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  • try reunion.com or ancestry.com
  • If you have ANYONE born before 1930 (your grandparents?) and their family names (your grandmother's maiden name), then you have a good chance. (Privacy laws limit some data to general before 70 years ago, though some states publish newer records online.) Ancestry.com has actual images of a lot of records, which is required for a true genealogy of your family. For the US, you can also use USGenWeb.org, select the state and county in which you wish to look and most have searches. You would be amazed what you can find by doing a search for a person's name in Google (Use quotes for the full name: ie: "John Q. Public", "John Public", "Public, John".) You put this under "Birth Certificates". If you can find you grandparents' birth certificates (or MAYBE death certificates), they usually have more information, such as mother and father's name. Same with Marriage certificates. I'm not particularly familiar with England's record-keeping, but I'd be willing to bet they're better at record-keeping, especially the old ones, than we are over here in the US.

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