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No Trial, Completely Free, Family Tree Maker And Ancestor Finder?

1) No Free Trials 2) Completely Free 3) Don't Care If Downloaded Or Not 4) For School 5) Has To Be Able To Print Not like Ancestry they make you pay and you can't include siblings I am only 13 i have no spouse

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1. Start with your mom and dad... they should be free and should be able to help you at least get back to their grandparents. A school project doesn't usually require more than 4 or 5 generations. You have to get back to at least 1930 for typical genealogy sites to help you anyway....so start with asking your parents and work backward, go back to at least your deceased ancestors and then ask a good sound question genealogical about them. The talent pool on this board should be able to help.
2. the operative thing in your list, is this is for school. That means, you have to have this in a short period of time. And what THAT means is that you won't be able to find much of it on the internet. You CANNOT find your parents, grandparents, and maybe great grandparents on the internet. IT HAS TO BE built from 'home' information and records, such as grandma's birth or death certificate (or what someone tells you). 99% of what is on the genealogy sites is about persons in the 1800s who are already dead. What we try to explain here, is that to get to that, you need to do the work from yourself, back until you reach that time frame. www.familysearch.org has a free genealogy program. IT DOES NOT find the ancestors, it stores them. You find the names and dates, enter them in the program, and it prints a nice chart. But the most of it, since you have a deadline, will have to be what you can learn from family.
3. If you want free genealogy software - go to familysearch.org - they have a rather basic program for free. Otherwise, talk to your parents (and/or their sibs) and grandparents (and/or their sibs). This usually is the point of this assignment (plus if your grandparents are living take a look of their pics at your age, that's usually pretty nice). Besides that, you'll need to go to your local library's website (if they have one) and see what databases they have. They might have Heritage Quest so you can access it from home - it's got the census, and some other stuff. Ancestry you usually have to be at the library to access. Also if you check all the free site posts there are more than a few - but most probably begin with someone you don't know you are related to. Like a gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparent.
4. Grab your library card and head to the biggest library in your county. Unless it's the God's awefullest library in the country (which I doubt) they should have a completely free to use subscription to either Ancestry.com or Heritage Quest. They'll also have local history books that tell about about people in your town. They'll have old newspapers on film and you can look up marriage, birth and death notices of your family members for as long as they lived in your county. The whole thing is competely free and you just have to spend a day there to get back several generations. When you get home, download PAF from this site and enter in all of your family members...and yes, they let you put in siblings and print the tree. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/
5. I think you are looking for a free genealogy program? Try Legacy 6 Standard www.legacyfamilytree.com. It will let you add siblings, ancestors and you will be able to print charts and reports.