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You don’t pay to “look up” your family tree. You pay various services that make original records available or even just for photocopies of individual records while you “research” your family tree.There isn’t a single place where your ancestor magically exists already unless someone related to you has already researched and published their work and it includes all or part of your personal ancestry.I, for example, am a member of several historical societies around the country. There’s usually an annual membership fee and it supports the efforts of the group to keep and share the history of a given region. It may also support their efforts to teach residents about their community history. They might have volunteers who will look up records for you as a member or if not a member for a nominal fee or contribution.I am also a subscriber/member to several services, such as Ancestry.com, to access published records. One example of those records are the United States federal census from 1790 to 1940. Another are various state census’ usually collected on the “5” year (1855, 1865, etc). Ancestry also includes a feature that allows me to create and update several databases called “family trees”. I can create as many as I need but one ‘tree’ is my primary.I also purchased/licensed several apps that are installed on my desktop computer. Family Tree Maker, Roots Magic, Gramps, and others. Some are free and some are not. Each has a unique set of reports that I like to use. Family Tree Maker and Roots Magic include a feature to ‘sync’ or exchange family tree data with Ancestry. These are great tools for researching my ancestry and building my family tree database(s).From time to time, I visit courthouses, libraries, historical societies, and other places where historical information or actual records are kept. There are so many records that are not online - through Ancestry or some other website - onsite visits can fill in research holes. I found the street my great-great-grandfather lived on in 1859 through a ‘city directory’ (forerunner to phone books). These places might charge an entrance fee, ask for a donation, ask you to become a supporting member or they might just charge 25 cents for a photocopy of each record.There are also people who research other peoples genealogy for a fee. They are professional genealogists or even amateurs with access to unique records.In the end, though, there isn’t a place where your ‘complete’ ancestry is magically available. And, honestly, that’s part of the fun… it’s a detective ‘game’, it’s history, and it’s personal.

There are quite a few websites to help you build a family tree. Too many to list but a few include:Ancestry.com has one of the largest collections of records from around the world. There are versions of the site for different countries as well. There is a subscription fee but you can either pay month-to-month, twice a year or annually… plus there are different levels based on what records you need access to. You can create an unlimited number of public or private family tree databases.Ancestry also owns Newspapers.com ($), Archives.com ($), Findagrave.com (free), Fold3.com ($), Rootsweb.com (free) and more. Some of these sites require an additional fee while others are free.Ancestry also offers autosomal DNA testing (atDNA) to discover your ethnic lineage and match other users who have tested with Ancestry DNA. One user can manage several DNA test kits (results) and each kit can be attached to a person in your family tree to help improve relationship information. The ThruLines feature provides family research hints by combining information from other trees on the site. A new health report has also been released recently, but it requires a doctor’s prescription.FamilySearch.org has one of the largest collections of records from around the world and it’s free to use. You can have only one tree and other users can modify your tree so that can be a challenge sometimes.FindMyPast.com is primarily for British or Irish research. It is a paid site.MyHeritage.com has a large collection of records. It requires a paid subscription and integrates their atDNA testing with your family tree.WikiTree.com does not include any records but it does allow users to contribute to the one tree. That is, there is only one family tree on this site and everyone is an editor. Each ‘person’ in the tree is managed by one user but other users can request changes, such as merging duplicates or providing additional information. It is also free.Q: What are some good websites for doing a family tree?

