Any websites where you can look up your family tree for free?

Question

Any websites where you can look up your family tree for free?

Answer 1

There are many websites.  Some with family trees, some with records, some have message board and mailing lists.  Ancestry.Com, which isn't free, has it all. Your public library might have a subscription to it that you can use. They have all the U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have U.K. censuses through 1901.   They have military and immigration records and they have indexes to vital records of many U.S. states.

Warning: Don't take as absolute fact everything you see in the family trees on their website or ANY website, free or not free.  The trees are subscriber submitted by folks like you and me and mostly not documented or poorly documented.  You might see different info on the same people from different subscribers. Then you will see the absolute same info on the same people from different subscribers, but that is no guarantee at all it is correct.  A lot of people copy without verifying.  The information can be useful as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.  The basis for good genealogy are good records and documents.

Cyndi'sList.Com is a website with links to a multitude of other websites in doing genealogy.

Don't expect to find it all online.  You will have a very hard time finding info on living people on genealogy websites as that is considered an invasion of privacy and can lead to identity theft.  

A good free source is a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons.  In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection.  Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee.  Just call them or visit their free website at FamilySearch.org

to find out their hours for the general public.

I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell.  I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

http://www.rootsweb.com/ is the best site for genealogy

Answer 3

There are several sites that researchers upload their family trees to. Just remember they are as accurate as the effort the researcher put in to get the information. Most of the time they just copy from others, so if you find yours, verify as much information you can.

www.gencircles.com

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

www.familytreemaker.com

www.familysearch.org

www.ancestry.com (you may be able to do some things without a subscription, else wait for a 14 day trial)

www.google.com (put in your last name, the county your family was from using quotes ("fayette county"), and the state. You might find people researching or related to your last name and then make contact with them.

Good Luck! (and have fun with this)