Who or which company would do the best family history and genealogy research for me in Utah?
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I know if you go to the Mormon Church, they can provide tons of answers about your genealogy, and probably suggest a company or person who would do the work for you.
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I research alot on EllisIsland.org   you have to register, but it's a free site.     Ancestry.com costs!
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this site is considered the best for geneology. you might have to register at some point but i have not had to for my research and it is totally free.
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Ancestry.com is great to start with, they have taken over everything they could get their hands on so they have all the archives.  If you can find one household in the Census records you'll find you can go back from there.  You'll find enough just from Ancestry to make a pretty good tree, and through their message boards you're likely to run into distant cousins looking at the same thing.
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Go to a family tree geneology site.
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Check out RootsWeb.com and Ancestry.com\nRootsWeb is the oldest and largest free genealogy site.
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Genealogy is not as simple as typing in a few words and hitting enter.  I have been working on my families for over twenty-five years now.\nI would suggest you start at either  \nwww.familysearch.org \nwww.rootsweb.com\nHowever, you will have so much more fun if you trace your family the old fashioned way.  Search archives, courthouses, cemeteries and libraries.\nHappy hunting.
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EllisIsland.com; Genealogy.com; also, the Mormon's have a genealogy site, which might be free.\n\nGood luck!  We've found relatives on one side of the family, but are having a very hard time with the other side--the names are very common ones, and we don't have exact birth dates.
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ancestry.com will accommodate you to a certain point and then will ask you if you want to subscribe. the information you get at first is basic at best, but , it seems as though that is what you're looking for. this web site is good because  it presents many different angles to get information. good luck
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Begin where I did.  The LDS church has vast genealogical resources.  By just plugging in my great grandfather's name and his approximate dates I was able to trace the family all the way back to 1640. If I could do this with a common last name, anybody can do it!\n\nYour family just might be on one of the existing family trees at the genealogy sites.  The sites do not list the living family members, so you will have to get the names of your grand parents or earlier ancestors. The chart you find might be for a great-grand uncle, but you can get close.\n\nIt can be done!
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You can start by asking family members as much as you can about parents, grandparents etc. including places of birth etc. After you get all that information a good place to start is www.rootsweb.com, it is a free ancestry site that is hosted by www.ancestry.com. You can look up ancestors by surname (last name), locations (country,state,county,and city). There are many other headings that can help you. You can also search family trees, someone else may have already done research on one of your ancestors. You can also request a look-up and someone might research census records from 1790-1910 to help you. There is also a site www.familysearch.org., it is also a free site hosted by the LDS (Church of The Latter Day Saints), they have birth, death, marriage and the census from 1880.
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I maintain the site for my church, and I subscribe to the mailing list for web keepers in my denomination. We discuss this all the time.\n\nI also do genealogy as a hobby. I often tell people the best web page I ever saw had a 25% grey background and nothing but line after line of black courier text. It was  a transcription of the 1850 census for Monroe County VA (Now WV) with about 6 dozen of my dead ancestors on it.\n\nSo - content. It has what I'm looking for. It should be laid out in a logical order for first-time visitors. People who visit every week will learn how to navigate it quickly enough. Make t easy for the first-timers.\n\nAppearance - clean, without useless decorations. A light background, dark text, text links blue and underlined, nothing else blue or underlined. Some of my fellow church web keepers disagree with me on this. My argument was that about 1 time in 20 I use my ATM card at a retail store, I push the wrong button in the wrong sequence and have to start over, because each ATM scanning port seems to have a slightly different standard. I don't want to have to play "Guess which button"; I want to pay for my loaf of bread and get home. The same on a web page; I don't want to have to guess where the text links are. I want them to be blue and underlined, just like they are on the other 90% of the sites I visit.\n\nSome genealogy sites have antique floral wallpaper and "Take Me back to West Virginia" musical background. I consider both useless decorations.\n\nBread crumbs or a navigation bar on each page help. "Bread Crumbs" show you where you are. Each word or phrase is a link. So, on a query board for Monroe County, at the top you'd see:\n\nNorth America -> USA -> West Virginia -> Monroe County\n\nClicking on the "USA" link would take you to a page of states, and so forth. (the Ancestry.com query boards do this really well.)\n\n80% - 90% of visitors to the four sites I maintain come to them through an interior page via a search engine. At least half of them have come by mistake. So, it should be clear at the top what the page has and what it is about. \n\nMy church site, for instance, is in Modesto, California. It has a map showing how to find us. We get lots of visits from people looking for a map of Modesto.\n\nThere should be a way to get to the home page on every page, at the very least. If your site had tiers, it should be easy to get "up" one tier. (For instance, if your site had mountain bikes for sale, pictures of your trip to the Alps and recipies your grandmother handed down to you, and I found the apple pie recipie, I should be able to get "up" to the recipie index with one click.)\n\nInformation - people who are buying things want prices. People looking for a church want to know where and when they meet, and, for men in California at least, if they should wear a tie. Exactly what first-time visitors want depends on the site. Whatever it is, they should be able to find it easily.\n\nOne of my pet peeves is fixed text size. Some web designers think everyone in the world has 20/20 vision and a 19-inch monitor. We don't A quality web page will allow people to enlarge or reduce the text size, and its design will not suffer. It should work at any resolution, too.\n\nI also hate it when people put a full-size picture on a site and set the dimensions to 100x200 or so; I have to wait while my browser downloads 4 MB, then wait again while it shrinks the picture.\n\nIf you have more than 100 pages, you should consider a mini-search engine. If you get one, put a link labeled "Search this site" on every page.
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You can ask the Kansas State Historical Society but they do charge for research:\n\nhttp://www.kshs.org/contact/ask_question.htm\n\nOr you could try contacting the Phillip County Genealogical Society:\n\nhttp://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/phillips/plgensoc.html
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http://www.familysearch.org/\n\nGeneology site of the Mormon Church.  However anyone can use it and it is FREE!  \n\nIt is a very good site for family research.\n\nGood luck
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use could do keyword searches\ngenealogy surname ancestor ancestry census\n\n\nor better yet look at the genealogy beginner site below on how to start. (first one listed)\n\ntry one of the sites below
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try the national geneological registry of the Mormon Church.  They keep the nationwide records.