1. Marico is named after its founder, Harsh Mariwala, whose grandfather - Vallabhdas Vasanji - came to be known as Mariwala because of his proficiency in trading pepper, which in Gujarati is known as Mari.2. BSE was founded as 'The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association' in 1875. Its famous index is called the Sensex which stands for Sensitivity Index. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is the biggest stock exchange in the world in terms of the number of listed companies on an exchange with over 5,500 listed companies. BSE is also the oldest stock exchange in Asia.3. Infosys’ IPO was undersubscribed but Morgan Stanley bailed the company by picking up 13% of equity at the offer price of Rs 95 per share. Infosys shares opened at Rs 145 a share, almost a 60% premium on the day of listing.4. Wipro stands for "Western India Palm Refined Oil Limited". It was incorporated on 29 December 1945 in Amalner, Maharashtra by Mohamed Premji and later abbreviated to "Wipro". It was initially set up as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oils in Amalner, Maharashtra.5. Amalner's (Maharashtra) residents hold Rs 3000-crore worth shares of Wipro. Shantilal Jain, who worked at the factory in Amalner, bought one share at a face value of Rs 100. The worth of that Rs 100 share, after adjusting for splits and bonuses, is now Rs 5.5 crore. Jain, who is 77, has sold some of it but still holds stock valued at more than Rs 1 crore.6. Dmart has 1/10th of stores when compared to Future Retail, and yet Dmart earns a higher net profit and almost the same revenue.7. One of India's finance minister founded TTK Prestige. It was in the year 1928 that T.T. Krishnamachari, the fourth finance minister of India founded TTK Prestige, one of the oldest business houses in the country today.8. Birla family owns World’s second-largest mobile company (Voda-Idea), the largest Indian Fashion company, World’s largest Aluminium rolling company and operates in over 35 countries.Birla Haveli in Pilani, Rajasthan – This is where the story began – A journey of Asia’s richest business family. The business empire was started by a small cotton trader, Shiv Narayan Birla way back in the 1860s.Currently, the Birla Company has transformed into multiple companies in over 35 countries and together it has more employees than Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Airbus combined.Here’s what the companies are into!9. KPIT was Co-founded in 1990 by Ravi Pandit and Kishor Patil as KPIT Infosystems."KP" stands for Kirtane & Pandit which is a CA firm started by Mr. B.R Pandit. (Father of Mr. Ravi Pandit).10. Trivia - Did you know Hinduja Group owns the World's largest detonator company (GOCL Corporation)? More in quotation below.“Just near the Buckingham Palace in London, the Hinduja’s own a 25 bedroom 500 million USD house. Hinduja Family is now the richest family in the United Kingdom!Hinduja Business Empire was started way back in 1914 by a small trader from Sindh, Seth Parmanand Hinduja. He started trading goods between India and Iran. And 5 years later he established his first international office in Iran.Now (100 years later) it has transformed into a multinational conglomerate with a presence in 100+ countries and 125000+ employees.11. Dabur stands for Daktar Burman (Da+Bur). It is an iconic company in India which is more than 130 years old. In the mid-1880s, an Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. S.K. Burman concocted medicines for diseases like cholera and malaria. He went on to set up Dabur India Ltd in 1884 to mass-produce his Ayurvedic formulations. The current chairman, Dr. Anand Burman, and Vice Chairman Amit Burman are part of the fifth generation of the Burman family.12. Indigo means India on the go and the reason why all their flight names start with 6E is to rhyme with Sexy.13. Rs 25000 invested in Motherson Sumi IPO is now worth Rs 4.5 Cr today at CMP of Rs 100. You would be holding more than 3.84 lac shares of the company today if you had just 1000 shares of the company during the year of the IPO in 1993. That's due to the number of splits and bonuses given by the company to shareholders in its 26 years of listing years. Rs 4.5 crore value includes around Rs 40 lakhs plus in dividends alone. If you consider the value at all-time high of 270 then those 1000 shares would be worth in excess of Rs 11 crores.14. When Faith meets the financial world -Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD