How to Find my Family Tree

I first started my passion on how to find my family tree in the early sixties. I started with a plain A3 piece of paper with my mum and dad, grandma and grandad, aunts and uncles. I asked my parents what they knew of their past families. I did not get very far, I think they were hoping that I would soon loose interest. You know, I still have that piece of A3 paper and to this day I am still passionate about who they were and how they lived.

Over the years as the Internet made it possible to do research with genealogy records, my interest increased and I started to find success. After trying out a number of family tree websites I found the best to be Ancestry.co.uk Not only do they have one of the largest number of records but their search facility is the best I have found. The number of times you know the surname but not the maiden name of a marriage. If you can find the male side of the marriage record and you know the first name of the female, Ancestry.co.uk can often find a match.

"But how can I find my family tree?" I hear you ask. Well there are a number of things you can do to make a start.

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Who Will You Discover?

May I recommend that you first click on the "Start Now" button in the above image. This will take you to the "welcome page" where there is an excelent getting started video. It is about the first steps that will help you to get started. You will need to get some basic information to start your own online family tree. This you can do at no initial cost by opening an account with a user name and password. Only when you are ready to start your research will you need to take up an appropriate subscription to enable you to search the online records.

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