answers1: You should look at the resolved questions. Either browse
them or use the advanced search at least three times, for the words
<br>
<br>
Free family tree <br>
free family history <br>
free ancestry <br>
<br>
People ask the same basic question, "How can I find my family tree,
for free?" 3 - 14 times a day here. 9 of us top 10 have stock answers.
(One of the 10 is retired.) After 2 - 4 of us paste our stock answer,
the rest don't bother. All 9 stock answers are well worth reading. All
9 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. <br>
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Here is my stock answer: <br>
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There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among them (without http://) <br>
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www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. <br>
www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records. <br>
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entries <br>
usgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USA <br>
ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Social Security Death Index, 83 million names <br>
vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index,
9,366,786 records <br>
www.findagrave.com - 53 million records <br>
genforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state,
and thousands of surnames. <br>
boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and
surnames too. <br>
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over
30 million messages <br>
<br>
I have a page with real links to all of those, but you'll have to wade
through some advice and warnings first. <br>
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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. <br>
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If you are in the USA, <br>
AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, <br>
AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, <br>
AND you are white <br>
Then 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.
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<br>
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 your living relatives before it is too late. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.
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So much for the warnings. Here is the main link. <br>
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<a href="http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html</a>
<br>
<br>
That 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". <br>
<br>
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.
answers2: Ancestry.com. Familysearch.org.
answers3: There is no single answer; the best site for one person
doesn't even work for another. Which is why you need to try various
sites. <br>
<br>
Go to www.cyndislist.com, run through the list a bit and see what
appeals to you re matching your particular ancestry. <br>
<br>
And click above where it says "Search Y! Answers".
answers4: The ones that have YOUR ANCESTOR. <br>
There are thousands of sites, most are free. <br>
Focus your search analysis. Instead of looking for family trees...LOOK
FOR FACTS about your ancestor. <br>
Maybe you need a death cert from Illinois. A tombstone from Missouri.
Birth certificates from West Virginia. A Civil War document. <br>
Instead of the website doing the thinking for you...think what it is
that you need, and ask here or google (and yes, google itself is a
"genealogy" site, if you know how to phrase your search term). <br>
There is no one best site. All genealogy is not online (but you can
use it to find offline sources of info, too). <br>
Keep your mind open to broader possibilities, and be ready to have
many bookmarks.
answers5: Depends on what you are looking for, who and in what
country..................there are many good websites BUT websites are
only a tool to use not the whole toolbox and you need to check
anything and everything back to records that you find on ANY website
as most are 'collected' data and transcriptions and most have NO
citing whatsoever so can only be used as a clue and a website or
collection number is NOT a cited record <br>
<br>
If you are starting your family history then <a
href="http://familytimeline.webs.com/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://familytimeline.webs.com/</a> and the
links page will give you some of the better websites.....but the
library, the local records centre and family history centre are more
useful and contain REAL records which are
cited......................................
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