or Tirupati Balaji) opened a demat account in 2015 at Stock Holding Corporation of India to keep the donated shares. This is the first globally for shrine management.15. Nevill Vintcent (a South African Aviator and World War I British Royal Air force veteran) seeded the idea of starting an airline to JRD Tata. The duo started Tata Airlines in 1932. Nevill was to get 1/3rd of profits and all investments were to be done by Tata Sons.16. The Tata group has 24 listed companies. Do you know them all?17. India is globally the 2nd largest footwear producer after China. India’s footwear production accounts for 9% of the global annual production of 22 billion pairs China produces over 60% of the total. (Source - Khadim Annual Report)18. Dr. Lal Path Labs was started in 1949, by the late Dr. S. K. Lal. The first laboratory was set up by Dr. S.K Lal in Delhi, India. Dr. Lal was a Junior Doctor in the British Indian Army.19. Out of the total 1,730 CNG stations in India, GAIL operates 1,114 CNG stations representing 64% share.20. Larsen & Toubro originated from a company founded in 1936 in Mumbai by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-Larsen and Søren Kristian Toubro. The company began as a representative of Danish manufacturers of dairy equipment.21. Bajaj Finance is the top lender in consumer electronics, digital and lifestyle products, helping fund 1 out of every 4 flatscreen TV sets sold in India.22. Tata Sumo got its unique name from the former MD of Tata Motors, Sumant Moolgaokar. The name Sumo is the result of joining the first syllables of his first and last name. The iconic MPV became one of the best-known vehicles around during its era.23. Naukri has 6.3 crore resumes in its database as of 2019. 627 million Internet users in India. Labour force participation rate 54% (2018), so 339 million who are internet users and in the labour force. So Naukri has ~19% of the addressable market's resumes.24. ACC Limited stands for The Associated Cement Companies Limited. It was formed In 1936 when ten cement companies belonging to Tatas, Khataus, Killick Nixon and F.E Dinshaw groups were merged.25. Cipla was founded by Khwaja Abdul Hamied as 'The Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Laboratories (C I P L A)' in 1935 in Mumbai.26. Voltas Limited was incorporated on 6 September 1954 in Mumbai. It was a collaboration between Tata Sons and Volkart Brothers (Vol+Tas). It is an Indian company specializing in air conditioning and cooling technology.27. A listed dairy company founded by a CM?Heritage Group - Founded in 1992 by Telugu Desam Party Chief and also the ex-CM of Andhra Pradesh Shri Nara Chandrababu Naidu. Future Retail bought Heritage Foods' retail business in Nov 2016.28. Reliance retail is unlisted and is a behemoth. Its sales, stores, EBIT, area is more than all retailers combined!29. When we hear Reliance Industries, we think of oil, telecom or retail but do we think of Mangoes? But RIL is also one of the top exporters and growers of mangoes! Here's the story!Let’s quickly go back to 1997. One of the biggest weaknesses of Reliance at that time was the huge amount of pollution it was causing. So after seeing this as a threat from the Pollution Control Boards, Reliance began to convert the wastelands of Jamnagar into a mango orchard near the refineries as way to control pollution.Reliance Industries, Essar Group and Sanghi Industries which are better known for their largest single-location refineries and cement plant are also amongst the country’s leading mango producers. Reliance Industries grows 127 varieties of mango in a 600-acre green belt at its Jamnagar Refinery complex and looks to beat Israel and Brazil in productivity.These countries produced 8-10 tonnes of mango per acre against India’s average of 3-4 tonnes. Reliance has named the mango orchard Dhirubhai Ambani Lakhibag Amrayee after a mango grove Mughal Emperor Akbar created in the 16th century. Akbar had planted 1 lakh mango trees in the estate he called Lakhibag in Darbhanga in Bihar, the Ambani Lakhibag has more than 1.38 lakh trees. Reliance encourages farmers to visit its orchards and learn from its innovative practices. It also distributes 1 lakh free saplings to farmers every year, says Nathwani, who was a close confidant of Dhirubhai Ambani. (Book Source – Business Maharajas by Gita Piramal)30. No Indian Institution was affected as badly as ICICI bank by the global financial crisis. So deep were the concerns over ICICI