What other website besides ancestry.com can I use to find my grandparents?
I really want to learn more about my grandpa. He’s italian. He was in the world war ll and died at the age 72 twenty years ago.Please help I’m really interested in my past.
If you find Ancestry.Com too pricey, your public library might have a subscription to it you can use for free.
Ancestry.Com’s real value is the amount of original source records they have. You have to distinguish between their records and their subscriber submitted family trees. Family Trees on any website must be viewed cautiously. They are not submitted by some expert working for the website but by folks like you and me and there are errors. They are seldom documented or they are poorly documented and documentation is the meat of genealogy. You frequently will see different information on the same people from different subscribers. Then you will see the absolute same info on the same people from different subscribers but that doesn’t mean it is accurate. A lot of people copy without verifying. If you disagree with anything someone might have on your family, those that run the websites will tell you that is between you and the other subscriber.
Websites that only have family trees as a result aren’t worth a plug nickel except to be used as clues only as to where to get the documentation.
Ancestry.Com has all the U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have lots of military draft and enlistment records. They have many immigration records and land records. They have indexes to vital records to many U.S. states.
Now if you want to find your grandfather’s parents if you can obtain his death certificate it might have that information. A better source will probably be his application for a social security number. The 2 I ordered for someone had both parents’ name and since it was given by the applicants themselves rather than a widow or widower trying to remember the maiden name of a mother or where they were born, it is probably a more reliable records.
Rootsweb(free site) has the Social Security Death Index. You don’t need a social security number as long as you have his name. When you locate him on the SSDI off to the right is SS-5. Just click on that and it will pull up a letter to the Social Security Administration. All you need to do is put your return address on it, attach a $27 check and mail it.
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
A good free source is a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world’s largest genealogical collection. Their FHCs can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.
I have never had them to try and convert me or have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. A lot of their volunteers are not Mormon. Just visit their free website, FamilySearch.org, to get the hours for the general public to the nearest Mormon FHC.
The first poster mentioned the National Archives. I have a friend whose mother came from Calabria and father from Sicily. She said she has found a lot of information on her family there. She has a niece who is a lawyer in D. C. and visits her and while there goes to the National Archives. She said when you first go there you go through a lot of rigmarole to get signed up and get a name tag. Once you get your tag any time you go back just have your tag on and you are in. They have volunteers there to help you.
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