family history

[Redcoat]

what is the best website for researching family history WAAAY back? I found 3 Colonel Clevelands in the Rev. War and wanted to see if I am related in any way. I am related to Grover Cleveland and Moses Cleveland, as my grandmother found out.

Also, who were Grover Cleveland's brothers and sisters?

 

[Stumpkiller]

Geneology.com has some good free stuff. Lots of places hook you in with returns like "6 hits found in manifest of Mayflower Guestbook" but then you have to pay to play. Dad was a packrat and had a box of marriage announcements and obituaries clipped from newspapers going back into the 1800's. My brother has our line going back 32 generations from just spending countless hours doing searches on the names of these known relatives, and then continuing on with the results like peeling an onion. Luckily - we linked in with a not too distant relative into a line of the family tree that has a HUGE ancestrial database. Unfortunately, thay also have all the family weath. ::

The national park service is also compiling a database of graves on Federal sites

 

[Rebel]

Well, after countless hours we have managed to find out i am a relative of Simon Kenton on my dads side, and Capt. John Smith on my moms side. A lot of this was known before the internet became available to do searches.