I'm planning on tracing relatives that I may have. I'm wondering if there is a program that will help me do it easier.

Thanks for the help.

There are genealogy programs that help organize your research. They are to genealogy what "Word" is to creative writing.

PAF, from the Mormons, is free.

Family Tree Maker ($39 and up, depending on what you buy bundled with it) is the market leader in the USA.

Roots Magic ($29) is better than either, in my opinion. I was a computer programmer for 34 years. I have helped design data bases. RM's data base design is top-notch.

Reunion is the only one I know of that runs on a Mac.

You still have to do the research. You enter names, dates, places, relationships. The program records them. Every once in a while you run a problem report, just like you spell check in Word after you finish each chapter of your novel. The program will tell you what errors it finds; for instance, someone born after they died. That is an easy mistake to make. I have muffed the century on someone born in 1870 and died in 1945. I have had two people and put #1's date in for #2. I have made typos; "1045" for the death instead of "1945".

You can Google "Genealogy software comparisons" to get professioanl reviewer's ratings on programs.

Just as "Word" makes it easier to revise one paragraph without having to re-type the whole chapter, a genealogy program makes it easy to revise a family tree when you discover the Michael Jablonski you thought was Joseph's brother is really his uncle.

The most interesting thing I learned was what our ancestors went through to come to this country and start a new life in a strange land and learn a new language. Some with only a few possessions.

I want to claim my indian heritage, but do not know how to begin to search for this information.

Oh my, so many ways of finding the infomation there is, and I have included the links you will need to help you. Of course, in addition to this, you can also use the resources at your local library, they are only too happy to help you with your searches and queries.

http://www.google.com

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/web

http://findarticles.com/

http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

http://www.aresearchguide.com/

http://www.geocities.com/athens/troy/886…

http://www.studentresearcher.com/search/…

http://www.cha cha.com/

race, religion, or nationality in your blood that you didn't know before? Are you related to someone famous? Anything unusual?

I'm related to Matt Leinart! Also I came over on the mayflower (well not me but my family) My family has a elementary school named after it. My dad loves to do genealogy stuff. My great-grandfather wrote a book about our family, many libraries and muesums (man I could never spell that lol) have it.

I would like to know which is the cheapest and most accurate – any suggestions would be wonderful!!!

"Best" is subjective – what do you need at the moment?

ancestry.com can be BEST, so the annual subscription is worth it. Censuses are historical documents, as are military records, draft cards, what have you. Others' family tree research accuracy varies. Even mine have been found to have typos.

rootsweb's resources are free to the user, excellent. Local histories and biographies are not always accurate but for the greatest part they're meant to be. The message boards are searchable, as are the email list archives.

familysearch.org. The collection of filmed historical documents is excellent and if found online, still free. I understand that will be changing in some cases. The user-submitted family history databases can be gems, or rife with outlandish errors – caveat freebie.

I live in a pretty big sub-urban town and am discovering so many different developments. However whenever I search online I seem to come up dry. I do so many Google searches and still find nothing.

Is there a website that exists somewhere that enables me to search for new AND existing subdivisions (developments)?

Google “your town” and “mls” or “board of realtors”.

MLS stands for multiple listing service.

You can also go to realtor.com.

Good luck.

or are you still searching? don't want to search? and why?

In junior high, I remember someone asking me, "Don't you want to know your 'real' family?" I didn't. I really didn't at that time. It wasn't until I was about 18 or 19 that the burning desire (need) to know began to set in.

I had no idea WHERE to begin for several years. Then I found a group in my area for adoptees & birth parents. I joined the group when I was 22. I waited about 3 months before sending my first letter, preparing myself emotionally for the search.

It took me several more months before I had the name of my birth mother and an older sister. I found my older sister first, and contacted her. The day we met, she called our (my) birth mom and put me on the phone. I met my birth mom & a brother the following weekend. I was 23 years old.

It took me 3 years longer to contact my birth father, although I had his information for at least a couple of years. After taking my son to the hospital in an ambulance while having a major seizure, I knew I needed to finish my search for medical information, if nothing else. And for my son's sake.

At 26, I called my birth father and asked for my medical history. He wanted to meet me. Wow! By then, miraculously, he was living in California where I'm from. I met him, his wife, and two more siblings.

Both have since passed away. I'm still in touch with a couple of my bio siblings.

Finding them is the best thing I've ever done for myself. I no longer feel "adopted", which I suppose means I no longer feel 'separated' . I know who I am, how I got here, who I take after (in all three of my families), and what happened…why I was adoped. Not because my mother didn't want me!

To those of you who know nothing about adoption, I really wish you would stop writing that mothers give up their babies because they don't want them!

Mothers gave up their babies out of fear, shame, being forced to by family, & because they had NO OTHER CHOICE. Especially in decades past.

I have to make a family tree out of the elements in the group "Noble Gases" for school. It says, "This should include pictures of the elements in your family/group [noble gases] and at least two compounds formed by each element. I have no idea how to do this. Help, someone?

As I recall, that would be a tall skinny tree! The two largest members of the group have electrons so far out from the nucleus, that Fluorine can entangle them, forming genuine compounds, with actual medical uses as toxic to viruses. Two compounds each? Haven't heard of anything like that. But I haven't looked lately, either! Regards, Larry.

Well I am doing this research project for my youth group and i need to find the genealogy of the apostle Peter. Can anyone tell me it or where to find it….or…..you can tell me where it is in the bible!

Simon (or Symon) "Cephas" (tr. Rocky), son of Jonah (Born about AD 1 in Bethesda, Israel, a town most probably located on the north end of the Sea of Galilee [John 1:14].

Brother: Andrew [John 1:35-42 states that Andrew, originally a disciple of John the Baptist, upon hearing John describe Jesus as the "Lamb of God" brought Peter to Jesus].

Married: the Synoptic Gospels relate how Peter's mother-in-law was healed when Peter was living in Capernaum [Matthew 8:14, Mark 1:29-31, Luke 4:38; see also I Corinthians 9:15]. Clement of Alexandra states that Peter was a father and that his wife also suffered martyrdom.

Occupation: Fisherman [Luke 5:3 states Peter owned his own boat]. Both Peter and Andrew were fishermen [Matthew 4:18-19; Mark 1:16-17].

Later, Peter was a missionary and head of the Church.

Writings: Ist and 2nd Peter in the New Testament.

Death: Rome, Italy, between AD 64 and 67; Margherita Guarducci theorizes that Peter was martyred after the Great Fire of Rome on 13 October AD 64. Tradition holds that he was crucified upside down.

Burial: Beneath St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy.

I'm doing a family tree for English homework on Queen Elisabeth (I live in France, but I'm English). I just have to put her parents, her (plus husband) and their children. I'm getting a bit stuck on Prince Charles, what do you put for Princess Diana? How can you show they were married – is there a symbol/sign?
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Thanks nottahobbit, I'll make your answer best answer when the question has expired.

Treat Diana as Charles's wife, regardless of whether she is alive or dead. She was the mother of his children, and that (the "genes") is what matters in GENEalogy.