This is one site that gets a lot of attention it receives more than 1 million names a month. GeneaNet Originally from France, this site has an international index of sources both for offline and online family history resources. More than 200 million people use this site and the sources are available from nearly everywhere in the world and not just the U. Documents pertaining to a person s place of origin are tax and census records, also civil registration. Occupation- this could be relevant in cases where two people have the exact names. One way to distinguish one from the other is through their jobs. This could also give a hint on their status on the society. The familysearch program is a collection of computer programs and files that are there to assist individuals in their search for info on their ancestors. The familysearch program include the family history catalog library, the genealogical international index, the ancestral file (a program which allow other patrons to arrange history family info), the death social security index, the church Scottish records, the military US index. If you are more than eager to know where those features came from, a little genealogical search won t hurt. Genealogy is commonly known as the family tree . There are many online search engines that are now available, which could aid someone who would want to delve into family history work. Examples are: - Lists of Passengers on a Ship (as much as 10,000 passenger lists are available to be perused)- examples are Irish passenger lists to Canada and the US, Hamburg Emigration list, Germans from Russia to Canadian and US ports, US Immigration records on Ellis Island, Bremen in Germany to US list, Australian list. Search engines that are in foreign language can be accessed in Google. It offers 140 versions of international search engines. MSN can also be a good source. The site that claims to have the biggest collection of family history (which comes in free, thank goodness!) is FamilySearch.org. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints own this site. Other info usually the best ones are found in filing cabinets, attics, as well as bookshelves in countless houses of genealogists all over the world. Thanks to roostweb, uploading one s family tree to the project WorldConnect a family tree database submitted by various researchers of rootsweb.com. Currently, there are almost four hundred thousand names of ancestors that could be found at rootsweb.