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Does anyone know of a good FREE website to trace your family tree ??

I would like to start tracing my family tree, just as a pastime, nothing intense. I was wondering if anybody out there knows of a good free site that can help do this ? Also, has anyone had a go at this and how did it turn out ??? Thank you to all who answer..

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1. genes reunited google it good luck
2. There are links to 250,000 or so in the resolved Questions. I'm away from my PC with the stock answer or I'd copy it in here. Look at the top 10 answerers and their answers. Rust Skipper, HSK"s mom, Genevieve and I post replies to this kind of question every couple of days. All of the others are more polite than I am, you'll notice. Rust Skipper is better looking.
3. try myheritage.com good luck
4. Try www.GenesReunited.com It's absolutely free but you have to sign up and all that. I haven't tried this as I don't really have the time but it sounds kinda cool so good luck!
5. http://www.rootsweb.com/ http://www.familysearch.org/ Now these sites are free but be really cautious if you find your family make sure you contact the person who submited the information remember you must have documentation its the only record you have to prove what your saying is true,good luck in your search.
6. You want Good, and you want Free, and you want One Stop Shopping of your own personal family tree. I know just the right place! But it's not a website. It's the kitchen table where you meet with your elders to learn all you can of their parents, grandparents, and as far back as anyone recalls full names, dates and places of births, marriages and deaths. There you will lean also if anyone in your family has already done the work, become your family's historian - because that's the only way you will find your family's history already reasearched for you. The alternative is to use the data gained at the kitchen table to begin researching back generation by generation - you become your family's historian.
7. Mitchell is correct about documentation. The information in family trees on any web site should be viewed as clues not as fact. Even if you see the same information over and over submitted by different people, a lot of copying is going on. Granny mentioned sitting around the table and getting information. Yes, you should start by getting as much information from your family as possible. Particularly talk to your senior family members. Even when their minds are getting a little feeble, they can have a wealth of information. Tape them if they will let you. People who do this say when they go back and listen to the tape several years after they have done research, they hear things they didn't hear the first time around. Sometimes when you think they are just rambling, something not important turns out to be very important. If you are just writing down what they say you might not write down those little items. An attorney will tell you the same thing about taping a deposition from someone. When they go back and listen new things come to their ears. Rootsweb.Com, FamilySearch.org are free sites.