"It is a revered thing to see an ancient castle not in decay, but how much more it is to behold an ancient family which has stood against the waves and weathers of time." -- Francis Bacon Genealogy can be a hobby or an obsession, depending on how one looks at it. For me it's both. Since 2000 I have been painstakingly researching my family's history, tracing my roots back to the UK. If you are interested in my research, please visit my genealogy web site, Family Tree Project.

Detailed family research takes a lot of time, money, and resources. If you are trying to find your own family history, here are a few links to get you started.

• Ancestry.com offers free searches and pay-per-view BMD, census, and military records.
• Findmypast.com offers free searches and pay-per-view BMD, census, and passenger records.
• FreeBMD is a free searchable database for the England and Wales vital records.
• Familysearch.org is the Latter Day Saints web database, where you can search and view many records for free, including the U.S. 1880 and the U.K. 1881 censuses.
• Automated Genealogy is a free indexed database of the Canadian 1901, 1906, and 1911 censuses.
• For Canadian records, try looking in Library and Collections Canada

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