Vida Miss: You should look at the resolved questions. Either browse them or use the advanced search at least three times, for the wordsFree family treefree family historyfree ancestryPeople ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree, for free?" 4 - 14 times a day here. All of us top 10 have stock answers. After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer, the rest don't bother. All the stock answers are well worth reading. All of us are warm, wise, witty, well-read and, above all, devilishly handsome. We have quite a bit of overlap on our favorite links, but we emphasize different aspects of the hunt in our advice.Here is my stock answer:There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites, but1) They don't pay Google to come up in first place. You have to pay attention to those words, "Ads" in VERY small type, and ignore those results.2) Some of the free ones have ads, which ask you for a name, then take you to a pay site. You have to pay attention to the form.In either c! ase, if you don't pay attention, you'll end up on one of those sites where the search is free, but seeing the results costs you money. They are dishonest, in my opinion, but they didn't ask my opinion.3) With very rare exception, all the free sites do is give you data to let you research your tree. They won't show you your tree. The exception is when someone, like your great-aunt, has done the work and uploaded it.Among those free sites (without http://)www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized.www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records.wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entriesusgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USAvitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index, 9,366,786 recordswww.findagrave.com - tens of millions of recordsgenforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state, and thousands of surnames.boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; countie! s and surnames too.archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Ma! iling List Archive - Over 30 million messagesI have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade through some advice and warnings first.If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one of their international sub-sites, we can't tell if you are in the USA, UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. If you are in the USA, AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, AND you are whiteThen you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with 100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are black, sadly. Many people stop reading here and pick another hobby.No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling herbs. Talk to y! our living relatives before it is too late.You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking up obituaries and so forth.Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify. So much for the warnings. Here is the main link.http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.htmlThat page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the "new look".You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry! ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet! Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The query forms on the sites are tricky.If you've read this far, And you are still interestedAnd your ancestors were in the USA by 1930And you know the names of at least two people (husband and wife, parent and child) who were living in the same house in 1930I'll look for them in the 1930 census to give you a start. Write to me via my profile....Show more
Brian Marquina: Familysearch.org. is an excellent and is connected to the largest Genealogical library in the world.
Vickie Clampett: There are many free places to find genealogy info. No one site has all of the information. Genealogists use many different sources when researching. Some places to start:Your local library. Most have Ancestry.com access for members. Familysearch.org or your local LDS Family History Center. US Archives www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/Cyndislist.comGood luck!...Show more
Idell Mulliniks: there are various u! nfastened components at maximum libraries. At my close by library I signed up for get entry to to different unfastened family contributors tree components that i'm able to get to from my homestead throughout the library website - besides the shown fact that, ancestry must be completed on the library. All unfastened different than printing. no longer unfastened yet properly actually worth the $25 or much less to purchase final years family contributors tree database, it comes with a three month or longer subscription to Ancestry, it particularly is very plenty. The family contributors tree database is a sturdy device for conserving and printing out information. on your loved ones....Show more
Kristina Brockwell: http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhom... yes lots, if you are starting then the records you have at home are free and REAL and the links page will help further
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