Discover the History of Your Family Online
As a subscription-based genealogy research website, Ancestry.com has more than 7 billion records available online, most of which from US while others from countries such as UK, Canada, and some other European countries. To make it easier for first-time users to discover the history of their family, Ancestry.com has prepared 6 online lessons for anyone to get started.
As the world’s largest online family history resource website, Ancestry.com has a plentiful storage of records which will help you discover the history of your family in an efficient way. To access to the online service provided by Ancestry.com is quite easy. All you need to do is bring what you know about your family and Ancestry.com will help you with the online search of your family history. Then you can make a family history discovery by making a match between what you know and what is found online.
About Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com, formerly named the Generations Network, is an internet company which operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites. With the genealogical software developed and marketed itself, it offers a variety of genealogical services to residents in the United States and other 9 countries in the world. Founded in 1983, it is now the largest or-profit genealogy company in the world.
How Can You Discover Your Family Story with the Help of Ancestry.com?
- Requirements
- A computer with internet access.
- You need to provide things you know about your family.
- Step-By-Step Guide
- Visit the website of Ancestry.com at related link 1 below.
- Enter your first and last name, and your age and gender, select who you are searching for, your father’s family, mother’s family or someone else, and click “Get started”.
- As required, provide the information you have known about the person you want to search for, such as name, birth year, birth place, siblings, father’s name, mother’s name, etc., and click “Search for records”.
- In the next page, you can see some of the records Ancestry.com has found for you. Select the one you are interested in and view the detail, and you can make a match on the information to help you discover your family history.
- Get help about how to get started on Ancestry at related link 2 below.
- Read the Privacy Philosophy for more details at related link 3.
- Ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com
- How to Get Started on Ancestry: http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduser/sab_answer.php?p_faqid=1229&prop16=2
- The Privacy Philosophy of Ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacyphilosophy