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Free Family Tree??

I want to find out about my family tree but i dont want to pay so i was wondering if you know any good sites i can go or free?

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no i dont
You could try http://www.familysearch.org/ its completely free to use and its amazing I love the site.
This is a great link, it has so many links to offer in the United States and other countries. http://genpals2003.favos.nl/
You don't "find" it; you have to create it. What makes you think you can just go on some website and *poof*, your whole family tree is there, all completed and accurate and free. Considering the years it takes to do that, who is going to do that for you? Genealogy is not that simple. It does not work that way. First, you are not going to find anything on anyone who lived in the last 50-100 years. It is unethical to post anything on anyone living or that recently deceased as it protects the identity of the living from identity theft and scams. Professional genealogists know this. Second, IF you do find anything on the internet of your family (probably starting around 1900 and going back), you cannot assume just because it is on the internet means it is accurate. The only way to know if the information you find is right is to do your OWN research from scratch. A lot of people out there copy and paste other people's bad "research" and don't verify anything. That is wrong. Third, unless you have a great-aunt or someone who has already done some research and posted it on the net, then your family will not be on the internet. People don't usually go around researching trees of total strangers for no reason at all and just put it on the internet for that stranger to one day find their whole family tree in 5 clicks or less. Fourth, genealogy is fun and rewarding, but also very difficult and challenging, like putting together a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. And will take longer than doing that puzzle to do. The best thing to do is to start by asking questions of your living relatives. Collect as much information as possible regarding names, dates, places, etc. and DOCUMENT EVERYTHING. Then start an internet search as well as doing some research the old fashion way (going to libraries, court houses, cemeteries, etc.). If you find anything on the net, you need to try to reproduce the research yourself and see if you can find legitimate documentation of the individual, dates, or event in order to be sure the information is accurate. Trees on the net are to be used as clues and guidelines......not as gospel. Ask the poster about their resources and proof. Many times, you can find scanned copies of original documents such as census records. Otherwise, I would not take their word for it that what they have is right. As far as what sites to use, there are tons of them. You will need to just google for genealogy sites and sift through them. Some are free, some are not. All are subject to many errors, inaccurate, undocumented information that you will have to sift through and find what is right and what is not. You will probably end up using a combination of free and paid sites. Last, you will not accomplish this overnight, in a week, month, or year. It is a LIFETIME hobby and passion, that, inspite of the countless hours you spend at it, it will never be completed. There is always another piece of the puzzle to find. If you are not willing to do all this, then you really are not interested in the truth of your family. If you expect it to fall into your lap, all done and completed, and accurate, and FREE, with no work or challenge at all, then you are in for a rude awakening. Besides, that takes all the fun out of it.
Violet has pretty much explained it. FamilySearch.org and Rootsweb are 2 good free sites. I feel Ancestry.Com is the best for its records but it is not free. Your public library might have a subscription to it that you can use. They have all the U. S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet. They also have U.K. censuses. Information in family trees on ANY website, free or paid, must not be taken as absolute fact. They are subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information on the same people from many different subscribers that is no guarantee at all that it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. The information can be valuable as clues as to where to look for the documentation. You should check out your public library. Also, a Family History Center at a Latter Day Saints(Mormon) Church has records on people all over the world, not just Mormon. They are free to use but you need to find out their hours for 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 either. First, you should get as much information from your living family as possible, particularly your senior members. Tape them if they will let you. They might be confused on some things, but what might seem to be insignificant story telling might turn out to be very significant. If you have any questions, come back and ask them on this board. However, understand one thing. This is an All English Speaking Board. People on it are from the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand. So state where you are from and if in the U. S. which state you are looking for an ancestor in, if you know it, and as much info as possible. Just don't put information on here regarding living people as that is a violation of the rules. Zabasearch.com and Yahoo People Search can be helpful in locating living persons.
That word again. Free. I despair. I really do. And no disrespect, but I wish people would stop recommending the Mormon familysearch site to complete beginners. Details of people born or still living in the 20thC are not going to be found within its pages and advising people to look there to magically try and find their parents or grandparents is just misinformation on a grand scale. Even genesreunited, rootsweb and tribalpages usually hides living people from search engine results, so realistically until you come close to breaking that "1901 barrier" for yourself, none of the free websites are much good at all, and if you aren't planning on spending any money on your quest you will NEVER break the 1901 barrier and might as well give it up now as a bad idea. Start here and read very carefully: http://www.genuki.org.uk/ and then try here http://www.rootsweb.com/. Then get yourself a book on the subject. In the meantime, if granny still has all her marbles, go and ask her about the family and make notes - then ask all the other older family members you can think of. Maybe one of them has an old family bible or a tin of old photos and documents they'll let you have. See how far living memory can take you. That will be free. It's once you get outside of living memory that this hobby starts to cost. And if you're not prepared to pay at some point, you're just wasting your time. It's a not-so-short, brutal answer, but it happens to be the truth. I'm not going to sit here and sugar-coat things for you. It's not half as easy or cheap as the BBCs "Who Do You Think You Are?" makes it out to be. It can also be quite hard to explain in 1000 words or less, but fortunately, plenty of people out there on various forums will do all they can to help you and point you in the right direction. What they won't do however is spend any of their money on your behalf, so don't ask them to.
Most public libraries have a subscription to ancestry.com that you can access in house. The best information I found was reading a message board.