answers1: Rootsweb is one of the best. They are actually trying to
make as much free as possible.They have little subsites of just about
every county, city & state in the U.S. Then there is
www.familysearch.com a huge chunk of their stuff is free. The
genealogy forum & ancestry have free message boards that are great. I
found a great aunt, uncle & their 7 kids in an obit on the ancestry
message board.I had no idea all of them had moved to various places
until the one child died. <br>
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But anymore just about anyplace you need to know more about someone
who lived there has some kind of presence on the web to help. Knowing
more specifically what you're looking for would help.
answers2: There are lots of free websites on the Internet. I assume
you are looking for websites to find information about you ancestors.
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Your public libraries will most likely have both Ancestry.com and
Heritage Quest free for anyone to use while at the library and with a
library card you should be able to use Heritage Quest at
home...Heritage Quest has the census and other genealogy reference
material which is very helpful in tracing your ancestors and
Ancestry.com has the most original records of any website. <br>
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Another free online resource is the LDS/Mormon site, which has many
free online records at <a href="http://www.familysearch.org/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org/</a> and
original documents on their pilot site at <a
href="http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsear...</a>
. They have also just added a new Beta site that has a few more
databases, which you might find useful <a
href="http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collection/list"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/collect...</a>
. In addition to their online records, they have the Family History
Centers where you can go for help with research and look at microfilm
and they only charge nominal fees if they have to order something
specifically for you . Find a location near you on their website and
call to check hours of operation. http://www.familysearch.org/ . <br>
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Additionally, USGen Web is another free online resource at
http://www.usgenweb.org/ . This site is packed with how-to tips,
queries and records for every state and most counties within those
states. Then, there is Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ a
free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames,
post queries on the message boards and subscribe to surname mailing
lists. <br>
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Also, do not forget to check Cyndi's List at
http://www.cyndislist.com/ and ProGenealogist top 100 genealogist
websites at http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101best2009 <br>
both of these sites have many links for both free and fee based sites.
answers3: There are many, depending on what your are looking for.
There are free personal family websites and there are sites that are
for research that are free.
answers4: There are over 400,000 free genealogy sites. Among them <br>
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www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, all categorized. <br>
www.familysearch.org - The Mormons. Gazillions of records. <br>
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Roots Web World Connect - 600,000,000+ entries <br>
usgenweb.org - Sites for every county in every state in the USA <br>
ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com - Social Security Death Index, 83 million names <br>
vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - California Death Index,
9,366,786 records <br>
www.findagrave.com - 43 million records <br>
genforum.genealogy.com - Query boards for every county in every state,
and thousands of surnames. <br>
boards.ancestry.com - The other Query board site; counties and
surnames too. <br>
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com Roots Web Mailing List Archive - Over
30 million messages <br>
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I have a page with real links to all of those, below, but you'll have
to wade through some advice and warnings first. <br>
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If you search the resolved questions in this category only for the
word "Free"(use "Advanced" to limit your search to this category
only), you'll find there are thousands questions with the word, and at
least 2/3rds of them ask "How can I trace my family tree for free?",
just like you did. The answers to those questions have lots of links
and tips. We top 10 paste our stock answer to that question 3 - 12
times a day, sigh, and wonder why you kids haven't read the resolved
questions. You are rare and special in some ways, undoubtedly, but not
in your curiosity about your family. As of 7 June 2010 there were
4,456 questions with the word "free" in them in Genealogy. <br>
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If you didn't mention a country, and you didn't go into Yahoo! by one
of their international sub-sites, we can't tell if you are in the USA,
UK, Canada or Australia. I'm in the USA and my links are for it. <br>
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If you are in the USA, <br>
AND most of your ancestors were in the USA, <br>
AND you can get to a library or FHC with census access, <br>
AND you are white <br>
Then you can get most of your ancestors who were alive in 1850 with
100 - 300 hours of research. You can only get to 1870 if you are
black, sadly. Many people stop reading here and pick another hobby.
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No web site is going to tell you how your great grandparents decorated
the Christmas tree with ornaments cut from tin foil during the
depression, how Great Uncle Elmer wooed his wife with a banjo, or how
Uncle John paid his way through college in the 1960's by smuggling
herbs. Talk to your living relatives before it is too late. <br>
<br>
You won't find living people on genealogy sites. You'll have to get
back to people living in 1930 or so by talking to relatives, looking
up obituaries and so forth. <br>
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Finally, not everything you read on the internet is true. You have to
be cautious and look at people's sources. Cross-check and verify.
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So much for the warnings. Here is the main link. <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html</a>
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That page has links, plus tips and hints on how to use the sites, for
a dozen huge free sites. Having one link here in the answer and a
dozen links on my personal site gets around two problems. First, Y!A
limits us to 10 links in an answer. Second, if one or more of the
links are popular, I get "We're taking a breather" when I try to post
the answer. This is a bug introduced sometime in August 2008 with the
"new look". <br>
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You will need the tips. Just for instance, most beginners either put
too much data into the RWWC query page, or they mistake the Ancestry
ads at the top for the query form. I used to teach a class on Internet
Genealogy at the library. I watched the mistakes beginners made. The
query forms on the sites are NOT intuitive.
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