Free Ancestors Search

Once a person decides to search for his/her ancestors, the next step is to find the sources that can provide the necessary information to construct the past or trace the origin of the family. The virtual space is flooded with free ancestry search tools which offer links to plenty of resources from which you can track down your ancestors. The wealth of information available online and the possibilities of diverse search criteria make it possible to get exactly what you are looking for without having to spend months on end perusing old records in libraries, offices, and dingy attics and store rooms. The vast collection of databases in each free ancestor search website enables a person to check census records, church records, newspaper archives, and many such documents to find out the details about the ancestors.

The search options offered by the online ancestor search tools are usually surname, locality, community, dates of birth or marriage or death, school or college or university, occupation, etc. Using multiple search options instead of employing a single criterion and advanced search options broaden the search and retrieve the search results more easily. The online search engines help to gather information from various records about a person who has lived in the recent or distant past. Some tools require manual search in the online data sources. But, most of the popular ancestry search sites do a comprehensive search in the sources and produce the results for the user; they browse through online government and official records, search addresses in online phone directories or city directories, look for information in alumni association websites, voter registration records, social security or pension records, online historical books, and many other genealogy records existing in the web.

The data collected thus can include the ancestor’s date and place of birth, educational and employment details, marriage and children, house and property, important achievements or participation in wars, involvement in disputes, emigration or immigration details, and so on.  The accuracy of the information gathered by the ancestry search tools have to be authenticated for a true and reliable recreation of family history. The verified data is then organized and published as charts or ancestry family trees. This can either be done online using the tools provided by the ancestry search sites or by downloading genealogy software. There are desktop applications and web applications. Most of the applications allow the import and export of data which can save a lot of time for the genealogist as there is no need to input data manually. The reports or family trees generated by the software are either uploaded to the web or they are printed as elaborate maps or booklets.