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tracing my family tree?

i would like to trace my family tree , are there any FREE sites,

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Most sites will offer a free trail. My local library offers an ancestry account free for public use. www.ancestry.co.uk is the best so if you have a free public account near you it would be great!
Here is a good sight.
http://www.GenesReunited.co.uk is a FREE site.
These are the best free sites; http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ http://www.familysearch.org/ The library archives are only good if you know exactly what you are looking for, even then it's a long slog that way. Don't expect instant results and then you wont be disappointed. Genesreunited is not a free site and the only info there is what people put up hoping someone will recognise names.
You cannot do a tree totally for free, there are some web sites that will help you for free, Try the web sites below, they may help
The Mormons have a good site. Just search on Mormon genealogy
Don't rely totally on websites. Also don't take as fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted, not just by experts. You will often see different information on the same person by different submitters. Then you will see repeatedly the same information by many different people without documentation. Just because 10 people have the same information in their family tree doesn't mean the information is correct. People are copying without verifying. Use the information as clues as to where to get the documentation. Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can take advantage of. Ancestry.Com has lot of records and seems to be getting more all the time. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 is not available to the public yet. They have U.K. censuses also. Cyndi'sList has a multitude of websites you can look into. If you haven't done so, call your nearest Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church and find out if they have a Family History Center. They have tons of 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 for a nominal fee. Also if you haven't, you should get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. It might turn out they are confused on some things, but what might seem to be insignificant story tellings might be very important. Good Luck!
Yes, there are; here are a few. Free sites: there are several to choose from. Start with: http://www.searchforancestors.com/... http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739... http://www.usgenweb.com/ http://www.census.gov/ http://www.rootsweb.com/ http://www.ukgenweb.com/ http://www.archives.gov/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... http://www.cyndislist.com/ Assuming they emigrated from Europe, start with Ellis Island and the Battery Conservancy sites: http://www.ellisisland.org http://www.castlegarden.org Your public library probably has ancestry.com or heritagequest.com available, free of chartge. Ancestry.com allows trial subscriptions. The library also has books and periodicals for use. And, of course, the caveats: websites are not all that accurate. E.g., one claimed one of my ancestors was born in New York in 1585! Some claim the parent was born AFTER the child! But, official records are not that accurate: My grandmother's name is not correct in most listings, not even on her tombstone! So, check, double-check, then check again...or just go with the flow. good luck!
There are two sites that you can build your tree on. One is www.tribalpages.com and the other is www.geni.com www.rootsweb.com is a free message board (literally thousands of members) that will allow you to be a member of many different boards that cover a large variety of topics. www.genealogy.com offers a message board for each individual family surname (most are listed but some aren't) or city/county/state/country boards. Yahoo groups have a ton of message boards on many different surnames, tribes, countries, regions, etc.
It is unlikely you will be able to trace your family history adequately without paying out some money (for example for birth certificates). The site of the mormons (family search.org) is only useful if you have traced your family back already to before the mid 19th century. Free Birth, marriage and death indexes and census sites are not completed yet so may not have your ancestors on them. At the moment you may be better off going to a library and looking through the microfilm records. Though you can try: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl http://www.freecen.org.uk/ Don't forget the most important thing of asking your elderly relatives all they can remember before they die.
there are several free sites as well as free trials with the 'pay for' sites. BUT these are transcriptions and prone to error, so you need to check copies of the original documents to be certain. Check too whether your area of interest has any free sites. For example if your family hail from the Waddesdon area of Buckinghamshire this site offers almost full genealogies.