Best Genealogy site?

square_bear

Hello again.
I've made some more progress and found a couple of very interesting pieces of information.
One thing, the lady relative I spoke of that was thought to have been adopted, I found that her mother remarried but the daughter retained her fathers name but her mother took on her new re-married name.
Also, the daughter had a brother who died a few days after birth.


Does anyone have any advice on how I could find old photos of relatives?
Can one obtain old passport photos from somewhere, for example?

Thanks

Grumpelstiltskin

Old photographs can be a pain. Unfortunately when people die sometimes photos are just dumped.

You can't access passport photos.

I have found photos of some of my ancestors online. Some Ancestry family trees have photos attached, and some were on a village history website.

ghostlymoron

I started a family tree some years ago when the choice was very limited. I used genesreunited.co.uk recently I decided to try again and renewed my subscription but later also had a free trial on ancestry. I found that things have advanced greatly and genesreunited now appears antiquate. Ancestry is far better: easy to navigate, good information and hints which all make tracing ancestors easy and quick. I regret renewing my genes subscription but at least I have been able to port my earlier research into my computer in the .ged format.
I would try several sites before you subscribe and pick the one you find easiest to use. It's a fascinating hobby, great for winter evenings. I'm back to 1775 on one branch but have yet to find any royal connections.

System

None. Unless you’re happy to have your personal details ‘loaned’ to the highest bidder.

DigForVictory

M'lady mother taught me a great deal about my family, but she was a bit hazy about pre-grandparents - fair enough, she'd learned not just her family but her husband's.

I uploaded the basics onto ancestry.com, and have pulled GEDCOM format copes of my work down as backups & am now back to about 1750 with a few family portraits and newspaper photo archive stuff for the faces. I'm very lucky that my great-grandmother enjoyed the hobby & published her researches (& some pretty scandalous stories) privately so I was able to sketch on a few more branches - to find through ancestry that other family members had either copies the same info or theirs matched.

My membership has lapsed but I may go back & get an international year to chase the details on the Australian & Commonwealth branches.

My one grouch about ancestry is I can't see how to prune branches I have inadvertently cloned...

harrys_nan

Check and see if your surname is part of The Guild of one name study.
https://one-name.org/

I am a member of my maternal name and have had help back to 1500's