Heritage Album

Where can I find a website that gives you a free family tree?

Maybe to see if your famous or something? I need it to be FREE!

Public Comments

1. PAF - www.family.org is a free program you can download from their website
2. ancestry.com
3. www.myheritage.com
4. Dear, I believe people must be saying that everyone can find their family tree on the web. That is not so. You might find some of your family lines, but they must be verified and that takes time and no doubt, money. Rootsweb and FamilySearch.org are 2 good free websites as they give "how to" of genealogy. You cannot take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The information is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same informtion repeatedly by many different subscribers, that i no guarantee at all that it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. Also, for instance, if they have Family Tree Maker and a subscription to Genealogy.Com, they can merge other people's trees into theirs and then upload the merged tree into various websites including back to Genealogy.Com. Unfortunately, Genealogy.Com encourages that which means some people are just accumulating a lot of names and really don't have a verifiable family tree. I understand a lot of people put names in their tree knowing it probably isn't right just to see how many people will copy. Now, your public library just might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com which has lots of records. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They have U. K. censuses also. A Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church is free to use and has records on people all over the world, not just Mormons. You just need to know what hours they are available to the general public. In Salt Lake City,they have the world's largest genealogical collection. Their Family History Centers can order microfilm for you to view at a nominal fee. I have never had them to try and convert me or send their missionaries by to ring my doorbell. I haven't heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resources. But the first thing you should do is get as much information from living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. It might be they are confused on some things, but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might be very important. Find out if any of your family has any old family bibles. Ask to see and make copies of birth, marriage and death certificates and for people of some faiths their baptismal, first communion, confirmaiton and marriage certificates are important. You start with yourself and work back. Don't try to work down from some person from whom you think you might be descended. While you are at your library and the Family History Center, you will no doubt be able to talk with other researchers and sharing experience and ideas is how people learn.
5. Look outside. If you see at least two paparazzi camped on your door step, you are famous. If not, you are not. You have a your / you're problem. People notice. Older, smart ones, at least. Your friends probably don't know the difference. Your 8th grade English teacher TOLD you people would judge you by your grammar and you didn't believe her. Now you look like a dufus in front of the whole world. I can give you a site with my tree if you like. That is **A** family tree. It is free. If you want one with YOUR tree, you'll have to research it. That's what I did.