If you are tracing family to non-English countries, you may find yourself lost in translation. The following websites offer free translation in many of the major languages.
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SDL International Free Professional Translation (http://www.freetranslation.com/)
Along with the traditional Spanish, French, German and Italian, this service also translates Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Norwegian, simplified and traditional Chinese and Japanese. You can translate up to 750 words at a time.
Babel Fish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
The granddaddy of online translators does all of the above languages as well as Greek and Korean. You can translate up to 150 words at a time. The site also allows you to translate webpages by typing the URL into the text box.
