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Where can I find a free Family Tree website?

I want to create my family tree and have a place to upload photos and information. All the places I have saw you have to pay. I know ancestory.com has them to but its a monthly fee. Does anyone know a free one where I can put this information down?

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Google "family tree" and pick the best site or just browse until you find the best then type in your name or whatever it asks... Good luck! Another family website that is great is www.myfamily.com... I don't know if it is what you are looking for though
Audacious, the only way your family will be online is if someone, perhaps a distant cousin, has researched it and put it online. Also, if you find any of your family in any of the genealogy websites whether free or one you have to pay to subscribe, the information should be verified with documents/records. The trees are submitted by the subscribers, folks like you and me. There are errors. You frequently will see different information on the same people from different subscribers. Then you will see the absolute same info on the same people from different subscribers, BUT that doesn't mean for one moment the information is accurate. A lot of people copy without verifying. If you disagree with information someone has posted on any of your family members, the owners of the websites will tell you that is between you and the other subscribers. You can make up an entirely fictitious family tree and it will be accepted. There is no way those who run those websites can verify all the information. Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can use for free. It is probably the best for the total amount of original source records. You still have to distinguish between their records and their subscriber submitted family trees. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have lots of military enlistment and draft records. They have a large amount of immigration and land records. They have indexes to vital records of many U.S. states. Not all records are online but the ones you find will save you time and money traveling all over to get them. They have transcribed the records but you can view the original images. There are errors in their transcriptions, particularly censuses, but when you view the original, you will pity the transcribers. When you set up a tree in their public member tree or private member tree, they will give you clues to records that might match some of your family members and if it is the same person it is easy to attach those records to you tree. You need to look at the info carefully to determine if it is the same person. Now, if they give you a clue from another family tree just understand that is another subscriber's submission. Here is a link with links to many other websites, some free and some not. http://www.progenealogists.com/top50genealogy2008.htm
Geni.com allows you to put up your information in a private tree. You can send an email to your relatives to have them add informtion -- and only invited family members can see the site, for privacy. Yes, you can get more if you pay, but the basics are free.
http://www.myheritage.com/?gclid=CNTgj9HdzJsCFdZM5QodtHtdKw http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
Google should give you quite a few, and yes, some you pay, some you don't.
Personally, I would not create my family tree online. I think it is better to put it in a family history program on my computer so that I have complete control over it. When I want to upload it to a family tree site, I export it in a Gedcom file, first stripping out all living people and choosing what data I want to include. Personal Ancestral File (PAF) is free from familysearch, and RootsMagic is available in a usable trial version. Download both and see which you prefer:- http://www.familysearch.org http://www.rootsmagic.com/ I have uploaded my family tree to the free World Connect project at:- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Cyndi's List, the directory of worldwide genealogy sites, has a page with links to other lineage-linked databases where you can upload your tree:- http://www.cyndislist.com/lin-linked.htm .
http://www.familytreelegends.com/downloads http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/metasearch