Library Edition free to patrons. Be sure to check out Ancestry Academy and Ancestry’s YouTube channel for beginner-friendly tutorials. This powerful subscription website is home to more than 11 billion old records, 100 million family trees and more than 15 million DNA profiles. Even those that seem similar often have very different records, trees, or tutorials that might supply just the thing you’re looking for next. That’s when you’ll come back here and look for another. Keep this list bookmarked, because at some point, the websites you’re using may run out of answers for you.
Then choose what sounds most interesting or relevant to you from your options for learning online, exploring regional and ethnic resources, and digging into beginner-friendly newspaper and tombstone records. For example, to begin with, choose just one family tree-building website and DNA testing company.
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