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<p>[QUOTE="Northern Lights Lodge, post: 10808784, member: 13464"]It seems most families have a spicy corner in their family closet! I have found Familysearch.org a good engine to search. Run by the Mormons (whether or not you are a fan...) it _is_ "what" they do... researching archives and posting. I accidently stumbled on the site a couple years ago. It is free. I had tried Ancestry (month free from an auntie) and I found nothing that I could utilize.... nothing I typed in connected with anyone else. When I stumbled into Familysearch... I plugged in my name/hubby's - our parents' names and our grandparents names and BINGO... I had tree's back to forever on most lines! I've worked with them quite a lot since then...mostly adding family photos to relatives who were already there! I only found a few minor discrepancies - easily corrected. I will say, that they only post those antecedents who have been expired 100+ years. So that's why I had to add myself and 2 gen's. The information about our generation and our parents generation are still confidential UNLESS we choose to share it with someone - button to connect available. I'm so sorry that so many of your family things have been sold, lost or stolen... that makes me sad. Perhaps one day you'll run across a like item and can fill a hole.... </p><p><br /></p><p>Cheerio,</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Northern Lights Lodge, post: 10808784, member: 13464"]It seems most families have a spicy corner in their family closet! I have found Familysearch.org a good engine to search. Run by the Mormons (whether or not you are a fan...) it _is_ "what" they do... researching archives and posting. I accidently stumbled on the site a couple years ago. It is free. I had tried Ancestry (month free from an auntie) and I found nothing that I could utilize.... nothing I typed in connected with anyone else. When I stumbled into Familysearch... I plugged in my name/hubby's - our parents' names and our grandparents names and BINGO... I had tree's back to forever on most lines! I've worked with them quite a lot since then...mostly adding family photos to relatives who were already there! I only found a few minor discrepancies - easily corrected. I will say, that they only post those antecedents who have been expired 100+ years. So that's why I had to add myself and 2 gen's. The information about our generation and our parents generation are still confidential UNLESS we choose to share it with someone - button to connect available. I'm so sorry that so many of your family things have been sold, lost or stolen... that makes me sad. Perhaps one day you'll run across a like item and can fill a hole.... Cheerio, Leslie[/QUOTE]
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