a question about genealogy search ????

I am trying to find my family…do you know of any websites (free) to search records…..I live in Edmonson Co. KY and would be able to help any one on this end if your looking for family from here…..have been easy finding mothers family but my fathers family is difficult, he is dead and mother and dad deivorced when I was three. We had no contact…His mother and dads name were Lewis Holt and Velta Coats Holt. I was told by his 80 year old sister in- law that, Lewis Holt had three brothers, John, Hurbert, Edward and a sister Alvina…I found where Lewis and Velta were burried but would love to have there mother and dad’s information (birthdate, deathdate, when and were they were born and married…..can some one help
James M. Holt, Born: 04/13/1927 Died: 11/04/1975, Lewis Holt 1885 – 1961 velta Coats Holt 1900 – 1946. Lewis and Velta were married July 5, 1916 and are burried in Holly Springs Cemetery in Edmonson Co. KY
James is also burried in Edmonson Co KY

I’m going to put this at the top – I found them on the 1930 and 1910, but not the 1920. I found Velta & Louis’ children on the KBI, but some (or all) may still be living so I’ll send you what I found by e-mail.
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There are 500,000 web sites devoted to Genealogy. Here are a few. I’ll come back to this Q in a bit with some specifics. (See above)

If your line has been “done”, chance are it is on one of these two sites. When you search, don’t fill in all of the fields. Start with given name, surname and birth year. Use (+/-) 5 for the birth year. Expect to spend 15 – 45 minutes on each. Neither has any living people, so don’t enter your own name.

http://www.familysearch.com

(Mormon’s mega-site. Click on “Search”, to start with, or “Advanced Search”)

Roots Web

http://www.rootsweb.com

and in particular,

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi

(Roots Web World Connect; 460,000,000+ entries, of varying quality)

http://www.cyndislist.com/

(240,000+ links, all cross-indexed. If you want Welsh or Pennsylvania Dutch or Oregon or any other region, ethnic group or surname, chances are she has links for it.)

Ancestry.com

http://www.ancestry.com/

(which has free pages and FEE pages – so watch out)
and, in particular,

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx?ln=

Surname meanings and origins

http://www.tedpack.org/begingen.html

My own site: “How to Begin”

United States only:

http://www.usgenweb.net/

(Subdivided into state sites, which all have county sites.)
(The Canadians have Canadian Gen Web, by province)

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

(Social Security Death index – click on “Advanced”. You may find your grandparents.)

http://find.person.superpages.com/

(US Phone book, for looking up distant cousins)

In the USA, some public libraries have census image subscriptions. Many Family History Centers do too.

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