PT Digging through dusty public records isn't the only way to trace your roots.
Net surfers can now find their family trees online.
The site also pledges to add five genealogy databases per week. Helping people connect to their past or lost friends is a budding service on the Net. Family Tree Maker , Six Degrees of Separation , and Family Tree House allow users to peruse missing links in their history. The site also contains advertisements and an online shop to generate revenue. Other documents from the colonial period are also available.