Hey guys i need help on a geneaology/family tree project BUT FREE!!?

Question

See i want to go real in depth but with no cost and hasels with easy navagation and most importantly FREE. Show me the options. excluding-cindslist,familytree.com,anset...

Answer 1

I want to get a job as taste tester at the Royal Danish School for Concubines and Pastry Cooks. Somehow I don't think I'm going to get it.

You are not going to get what you want, either. Genealogy is research. It is about as hard as a term paper for high school history class. Anyone of normal intelligence (or above) can do it, but it takes time and effort. Most good genealogists are warm, wise, witty, devilishly handsome and good spellers. Your potential does not look promising.

If this project is for a class, just lie. Ask your grandparents who their parents were, find someone with that last name born in a reasonable time frame on the LDS site or RWWC

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

and claim them. Women tend to have children when they are 20 - 40. Men tend to marry women 0 - 4 years younger than they are. People in the USA tend to move west but not north or south, so Georgians end up in Texas and Vermonters end up in Michigan. With those guidelines and some cunning, you should be able to fake something in an hour.

Note there are lots of exceptions to the above, and they make fascinating stories, but you want yours to be as bland as possible, so as not to arouse suspicion. Bank robbers and international spies don't wear blue and yellow capes for the same reason. If you ever meet a flaming red-head who comes home from a “business trip” with his hair dyed mousy brown, you may want to get him snockered and ask him about his line of work.

Asking a high school student to do a 5-generation genealogy project is like asking someone who has never fished before to go down to the river and catch enough salmon to feed a dinner party of 48. Teachers who assign such should expect fabrication.

Answer 2

www.rootsweb.com is free.  Accuracy is not guaranteed.  It never is on any genealogy website.  How in depth you can get is dependant on whether or not some distant cousin you never knew has already done some research AND posted it online.  That is the best you can hope for that is FREE and EASY.

However, like anything else, you get out of it what you put into it.  If you are not willing to work for the information by doing real research, and pay for anything, then you are not going to get anything out of it but just copying someone elses bad research.  But, you get what you pay for.

Answer 3

Sounds like what you really want is for someone else to to the work for you!  The only way that happens is if someone has already researched your family.   If not, even with free sites there's work to do.

Try the sites below.  They're reputable & free.

As indicated free & in-depth is not realistic.  Unless you do some research yourself you may just be perpetuating someone elses fairy tale.  It may come as a shock but not everything published on the internet is true.

Answer 4

I think you are being somewhat unrealistic if you think there is a magic web site like that.

What information do you specifically need? Maybe someone can help you by looking it up?

Remember not to put details of living people on here though.

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Okay maybe someone can help you find what category you need on cyndislist.

What country?

What state /county/ city?

What year?

What information do you already have?

Answer 5

My sister-in-law does our family tree. Sometimes it takes a starting out place perhaps another family member has done some of the work already.  Say you are researching your father's side and their relatives but only the ones that share your last name included our the sisters who were married of course they are part of the family and who they married of course the names of each of their kids, their birthdates etc.. The farther back you go info gets scarcer. Historical societies sometimes have old public records , sometimes on micro fiche   these records are sometimes destroyed so you have to find alternative ways of retrieving info.. Birth certificates, property tax ,census and death cerificates and of course cemetaries. You may have to ask distant relatives about their family and how it intersects yours.  You may have knowledge that will help her search..  Geneology is very time consuming task and even for a do it yourselfers fees are involved for research and the copying of documents..   If you ever see an ad saying your geneology has been traced... It may be the wrong family..  Once you've started and enjoy the detective work involved  you may dig further perhaps  tracing both sides of your family..  Those online geneological outfits charge you for everything  and more times than not it is not perfectly accurate.  Thanks to my sister-in- law and her efforts which have taken over 10 years.. My family name can be traced to the 15 hundreds and with recent clues may be traced further.

Answer 6

It really isn't that hard, although you have to put some time into the project.  You can download free programs such as Heritage Quest.  You type info into it and it organizes your information for you.

Start with your parents:  Full name, DOB, & Place, Marriages to Whom & Places.  Then ask your father and your mother for their parents' info, and their parents' info.  They may remember some info on their grandparents, too.  Also get any death dates and places.  

This will give you info on you, your parents, your grandparents and your great grandparents.... that's already 4 generations.

Talk to aunts and uncles and parents and see if they have any knowledge of your great grandparents, Bible records, etc.  You may even make copies of all of the documents, including Bible records.  Documentation is important if you are going to share it with someone else.  People need to know where the info came from.

Your library may have a subscription to Heritage Quest or Ancestry.  These cost $ if you are doing it at home.  If this isn't possible, go to google and type in whatever it is you are wanting, such as 1890 Census Arkansas.  It may be available free on some site.  Gather census records before 1931, land records, marriage records, divorce records, birth records, etc etc etc.

Many people only to a direct lineage, but most serious genealogists want the broader tree with siblings, cousins, aunts & uncles, greats and so on and so on.  They gather any info on any relative or prospective relative, because later on it may be info you really need.

Answer 7

The Mormon's have a website.  You'd have to look it up.

Answer 8

In depth and free are not compatible.

Cyndislist is THE best collection of resources on how to accurately trace your family.  It is completely senseless to exclude sites, if you don't have experience to evaluate what is good or not.

Sorry.  You can have good or you can have free. They will NOT be the same. End of story.

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start with the section called beginners!!

http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

another guide on how to start.

Hey, we are thrilled to help you here, also.. just trying to wake up the reality thing. Genealogy takes time (and some money) if you want it good.