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Anywhere i can trace my family tree for free!?

Anywhere i can trace my ancestors like birthplaces and families etc for free ?

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1. www.rootsweb.com
2. You should start by asking all your living relatives about family history. Then, armed with that information, you can go to your public library and check to see if it has a genealogy department. Most do nowadays; also, don't forget to check at community colleges, universities, etc. Our public library has both www.ancestry.com and www.heritagequest.com free for anyone to use (no library card required). Another place to check out is any of the Mormon's Family History Centers. They allow people to search for their family history (and, NO, they don't try to convert you). A third option is one of the following websites: http://www.searchforancestors.com/... http://www.censusrecords.net/?o_xid=2739... www dot usgenweb dot com/ www dot census dot gov/ http://www.rootsweb.com/ www dot ukgenweb dot com/ www dot archives dot gov/ http://www.familysearch.org/ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/... http://www.cyndislist.com/ www dot geni dot com/ Cyndi's has the most links to genealogy websites, whether ship's passenger lists, ancestors from Africa, ancestors from the Philippines, where ever and whatever. Of course, you may be successful by googling: "john doe, born 1620, plimouth, massachusetts" as an example. Good luck and have fun! Check out this article on five great free genealogy websites: www dot associatedcontent dot com/article... Then there is the DNA test; if you decide you want to REALLY know where your ancestors came from opt for the DNA test. Besides all the mistakes that officials commonly make, from 10% to 20% of birth certificates list the father wrong; that is, mama was doing the hanky-panky and someone else was the REAL father. That won't show up on the internet or in books; it WILL show up in DNA. I used www.familytreedna.com which works with the National Geographics Genotype Program.
3. Google Mormons Genealogy. Their lists are free. Sorry I cannot remember the name of their site.
4. In addition to the perfectly good advice that the earlier answerers have given, please consider the following information. The people and organisations who are properly qualified to accurately compile your family history, will not be willing to do it without charging you a substantial fee. Compiling a family history is a time consuming and tiring task that involves having to pay search fees at various registry offices and archives. Sometimes the task involves having to visit other countries to search archives and this is an expensive thing to do. It is best to start by doing as much of the research, yourself. Start by obtaining a copy of your own birth certificate. It will tell you the names of your parents, their age at the time of your birth, the place of their marriage, your name, you date of birth and your place of birth but some information might be missing. If your parents were not married, your father's details will not always appear but if you know your father, you can ask him for his details. He might even have a copy of his birth certificate. In some cases, where there is no birth certificate, the details can be found on a death certificate or marriage certificate.
5. Ideally, you want to get back about 100 years from family knowledge so that you can look for your ancestors in the 1911 census (the most recent one available). Otherwise you will have to work backwards from birth, marriage and death certificates. So 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 the 1930s can be searched at http://freebmd.org.uk Civil registration was introduced in England and Wales on 1st July 1837, although registration of births was not compulsory until 1875 and it is estimated that up to 50% of births may not have been registered in the early years. Search more recent indexes on microfiche at your County Record Office, central library, or LDS Family History Centre, or at ancestry.co.uk which you may be able to use for free at the library. Some local registration offices are putting their indexes online at http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ When you have found the right entry in the index, the birth, marriage or death certificate costs £9.25 when ordered online from the General Register Office and providing them with the full reference from the index:- http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/Birthmarriageanddeathcertificates/DG_175628 The census returns for England and Wales from 1841 to 1911 are held at the National Archives at Kew, and the census images and transcriptions can be accessed 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 it is free to search the indexes. Volunteers are 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 On the free LDS site you can search the 1881 census, and the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which is a large collection of extracts from parish registers. Many more records can be searched on microfilm or fiche at your local LDS Family History Centre - find out where the nearest one is from their website. You can also download the family history program Personal Ancestral File (PAF) for free. http://www.familysearch.org Before 1837, the only records of the main life events of our ancestors will be found in the parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial. Churches still keep these registers but usually deposit the old ones for safekeeping with the County Record Office where they can be searched on microfilm/fiche. These two free sites are in process of putting parish registers online:- http://onlineparishclerks.org.uk/ and www.freereg.org.uk If you want an accurate family tree you will not rely on online family trees, many of which appear to have been submitted by 'name-collectors' who do not care how tenuous the links are as long as they end up with a family tree that goes back to Adam and Eve. However, it is worth looking for clues in the trees on Ancestry.com and the WorldConnect project at http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ but verify anything you find online by consulting the original records before incorporating the data into your family tree. 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 Genuki has a page for each county where you can locate the County Record Office where the parish records will be held, and other resources for that county.
6. Try this site http://www.tribalpages.com/ Try searching for ancestors you know (grandfather and grandmother?) Someone else may have some one already shown on a family tree. If a password is needed, simply click and send a note. Most folks post a tree to share; but don't want it open for the whole world to see. Remember that anyone can post pretty well anything they want. It is best to use online trees as a "hint" or suggestions of what and who to look for.