What is the best way to trace family history that doesn’t involve signing up to a website like ancestry.com? Our surname is Fortuin. My family kept saying it was a French surname and when I went to Europe I found lots of Fortuins from Poland who died at Dachau. Some more digging then said it was actually a Dutch surname. I can’t really find any origin stories just information about where other Fortuins reside (USA and South Africa predominantly)
This makes a lot of sense. Do you know of any possible ways to search for more answers?