Members can also use their link to the WorldConnect Project to look at other family trees. If you want to communicate with other members, you can join their message board and exchange information. Best of all, you can request for free webspace with which to build your genealogy website. Genealogy.com This is a paying site, although it allows you a free trial membership for a limited period. If you're thinking of doing a genealogy search to find out more about your family tree, here are a few tips how: Start your genealogy search with the nearest source. That's your family. Ask your parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. Start with what is current and then work backwards. Look at family Bibles, birth, death and marriage certificates, diaries, letters, military certificates and scrapbooks. The same can be done if the place where the relative worked was in a church or in a hospital since most of these organizations usually have a website that feature its history and current projects. If the specialized websites were not that successful, another thing worth checking out is Ancestry.com. This has information way beyond the first world war especially when a lot of immigrants left Europe in the hopes of something better in the new world. One could also have a checklist of books and articles that the researcher finds to be relevant to the genealogical work. Some software could also be downloaded for free. Examples are the Brother s Keeper Genealogy software, Family Tree Legends (claiming to be a powerful software in genealogical search), Gedmark (used in securing any information on an author on GEDCOM files), GeneWeb (genealogy program that has Web interface), and GenFinder Freeware, TimeLine Maker (maker of charts that show histories, also, colored printouts There are also free tools for translation. Be sure to compare if you're serious about your family tree, since sites offer different services and different access levels. You could have a better deal with another site if you look hard enough. Ancestry World Tree Began as RootsWeb World Connect in 1996, this site is probably has the largest database of family names in the internet, with more than 250,000 entries. These search engines have so many indexes that could be very useful for one s search of family names or surnames, one would just need to know how to narrow down the many search results. These are just know-hows on starting your search for that unique last name and, eventually, your family history. Make use of the free researches that are being offered while they are there.