I've been doing genealogy myself for quite a while. Anyone interested in accessing ancestry.com for free can visit this link. http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com/aleweb/ale/do/login?userid=386K76R4CJ&password=welcome
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/yqc9zX04DXs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Actually there's a website that can trace your genealogy if you're willing to submit your saliva to this company. www.23andme.com In addition to finding out about a portion of my DNA profile, I know I have 3.1% Neanderthal DNA which is higher on average for a person of Hispanic descent like myself. The average Hispanic apparently has 2.7% Neanderthal in them meanwhile a black African will have 0 Neanderthal DNA. I'm 69.1% European 19.4% East-Asian/Native American 15% Native American 2.6% Sub-saharan African <0.1% Oceanian 0.0% Middle Eastern & North African 0.0% South Asian 8.9% Unassigned 100% Me Guess 23andme has swept that 8.9% under the rug for now. Thanks to our improving understanding of the physical universe we're apart of, we're getting a better and better idea of our past, our universes and our beginnings. These are exciting times.
To each their own, but I signed up and paid for a year, and got a bunch of research done (same thought process, two young kids), and it was solid and worth it. It's not super expensive or anything. You probably spend that much money on Starbucks or something else frivolous. Just remember to cancel before the auto-renew. Recently I saw this site: https://www.mocavo.com/ But haven't checked it out yet. Not sure their ultimate business strategy but for now they look like they are trying to play catch-up to ancestry, but on a free model. most of my side of the family perished in WWII (Eastern European Jew). I found some common relatives from my wife's side of the family who had done family trees via ancestry.com (which the paid membership allowed me to do) going back to the 1600's. These weren't people my wife or her immediate family knew, but someone somewhere who was a distant relative, had mapped out an extensive tree to include my wife's parents (through whatever research they found), and thus the ability to piggyback existing family trees.
Do the research while you can, I had a relative that recently passed away in a nursing home. He was a WW2 veteran with Alzheimer's...but thankfully for the family we recorded an interview with him about the war and life in general.
Holy ****...I've learned so much more about my father's side since I posted this 10 years ago. Including a lot of help from @B-Bob
