Ancestry.com

[Karen]

How do they have all of this information? I am intrigued.

Birth and death records, and marriage records are public information. Places figured out that people would like to be able to access it via computer, so put in the time, effort and money to get it all online!

[Genny]

that's really cool...I've always wondered about relatives and like who were they what kind of life did they live, ya know? But I did find out years back that my dad's great great grandparents were indians...weird huh?

[sirrahbed]

I did the ancestry.com trial last winter and loved it!! Yes be sure and save everything that you gather as a *.ged (gedcom) . If you go to familysearch.org that Randi mentioned, you can download their free genealogy software that will let you look at all of the entries you were able to gather. You can even store your family information at the LDS familysearch.org (Latter Day Saint) site.

I would love to take out the subscription service and do some more searching - maybe this winter!!

[Randi]

I will take the oportunity to thank you again, Sirrahbed for all the information you sent last year about life at an Air Force base. At the time, I didn't pay much attention as to where this relative had been stationed before (Missisippi), but since I now have a friend in Missisippi, I'm curious to find out where he was stationed. There can't be that many Air Force bases, though.

Had a look at ancestry.com also, and I did find the same person there, but it had less information than the other site - that is, until I sign up and pay.