How do you find ancestors for free?

Answer 1

Sites for genealogical searches include:

-- Family Search, sponsored by the Church of LDS (don't have to be an LDS member; they keep up with everybody's ancestors) ...it's at

-- Cyndi's List at the related link. Some of the links at Cyndi's List are free; some are not.

-- Cyndi's List has the SSDI - the Social Security Death Index. It's free, and if your ancestor was issued a social security number (and has died), you can find out interesting things like place and date of birth, place and date of death, &tc.

-- Pipl - it's supposed to be a live-person search engine of the deep web, but I've found lots of info on ancestors, too.

-- Ancestry.com - (but Ancestry.com, among others, may offer info for a fee that you can get elsewhere for free...)

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Answer 2

I am trying to trace my father's side of the family. He was born in Kenya and died in Britain. He died in 1973 and i am wondering who i can contact to find out when he came over to Britain and who with and how i go about getting his Birth Certificate