Thank you very much. I am trying to find out my grandmother's maden name. I don't have anyone on that side of the family that I can ask.
Lois ----- Original Message ----- From: karen schrade To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] family tree web sites Hi Lois, If you are looking for online records, There are several really helpful free family tree websites. these are screen reader friendly: the u. s. genweb. http://www.usgenweb.org/ if you go to that site, you'll find a list of states. enter on the state you want and you'll get the counties lists. some counties have more information than others. You can also check out rootsweb. it's free and you can search for your relatives names, narrowing it to places as well through the advanced search. http://www.rootsweb.com they have hundreds of mailing lists for surnames and places. if you know where your relative lived, you can find a mailing list for that place and search for the name. They also have lots of user contributed family trees. if you're lucky, you may find a distant cousin. that's called World Connect. then, you can check out the LDS genealogy site: http://www.familysearch.org if you type into the search box the name, first and last, then the place, and narrow it to time, i. e. 1900 to 1930,, you will get lots of hits. then, you can narrow that by birthplace, europe or us, death place, the same, birth year, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s etc. you may find more than you imagined. I've had very good luck with the family search site lately. It's a bit tricky to get used to but it's definitely doable. good luck. If you have other questions about genealogy and screen readers, i'd be happy to try to help off list. karen [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:41 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] family tree web sites Are there any family tree web sites that don't charge an arm and leg? Thanks for the help in advance. Lois For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
