answers1: There is no one best website.......website are a great
resource but they are not the complete answer to research ancestry and
certainly not the place to start research <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/</a> this is
how you start, then there is lots of links to good websites on the
links page for various resources and I think on the documents page is
a 'top popular websites' list.............but most 'records' ( or
transcriptions) are not online and are likely never to be, so if you
are only using online resources you are short changing
yourself...................................
answers2: The best website for genealogy is the one that has the
record you're looking for. Where the record is will depend on where
and when your ancestors lived, what records they left behind, and
where there records are today. For example, many website focus only on
Civil War soldiers or only on English birth records. These records may
not be in a clearinghouse site. Using a compilation of websites rather
that one clearinghouse will get you better results. <br>
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Of the clearinghouses, ancestry.com (or its other national variations)
has the largest collection, so it is most likely to be of more use to
most people, but it works on a paid subscription. If your ancestors
were from India it could be downright useless as they don't have much
from India. For free websites familysearch.org has a number of
original records for some places. <br>
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And, not everything is online. Sometimes the best sources are offline.
answers3: The BEST site is the one that works for you. E.g., I could
not find the names of a great-grandmother's parents on ancestry.com or
any other genealogy site. I found that info at the Missouri State
Historical Archives Library! <br>
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Unless destroyed by fire, vermine, war, etc., you can expect to find
all info at the local level; only a tiny part of it has made its way
to all of the genealogy sites together. They have hundreds of millions
of records? So what? There are 7 BILLION people now alive! <br>
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So, search wherever your ancestors lived.
answers4: If <br>
You can afford $159 in one annual lump <br>
Your are white <br>
Most of your ancestors were in the USA by 1850 <br>
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Then Ancestry.com has the most records. <br>
If you are from, for instance, India or Uzbekistan or Cuba (We've had
questions by people from all three in the past year) there isn't any
web site to help you. <br>
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Ancestry is the best of you are an African-American, too, but you'll
probably dead-end in 1870. <br>
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If you can't afford it, and your library or Family History center
doesn't offer it, then it is a tossup between US Gen Web, the Mormon
sites and RootsWeb, for most records and widest appeal. <br>
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There are, however, over 400,000 sites devoted to Genealogy; one may
be better for some things than others.
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