Where can i find information on my grandparents without paying a huge fee?

I know their birth and death dates, and where they died. I'd like to find out where they were born and who their parents and other family members were. I know that there are many genealogy sites, but I don't want to pay $200+ a year for something I've only got a passing interest in. Any help would be appreciated.|||You should have your birth certificate and that should have your parents names on it. Now if your parents are living you should ask them for copies of their birth certificates for your records and they should have the names of your grandparents on them. If your parents are deceased you will be able to order their birth certificates. Then do the same thing with you grandparents if birth records go back that far鈥hey on go back to the early 1900s. So, by ordering these documents you have gone to relatively little expense and you have three generations plus yourself and you have it documented with primary documents. If for some reason this solution does not work for you or you want to research a bit more, I have included a basic plan for a beginner with links that generally only requires things that you already have link your computer and service provider.





First, start by asking all your living relatives about family history and get any documents or pictures they are willing to share with you for your files. You can photocopy or scan these and return them to their owner. Your public libraries will most likely have both Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest.com free for anyone to use while at the library and with a library card you can use Heritage Quest at home.





Another free online resource is U.S. GenWeb at: http://www.usgenweb.org/ they have a page for every state and everything is free. Then there is Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/, a free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames and leave queries on the message boards. Additionally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention FamilySearch.org they have many free online records and are digitizing more every day, all free. Their website is: http://www.familysearch.org/. Be sure to check each state that you need information from as many have their own projects, for example, the state of Missouri has a great website that has many free source documents online at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/ and South Carolina has many free wills at http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinear鈥?/a>





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each have many links for both free and paid sites.





I鈥檓 sure I could come up with many more websites but these should keep you busy for a while and there should be lots of family history to be found for free with all these websites.|||The easiest way is to request a copy of their death certificates. It normally lists their place of birth and also their parents names. As a descendant you have the legal right to the information. And it is cheaper than a subscription to a genealogy site.|||Don't neglect to talk to all your living relatives (while they're still here). You may be surprised what they know about the family. One person may have one detail while another may know something else. I was the annoying child who asked my grandparents so many questions and now family members call me when they want information.|||You can go look up the public records where they lived......doesn't cost you a dime but time......you can track down public census records with there names and dates you already have.....