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Does anyone know a free family tree search?

A very good website which is 100% free to search my family tree i cant find one that is free so can any1 help me because i have a very important family my grandad was telling me so i would like to see or mydelf

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1. why should expect to get it for free? You Scousers are all so cheap.
2. These are two of the biggest http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi But 1) Your family may not be on them, unless someone has done the research 2) Only some of the data is accurate. The false entries are not obvious. 3) RWWC has ads at the top that ask for a first and last name, then take you to a pay site. 4) You'll need to start with someone born in the 1800's. 1890 might work, 1850 would be better. You and your parents won't be there.
3. Ancestry.Com isn't free but many public libraries have a subscription to it that you can use for free. Ancestry.Com's great value is the amount of original source records they have online. Now you must distinguish between the records they have obtained and put online and their subscriber submitted family trees. Information in family trees on any website, free or fee, must be viewed with caution. They are submitted by folks like you and me and there are errors. Anytime you find any of your family in any of the family trees and disagree with the information in them, those that run the websites will tell you that is between you and the other subscriber. There is absolutely no way they can verify all the information people submit. Even when you see the same information on the same people from many different subscribers that no way means it is accurate. Too many people copy without verifying. When I go into their website I prefer to go under "Old Search" as I find it is easier to pick out specific records I want to check. You probably won't be able to get a good documented, verifiable family tree without putting out some money. The records you find online can save you time and money but no way are all records online. Check out a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church. They have records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. In Salt Lake City, they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their FHCs can order microfilm for you to view for a nominal fee of about $3. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. They are very nice and helpful and a lot of their volunteers are not Mormon.
4. You can do your own research on Familysearch.org, which is free, or you can use Ancestry.com to see it someone has uploaded a tree for your family. However many of the trees are simply copies of the trees others have uploaded and have no documentation of sources. I have found numerous errors in the trees that involve my family, and those involved do not seen to want to make corrections. If you use Ancestry, and verify the information yourself, you could end up with a very accurate chart. I totally understand about being connected to historical families. I have learned that George Washington & I share a common ancestor, that there is a connection to the Uncle of Aaron Burr (also named Arron); that George Washington once sued a member of another line of my my family and that one of my mothers ancestors was one of the last arrested in Salem in 1692. If you can trace you family back to the 1700's many of us are related to some pretty interesting folks, but then the populations was a lot smaller and people didn't travel then like we do now.