Where is a free website to find your family tree?

Question

Where is a free website to find your family tree

Answer 1

If you are going to start doing research on your family, first things first.

1.  ask any and all living family for information.  Full names, dates of birth/death, places of birth/death.  You may even want to talk to family friends.

2.  once you have that information it will be a lot easier for you to start using websites.

try www.rootsweb.com...free to sign up so you can post of message boards

www.familysearch.org...great site run by LDS

3.  go to your local and surrounding libraries, you will find information there as well.

Answer 2

There are many websites, free and paid.

However, you might or might not find your family tree.  Perhaps you will find some of your family lines.  Information in family trees on any website, free or paid, must be viewed as CLUES not as absolute fact. The info is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented.  Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different subscribers that is no guarantee it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.

Cyndi;sList.Com gives a mutltude of websites, free and paid.  

I believe the best due to its records is Ancestry.Com.  Your public library might have a subscription to it 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 also.

They have immigration records, military records, indexes of various vital records from many states.

A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church is free to use. 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 either.

However, the first thing you should do is get as much information from living people as possible, particularly your senior members.  Tape them if they will let you.  They probably will be confused on some things but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very significant.

Find out if any family has any old Family Bibles.  Ask to see and make copies of birth, marriage and death certificates. Also depending on the faith, baptismal, first communion, confirmation and marriage certificates can be very helfpul.

Answer 3

Check out "Cyndi's List" (http://www.cyndislist.com/) it's a great genealogy resource site.

I also put a bunch of useful links under "Sources" below.

Good luck. Have fun.

Answer 4

No one who uses the name "Megadeth..." is going to have the patience to research a family tree. You can't just enter your real name and find your ancestors. I'd suggest you pick another hobby.