where is a free place to find a family tree?
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This is a long, general answer about beginning genealogy, with some links. Genealogy is a fascinating hobby, but it usually takes more time than most young people are willing to spend.\n\nGenealogy is the most popular hobby on the Internet for people over 40. As an example, Cyndi's List (cyndislist.com) is a web site with nothing but links to other genealogy sites. She has over 250,000 links.\n\nThe next two links are to the two largest free data bases on the Internet. Family Search (familysearch.com) is run by the LDS Church - the Mormons. RootsWeb World Connect (worldconnect.genealogy) is a collection of genealogical data that other genealogists have uploaded. \n\nTry your two surnames in each data base - your father's surname and your mother's maiden surname. That will give you a feel for how much research has been done on those two surnames. Even better, if you can, call your grandparents and ask what THEIR grandparent's names were - maiden name for the ladies. Their birth day and birth state will help too. Those 16 people are your great-great grandparents. \n\nMost Yahoo! users are 20, give or take 10 years. Most people have children between the ages of 20 and 40, which averages to 30 years per generation. So, if you were born 20 years ago, your mother and father were born 50 years ago, your four grandparents were born 80 years ago, your eight great-grandparents were born 110 years ago and your sixteen great-great grandparents were born 140 years ago. (Those are averages; your results will vary. If you can get the names of all 16 of your great-great grandparents, you should be able to find at least one or two by name in one of the data bases.\n\nThe fourth link (superpages) is a web-based phone book. It will tell you how many people with your surname have listed phone numbers in the US.\n\nThe last link (begingen.html) is a page on my web site with some hints for beginners.
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You can do some free research starting here:  http://www.familysearch.org/  It has tons of information, lots of helps, and can direct you to genealogy libraries nearby.
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One of the best places to get started is Cyndi's List of Geneaology Sites. You say you can afford more sites so try ancestry.com. They have a huge repository of data but it costs about $80 per year to subscribe.
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i don't thank you can unless you are a relative. you can use some of the on line search sites. the deeper you go to find information the more it costs.(in my experience) so beware, i know, I've been there. try ancestry,com for starters.
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Ancestry.com is great to start with, they have taken over everything they could get their hands on so they have all the archives.  If you can find one household in the Census records you'll find you can go back from there.  You'll find enough just from Ancestry to make a pretty good tree, and through their message boards you're likely to run into distant cousins looking at the same thing.
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The L.D.S. church puts out a wonderful program called P.A.F. or Personal Ancestory File. It is a free download.  I think that you can either find it on geneology.com or lds.org  Good luck!
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You might be able to try http://www.ancestory.com \nHope it helps!
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go to ancestry.com it cost money though not to sure how much
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ancestry.com is a good one
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Type in your family name at www.findaperson.com It is free.
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go to myheritage.com that site should help. \n\nthere is also ancestry.com but you have to pay for that I think.
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These are all excellent sites. As you explore them you will find many more free access sites.\n\nhttp://www.rootsweb.com/\nhttp://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp\nhttp://www.familysearch.org/\nhttp://www.castlegarden.org/\nhttp://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/\nhttp://freebmd.rootsweb.com/\nhttp://www.cyndislist.com/
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The very best is ancestory.com. You get a free 3 day trial with no obligation. I did it for 3 days and didnt pay a cent. This was about 6 months ago. I dont know about you but I found a lot of people in 3 days.\n It gives you all kinds of info. telephone, address even their frickin' social security #. All for free!
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check out cindy's list at www.cindyslist.com this is one of the best starting points on the web. Genweb is also a good site. Ancestry.com and genforum also have some free aspects. the latter day saints website also is a good starting point to find family. I have been doing this for about 5 years now and have enjoyed the community and new friends from it as well. Have fun!
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That requires some research. One of the best places to do research is Net Detective, the link is in my sources. You can look up people and run surname searches to investigate your or someone elses family history.
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You can start by asking family members as much as you can about parents, grandparents etc. including places of birth etc. After you get all that information a good place to start is www.rootsweb.com, it is a free ancestry site that is hosted by www.ancestry.com. You can look up ancestors by surname (last name), locations (country,state,county,and city). There are many other headings that can help you. You can also search family trees, someone else may have already done research on one of your ancestors. You can also request a look-up and someone might research census records from 1790-1910 to help you. There is also a site www.familysearch.org., it is also a free site hosted by the LDS (Church of The Latter Day Saints), they have birth, death, marriage and the census from 1880.
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Family trees don't have symbols.\n\nDo an image search on "family tree."\n\nAlso, family trees are called "pedigree chart."\n\nIt is best to put your genealogical information into a computer program.  They can print out a family tree and other kinds of forms.  Personal Ancestral File is a good one, and it's free!\n\nCheck your local library or online for help knowing how to do research.  You can also ask at the public library to learn how to contact your local genealogical society; they will be glad to help you.