bank at that time that Infosys, whose founder NR Narayana Murthy was once on the ICICI bank board, withdrew Rs 1000 Cr of its fixed deposits with the bank and moved them to the State Bank of India. The main trigger for this panic was that ICICI Bank’s global ambition had resulted in the private lender being the only institution to be directly hit by the Lehman collapse because of its UK arm’s $80 million USD exposure to the failed investment bank.31. The Origins of Godrej Industries. How one newspaper Ad created one of the most known consumer companies in India and created the iconic almirah and locker.Godrej Industries was started by Ardeshir Godrej. He was an unsuccessful lawyer, and later he started manufacturing surgical equipment but failed again. He worked as an assistant as well in Pharmacy store but left that too. One day he read a newspaper article by the Police Commissioner of Mumbai who called for better security of Homes & Offices due to the rise of burglary incidents. After reading that, he decided to try to make the best lock. He learned all about locks, took a loan in 1897 and in a tiny shed in Central Mumbai, the 29-year-old started manufacturing anchor brand locks.Currently, the company has 3000+ acres in Mumbai!32. Spicejet was incorporated as Modi Luft in March 1984 when the company was established by Indian industrialist S. K. Modi along with Lufthansa (and hence the name Modi Luft) to provide private air taxi services. Its ticker symbol is still ‘MODILUFT’ on the BSE.33. Titan Company Limited (Titan), was a joint venture between the Tata Group and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), commenced its operations in 1984 under the name Titan Watches Limited. Titan is the fifth largest integrated own brand watch manufacturer in the world.34. Bajaj Auto’s famous selling scooter ‘Chetak’ is named after the legendary horse of Indian warrior Rana Pratap Singh35. Dhirubhai Ambani ji is known to have actually ignited the equity investing flame in India. Here's a snippet from a book which confirms the statement. Fun activity - see the public individual shareholder numbers of RIL currently and compare it with number of brokerage accounts.Dhirubhai single-handedly energized the Indian Capital Market. Before the huge Reliance Petrochemicals issue, rough rule of thumb calculations suggested there were 30 lakh shareholders in the country. In 1988, the government reckoned there were 100 lakh shareholders. To arrive at this key statistic, it did not use sophisticated tools of calculation or market research but simply multiplied the number of Reliance debentures by three. Mr. Ambani was more thorough, he painstakingly garnered information on present and potential investors, and the quality of his data surpassed that of the biggest and best merchant banks.36. Did you know - Reliance petrochemicals IPO attracted second-largest shareholder number of 1.6 million in the world (Arnd 1995). 1st position was held by British gas with 3.1 million. This is just one of the many amazing facts on this oil to Telecom behemoth.37. When a World Bank team visited 24 leading textile Mills in India in 1975, they said only one factory stood out as excellent w.r.t developing country standards. That factory was of Reliance. The rest they described as slums. Book source- Business Maharajas by Gita Piramal.38. The supercomputer used in BSE is Tandem Himalaya.39. Did you know KEC was Asia's first power transmission company? Ramjibhai Kamani founded Kamani Engineering Corporation (KEC) in 1945 which became the 1st electric power transmission company in Asia and a pioneer in power transmission & railway electrification. Currently, it is India's second-largest manufacturer of electric power transmission towers and one of the largest Power Transmission Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) companies in the world.40. IIFL was founded as Probity Research and Services Private Limited which provided research on the Indian economy, businesses, and corporates. The name was later changed to India Infoline Limited. IIFL was founded on Oct 17, 1995, by Nirmal Jain, a 1986 graduate from the University of Mumbai and an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Mr. Jain was previously employed with Hindustan Lever Limited.41. Force Motors' original name was Bajaj Tempo. It is fully vertically integrated, making its own engines, chassis, gearboxes, axles, bodies, etc. for its entire product range. It is an Indian automotive