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Family tree for free?

i want to trace my family tree, im english and i want a easy one to use with archives, but im not willing to pay please help!!

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go to a Library that has the areas census'
you can download a good one from here it is free but you must register with them this cost nothing and they don't spam you i use myself http://www.software-dungeon.co.uk/softwa…
How easy it is to trace your family tree is going to depend on who your family happened to be, where they were born/died, and some luck about which records are still available. The National Archives has some advice about getting started at http://tinyurl.com/lb5b6h.
You could try entering the surname/surnames in which you are interested and see if a distant cousin has done the Tree already and put it on a web site. I have a cousin who has done this with details back to the 1500's You could contact the Family History Society for the areas from which your ancestors originated - check out the names which Members have spent years researching and ask help from any researching your names. For example, I belong to the Bristol & Avon Family History Society. If you enter this into Google and click on the heading which says "Members' Interests", it will give you contact details of anyone researching your names. If you were looking for the same families as me, I'd gladly send you copies of my Trees, done 30-odd years ago (without the aid of the Internet) At our local library, I can access the Ancestry site, free of charge. Happy hunting!
If you can't or won't pay then there is only so far you will get for free and the result is not likely to be that reliable. The only way to compile an accurate tree is to collect the necessary documentation - birth, marriage and death records, and whichever way you look at it, these are not free. There are certain things you can do, and the first stage is the easiest of all - sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil and start with what you know (if you'd rather enter it into a family tree software program, then the Mormons Personal Ancestry File (PAF) program at familysearch.org is as good as any, and crucially for the beginner it is free to download and use). Once you've entered yourself and your parents on the tree and any aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters etc, you just keep going as far as you can - if granny is still alive then you ask her - get names, dates and places and ask as many family members as you can about "living memory" during the 1900s to see where people agree, and more crucially, where they disagree, as obviously, when you're dealing with the human memory, nothing should be taken as infallible. This is obviously the time when you need to get hold of the actual official records and confirm what you have been told and use that info to get back one generation further. If granny kept an old tin of photos and documents in the attic then all well and good, it might be ages before you actually need to pay for a document off your own bat, but it's more than likely that you will come to a grinding halt sometime before the turn of the 20th century. There's always the option of going to your local library and using their access to sites like Ancestry for free to look up details on the census, and in the UK at least, freebmd.org will be invaluable to help locate your ancestors names in the national BMD indexes, but you will have to pay for the certificates themselves. The last recourse of the desperate is probably to sign up to "Genes Reunited" and hope a second cousin or great aunt has already been there and done it and put your family tree online, but even then you'll need to pay a subscription if you want to contact any potential "matches", and relying on the information of others is not a good way to do a tree anyway - you have no idea if they were doing a good job in the first place and have all their facts right. Be very careful about any information you find on the internet unless you have actually had sight of the record in question and the tree is well documented. Most online trees aren't.
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With archives? Why bother? I have so many ancestors from the British Isles; I know that if a couple had a baby and could not afford to pay the tax, they did not register the birth. Later, if they wanted to register the birth, they had to pay the tax plus a fine. Result: mostly only the landed gentry and nobility registered all births. The same thing applies to marriages and deaths; that is why the majority of people cannot trace their ancestry for more than a few generations! Except for when they have landed gentry or nobility in their ancestry. Here are some Brit sites: www.freebmd.org.uk www.genesreunited.co.uk http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/tree220.htmfor William the Conqueror http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/Doomsday Book, commissioned in 1086 by William the (Bastard) Conqueror http://www.obrienstore.com/genealogy/the... http://www.1911census.co.uk/ There are sites that pertain to the Irish, the Scottish, the Welsh; even the Isle of Mann, etc. Don't forget about the books written by such genealogists as Burkes. Both father and son wrote several books, which are quite detailed. And, of course, if you are true English, not a recent immigrant, you will find ancestors not only from all over the British Isles, France (from William the Conqueror and others), but from the Danes, the Vikings, Spaniards, Rome, etc. Here are some more hints: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvoP3xXL3yb0CFdotopnOKLty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090805121038AAweLmf&show=7#profile-info-oC7m7oj4aa
Talk to all your relatives, ask to see old photographs, records of birth, baptism, death and marriage, family Bibles, funeral service sheets, etc, and make copies. Find out where all your deceased relatives are buried, visit the graves, transcribe the information on the gravestones and take photographs. If you don't know where people are buried or are unable to visit the graves, you may find them on www.findagrave.com Too many of us family historians regret not questioning the oldies closely before they popped their clogs, so get all the names, dates and places you can and then check these against the official records. Then work back one generation at a time, using birth/baptism, death/burial and marriage records, and the census. The national indexes of birth, marriage and death up to about 1930 can be searched at freebmd. Civil registration was introduced in England and Wales on 1st July 1837, although registration of births was not compulsory until 1875:- http://freebmd.org.uk Some local registration offices are putting their indexes online:- http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ The census returns for England and Wales from 1841 to 1911 are held at the National Archives at Kew and you can access the census images and transcriptions via the links on their website:- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/default.htm?WT.hp=Census Only the 1881 census is available free online. All the others are on paid sites although you can consult the indexes for free. Volunteers are busy transcribing the other censuses to make them freely available and this site has completed some counties for some years:- http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.pl Some Parish Registers are online and the main free online resource for these is the International Genealogical Index (IGI) at the LDS site:- http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/search/igi/search_igi.asp You can search the 1881 census on this site too, and also download the family history program Personal Ancestral File (PAF), all free. If the LDS don't have the Parish Registers you need, try these two free sites which are in process of putting parish registers online:- http://onlineparishclerks.org.uk/ http://www.freereg.org.uk You might like to search the free World Connect project to see if anyone has already done research on your ancestors (view these trees with caution as much of the 'research' is suspect - verify anything you find online by consulting the original records before incorporating the data into your family tree):- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ If you want more, these are directories of genealogical resources with links to websites, some of which will be free:- http://www.genuki.org.uk/ http://www.cyndislist.com/ www.worldgenweb.com .
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