The www.linkmyfamilytree.com website is a unique service which allows you to search for your ancestors in a massive database (currently 6 million ancestors but growing daily) and to share information which you already know about your ancestors with other members.

In effect it is a global family tree that can be used to link and extend what you know about your own family tree with information provided by other members all over the world.

The basic member service as described above is absolutely free although there is an option to take out a full membership, at a small cost (£7.99 per annum in the UK). The full membership will allow you to email other descendants and will include additional facilities, providing even more information about your ancestors.

Emailing other descendants will enable you to further your research and contact lost relatives. To take out a full membership now please click here. When using the website you need to know a couple of key concepts: -

An ancestor is defined as a person who was born before 1931.

A large number of ancestors have been pre-loaded into the database by www.linkmyfamilytree.com and come from various sources such as existing genealogy research and census details.

However the members themselves will have entered most ancestors. We encourage members to search for all ancestors that they know about and to associate themselves as descendants or to enter details of ancestors that they cannot find.

When a member associates himself or herself with an ancestor (e.g. to say this is my great-grandfather) all other descendant members of that ancestor will be informed by email. This will enable members to further their knowledge of their family tree and to contact lost relatives if they wish to.

A descendant is a member of www.linkmyfamilytree.com who has associated themselves with one or more ancestors i.e. when you use the website you can record your relationship to any number of ancestors.

Facilities are provided to enable you to view all the descendants associated with an ancestor and to view all the ancestors of a descendant – in this way you can follow the links to trace your family tree.

As time goes by and our membership increases more and more links will be established allowing you to extend your family tree further into the past and outwards to your current day relatives if you wish.