The early years of genealogy research In primitive societies, genealogy is often established with a god, a hero or a fantastic animal as the earliest ancestor. Even the great Alexander of Macedonia traced his roots to the gods of Greece. It was not uncommon for a royal to claim a god as his grandfather. Members can also use their link to the WorldConnect Project to look at other family trees. If you want to communicate with other members, you can join their message board and exchange information. Best of all, you can request for free webspace with which to build your genealogy website. Genealogy.com This is a paying site, although it allows you a free trial membership for a limited period. The site that claims to have the biggest collection of family history (which comes in free, thank goodness!) is FamilySearch.org. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints own this site. The site has an assistant that could help the researcher on things like getting started, downloading forms that are useful to the search (pedigree charts or family group records), showing records that are relevant to the family name search (census and vital records, marriage and even death records) and the most important to you: the category on family organizations and surnames. This is one site that gets a lot of attention it receives more than 1 million names a month. GeneaNet Originally from France, this site has an international index of sources both for offline and online family history resources. More than 200 million people use this site and the sources are available from nearly everywhere in the world and not just the U. The following are some of the things you could do to know more about your own family history. Interview, interview, interview It is advisable that you list all the family members you know and would like to conduct an interview with. You can also consider the other relatives you could interview via phone or thru email, that is if they would be unavailable in person. Begin the process with your own name, after which, try to work backwards to the name of your parents and then the names of the parents of your parents, and so on. Check with legal documents It would be best to look for your own birth certificate as this basically contain the names of your parents as well as the dates of their births.