Family Tree Searcher - find family trees at nine sites

Family Tree Searcher - find family trees at nine sites

Enter your ancestor information just once to search family trees at nine online family tree databases. This free service creates the best family tree searches based on your ancestry. This site also includes hints for searching your family tree.

Family Trees

Find ancestors at family tree sites using the Active Searches page on this site. That page makes it easier to find family trees on the Internet. For instructions on how to search for family trees, go to the Active Searches Tour.

Search family trees right now: Active Searches.

Family trees found using the Active Searches page are useful to:

	New Researchers: It provides an easy way to search the major sites that have family trees.
	Experienced Researchers: It allows you to save up to ten ancestors for repeated searching. This helps you go back to sites to see if a new family tree is available — without you needing to re-enter ancestor information.

Go to Active Searches for family trees.

My Family Tree

The Family Tree Searcher site grew out of efforts to trace my family trees. I found most of the clues to my ancestry by searching online, particularly for my great-grandmother Cora Burns (pictured at the right). Much to my surprise, the ancestry of Cora Burns can be traced back to the Quaker colonization in 1682. If you go back further, some lines of her ancestry have supposedly been traced back to nearly the year 1,000. I now have a lifetime hobby to verify all this information.

As I became fairly good at searching the various Web sites, friends and relatives have asked me to give them suggestions for searching for family trees. This Web site grew out of those suggestions.

Family Tree Searcher Review

"Overall this site is easy to use and very valuable. It provides a quick and easy way to try and get past an end-of-line ancestor. However, as with all genealogical information, it still requires verification of sources and conclusions. I recommend this site to any researcher who wants to locate other researchers on the same line. This Web site should be in the toolbox of every genealogist using the Web." Lawrence M. Hamilton, Jr., Hamilton National Genealogical Society, Inc. Click here for the full review of the Family Tree Searcher site.

Make your search easier

Easiest way to search family trees

Use Active Searches. This allows you to search major sites by entering your information just one time. Also, this determines the best type of search for you at a particular site (all sites are not created equal).

Go to Family Tree Searches.

For those just starting out

Are you just starting to research your ancestry? If so, the following site provides an easy set of decision charts to help you get started.

Go to Genealogy Fast Track.

Free advice

Have you started your genealogy search, but need suggestions that will make your search on the Internet more productive?

Go to Genealogy Search Advice.

Record keeping software

Try Family Tree Maker from Ancestry.com. It is probably the easiest and most complete resource for keeping track of your research. Family Tree Maker 2008, the latest version of the world’s best-selling family tree software, gives you an easy way to build and share your family tree — and preserve your family history.

Go to Family Tree Maker at Ancestry.com.

Family tree hints

Search hints for the nine family tree sites on the Active Searches page.

Go to Hints for Family Trees.

Save this site

Bookmark this page so that you can easily come back to it as you continue your family tree research.

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