A recent press release from MyFamily.com, Inc. highlighted the growing fascination Americans have with family history.

Searching family history online can sometimes be frustrating, however. There are literally billions of online records and thousands of Web sites related to genealogy. The challenge is finding your family history in that mass of information. Three free Web sites make this easier. They are:

   1. Family Tree Searcher, http://www.familytreesearcher.com/. Most people
      start their search by looking for existing family trees. This site
      makes this easier by letting you enter information about your ancestor
      one time to search the eight largest family tree databases on the
      Internet. Also, this site determines the best type of search for you
      at a particular site. Not all sites can be searched in the same way.

   2. Free Genealogy Search Help for Google,
      http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/. Other people start their search
      by entering family names on search engines such as Google. They hope
      to find Web sites with their family information. They may, however,
      get thousands of results, most of which do not apply to their family.
      This site minimizes this problem by suggesting more complex ways of
      using Google to search for your ancestors. This should provide you
      with better results.

   3. Genealogy Search Advice, http://www.genealogy-search-advice.com/. For
      many people, there are no existing family trees or Web sites. There
      are still many other useful records online. Knowing where to start,
      however, can be challenging. This site's advice feature will prompt
      you with questions about what you already know. Your answers help
      create a free, customized plan on what you might do and where you
      might look in order to develop your research more fully.

"These sites grew out of efforts to trace my family history," noted Doug Barry, the Webmaster for all three sites. "I found most of the clues to my ancestry by searching online, particularly for my great-grandmother Cora Burns. Much to my surprise, her ancestry can be traced back to the Quaker colonization in 1682. As I became fairly good at searching the various Web sites and online records, friends and relatives asked me to give them suggestions to improve their searches. Since I am a fairly technical person, it was easier for me to program these sites than explain all the details."

Source: Barry & Associates, Inc.

CONTACT: Douglas K. Barry of Barry & Associates, Inc., +1-952-892-6113,
doug@barryandassociates.com

Web site: http://www.barryandassociates.com/
http://www.familytreesearcher.com/
http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/
http://www.genealogy-search-advice.com/