manufacturer, the flagship company of the Dr. Abhay Firodia Group. From 1958 until 2005 the company was known as Bajaj Tempo Motors because it originated as a joint venture between Bachraj Trading Ltd. and Germany’s Tempo. It is India’s largest van maker.42. Varroc Engineering does 100% lighting for the Tesla Model S and the Model X. The company's other prominent buyers include Skoda Auto, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bentley Motors, Bajaj Auto and KTM.43. The company today known as BPCL started off as Rangoon oil company and thereafter Burmah Oil, an oil exploration company set up to explore the new discoveries off Assam and Burma during the British colonial rule of India.44. GAIL presently owns and operates more than 11500 km of natural gas pipeline and about 2300 Km LPG pipeline across India (Making it the World's largest pipeline infrastructure setup).If that's not enough, it plans to take this to 16000 km by 2020!Closest competitors - West-East Gas Pipeline: 8,707km (China)GASUN, Brazil: 4,989km (Brazil)Yamal-Europe Pipeline: 4,196km (Western Siberia in Russia to Austria)45. M&M was co-founded with Pakistan's 1st finance minister!Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) was set up as a steel trading company in 1945 in Ludhiana as Mahindra & Mohammed by brothers Kailash C Mahindra and Jagdish Chandra Mahindra along with Malik Ghulam Mohammed. Anand Mahindra, the present Chairman of Mahindra Group is the grand-son of Jagdish Chandra Mahindra. After India gained independence and Pakistan was formed, Mohammed emigrated to Pakistan where he became that country's first finance minister. The company changed its name to M&M46. Edelweiss - Edelweiss was named after the Alpine flower that grows in harsh terrain. Mr. Rashesh Shah quit his job with ICICI in May 1995. He had savings of Rs 30 lakh and by mortgaging his house he put in another 20 lakh. The rest came from Mr. Venkat and other investors. Mr. Rashesh Shah promised his parents that the company would never lose money. He says "We haven’t lost money in any of the last 22 years".47. Sensex quadrupled from 1000 to 4000 in just 2 years! Sensex was published in the year 1986. It closed at 1001 points in the year 1990 and in the year 1992 it crossed 4000 points at 4019 points. The year 1992 saw a downturn on account of the Harshad Mehta Scam.48. India's oldest Share Mania witnessed in 1861-64 and its effects. Taken from the BSE book - The temple of wealth creation, A 143-year journey.49. So we all know that stock exchanges earlier had open outcry system meaning they shouted or used gestures for buying/selling. This is how it was done –50. TTK, CIPLA, CEAT, RPG are some famous companies in the stock market. But did you know they all have a full form?CIPLA – The Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Laboratories.JK tyres – Juggilal KamlapatjiRanbaxy – Randhirsinh GurubaxInfosys – Information System.KEI industries – Krishna Electrics Industries.MASTEK – Management and Software Technologies.MOIL – Manganese Ore India Limited.NLC - Neyveli Lignite Corporation LimitedNIIT - National Institute of Information technologyKRBL - Khushi Ram Behari LalPAYTm - Pay thru MobileSYSKA - Shree Yogi Sant Kripa Anant ( spiritual guru of the founding family)PCJ - Padam Chand GuptaPVR - Priya Village RoadshowABP - Anandabazar PatrikaRPG - Rama Prasad GoenkaTVS – Thirukku Vengaram SundramMDH - Mahashian Di HattiOYO - On your own roomsTTK - T T KrishnamachariDCB Bank - Development Credit BankNESCO - New Standard Engineering CompanyCESC - Calcutta Electric Supply CommissionACC - Associated Cement CompanyCEAT - Cavi Elettrici e Affini TorinoABB - Asea Brown BoveriINDIGO – India on the GOMRF - Madras Rubber FactoryWIPRO - Western India Products LimitedDabur - Daktar BurmanDena Bank - Devkaran NanjeeDS Group (Famous pulse candy maker) - Dharampal Satyapal GroupExide - Excellent OxideGMR - Grandhi Mallikarjuna RaoHIL - Hyderabad Industries LimitedHSIL - Hindustan Sanitaryware & Industries LimitedICICI - Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of IndiaAMUL - Anand Milk Union LimitedEIH - East India HotelsCRISIL -Credit Rating Information Services of India LimitedICRA - Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India LimitedSENSEX – Sensitivity IndexSRF - Shriram fabricsDCM Shriram - Delhi Cloth Mills.DLF - Delhi Leasing and Finance.NDTV - New Delhi TelevisionBPL - British Physical LaboratoryHope you found this interesting,Aditya Kondawar