or the U.K. Tribal Pages Probably one of the simplest family history sites on the internet that allows you to either create your family tree online or import the file from another site. Tribal Pages is one of those sites that allow you to upload your photos to your tree. You can also compare and match with more than 100,000 family trees and search their database of 80 million names and a million photographs. Researching your own family history is as easy as 1-2-3 Believe it or not, the ability to record the history, the situation of your family now as well as the prospects for their future could be a pastime that is rewarding in the long run. The following are some of the things you could do to know more about your own family history. Names like Westwood and Churchill, for example can mean an ancestor used to live west of the woods and near a church on top of a hill, but which woods and which church? Other names, like Dunlop are actually based on location, but since language has evolved, the word is no longer associated with its original meaning. The administrators of these centers are operated by members of the local LDS Church. Everyone and anyone is generally welcome to come and enter as well as use the resources available at the family history center. When are the family history centers open? Since there are more than three thousand family history centers available around the world, every center thereby determines its own opening hours. MSN can also be a good source. 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. It is the site for the biggest collection of records from UK. It also contains the census records from 1841-1901. Genealogical experts are also on the standby to help those who are new to genealogy. Surnamesite.com- this site contains archives of wills, obituaries, biographies, bible and funeral records, all having surnames on them.