A Sea Of Red

OK, I know only grandmas and Mormons are into genealogy ... excpet for me. I'm a hoistory buff who has been hooked on researching my family's roots now for some time. I reveal this rather embarassing detail to alert you to something cool. In a deal with Good Morning America, Ancestry.com is giving away three days access with no strings attached. But you need to go there by November 3rd.

http://ancestry.com

Why would you want access to Ancestry.com? I'm glad you asked. All it takes is a simple search or two and you can have direct access to images of all kinds of great stuff. You can look up your parents or grandparents and see their entries int he US Census from 1930 on back. You can see the actual World War I and WWII draft registration cards of family members and find all kinds of cool stuff about what your family has done. I admit I'm a degenerate for researching this stuff. You can start an online family tree that will still work after your three days of free reearch access is done. And Ancestry.com's tree allows you to connect it into other trees and you will likely discover family members you never knew existed ... sometimes living close by.

I've focused most of my efforts the past couple of years on my great-grandfather who immigrated from Italy and my great-grandmother who came over from France. They divorced when my my grandmother was very young and my Mingori roots were always a family history. Because of my research I have discovered the tiny town in Northern Italy where he originated and have connected in with distant cousins there. They've invited my family to come stay with them and I admit I find that rather cool.

Even if you have no interest in building your family tree (incidentally I've traced my roots to British royalty on both my mother & father's side), just accessing all of the historical data is a blast for anyone who appreciates history.

My aunt has traced my mom's side of the family all the way back to 1250...I'm related to Dutch Royalty and a French axe-murderer. On my dad's side, I'm related to some Jamestown settler (not an original one, but before the Mayflower), and James Madison.

Sly Fox wrote: (incidentally I've traced my roots to British royalty on both my mother & father's side)

that explains the attitude

PAMedic's family tree:
Bashful, Doc, Sleepy, Sneezy...

Bah! You may have just started a new obsession for me. Thanks a lot.

I've been fighting with the darn program for 2 hours now with little success. Found a lot of my family but cannot add them into the tree. Though it advises me to copy them if the info is correct, there is no means to do so. Wondering if you don't have to join up as a paying member to have full functionality of the site?

neat concept though, just doesn't seem to work

No, you have temporary full access to the site. You need to build your tree from scratch and add int he new discoveries as you go.

I know a lot of the information but I've only had one match of relavant info and it was my mother's birth record. Also, while my last name is quite unusual here apprently it's like the most common thing in the world in England.