The first app allows you to have a public version of your family tree appear right in your own website. If you have been wanting to add your tree to your website, this will take the time and stress away from doing that.

The second is a facebook app that allows you to display your family tree on your facebook profile for all your friends and family to enjoy. They may even suddenly become interested and give you more family ancestors to add!

Both of these apps will remain up to date with your family tree on www.familytreeclub.com and both have privacy options which you can set from your settings page. If your logged into familytreeclub.com then you will be able to see all of your info with these apps including dates of birth etc, however other people will be bound by the privacy settings that you impose from the settings page.

You can use these apps by following the instructions on the public trees page.

Official records such as the Census are the best place to start, some good free places to try are Family Search, Passenger lists, FreeCen and FreeReg. You can also try non official sources such as other people’s genealogy research they they have uploaded to the internet and again Family Search have a great tool for this. We also have a growing database of unofficial genealogy records which you can search here.

Newspaper articles, which include marriages, obituaries, etc are also a great way to spark of memories that once laid dormant. Death certificates can also be of interest as they contain all sorts of informtion about how and where the person died. Birth, marriage and death certifictes can be obtained from Family Search and rootsweb (the rootsweb website can be very slow).   Burial information can also be obtained from the burial records.

Of course once you set someone of with stories about the past, be sure you’ve got a pen & paper ready as there may be no stopping them!