Where can i trace my ancestors for free?

Question

im doin a family for english class and i need help!?

Answer 1

ancestry.com has a 14 day free trial.

rootsweb.com is free.

How many generations do you have so far?

If you list your great-grandparents names and some of their vital statistics (birth, birthplace, death, place of death), maybe some of us, who have a genealogy website membership can help you.

P.S.

Usually, Ted gives good advice, but that part about your teacher was not one of his finest moments.

Tracing 3 or 4 generations isn't too difficult and I'm sure your teacher will be satisfied with whatever you can find.

As a Boy Scout, Girl Scout and school volunteer, I have had the pleasure of teaching basic genealogy to various age groups of students and their parents for over 25 years.

Finding your ancestors today, is so much easier with access to the Internet.

Answer 2

Usually the mormon church is a good place to do research for free.

Answer 3

Begin by asking your parents, grandparents, and older relatives for names, dates, places of birth, and residences of your ancestors.  For a school project that may be all you need.  If not, and you need to go back farther in your tree, Google familysearch.org and search there.  You can also get a free membership to Heritagequest at your public library.  You will be able to access it from your home computer or the library, where they can show you how it works, and look up census records for your ancestors.  However, they post census records up to 1920 and some in 1930, so you probably won't have to go back that far.  Genweb on the Internet is also free.  Search on the web for Genweb and include the county and state where your ancestors lived.  There is usually a search engine on the Genweb site, where you can put in a last name and see if there is any information on the person you are looking for.  I have traced my ancestors back to the 1600s in America in some cases, and have fun doing it, but you probably will not have to go beyond your grandparents or great grandparents for a school assignment.  Good luck and have fun.

Answer 4

If you mean:

"I'm doing a family for English class and I need help!"

then there is little hope for you. Here is my standard answer, though.

Your teacher is a fool. I wish you would print this off for him/her. Tracing your family tree is like fishing. It takes skill and practice. Asking students who have never done it before to do it is like asking someone who had never fished before to head out into the mountains with a fly rod and come back with enough rainbow trout to feed 100 people.

If you are in the USA and most of your ancestors were here, an experienced genealogist could probably trace most of your ancestors back to 1850 or their arrival, whichever came first, in 100 - 300 hours. (Only back to 1870 if you are black.) That is two and a half weeks of full-time work at a minimum, for an experienced person. Asking students to do it (unless that is your only assignment for the rest of the school year, and the school will pay for your census image subscription) is ridiculous.

Answer 5

i think its www.ancestry.com  if not,  go to www.google.com and type in ancestry.

Answer 6

Talk with your grandparents and parents.  Get as much imformation as possible.  Write everything down.  Go on-line to rootsweb.com.  It free and a good place to start.  The best research tools are the Mormon website and Ancestory.com.  There is a fee for Ancestory.com

I began my search about a year ago without any help or knowledge of genealogy.  I have gone back nine generations with more than 900 people in my tree. I have met cousins and found a couple of famous people lin my lineage.  It's been rewarding.  

How much effort you put into will determine your results.  It's a mission that once you start will not be able to stop.

Good Luck