Looking for family tree, want this to be a free service help?

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Looking for family tree, want this to be a free service help?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "Free service" - easy one. Get your mother to do it.

There is some chance that when you do the basics, ask the eldest in your family about their parents and grandparents as far back as they recall anything, get full names, dates and places of births, deaths and marriages, you may find that there is already a family historian who's done the research. (After all, who else would research your family?)

If you want to try to do it all yourself for free you can use your local library resources and LDS family history center. You'll find someone those places to help guide and maybe access to census images, as well as local histories which may include historical family members. For free you can also picnic with a notebook & digital camera in family cemeteries for dates &c, and to see who else is buried with family.

Once you get back far enough you may get lucky and find bits and parts of your family tree on others' trees at the free resources at ancestry.com, familysearch.org, genforum.com and gencircles.com. None of my direct families were online until back pre-Revolution colonial times. Not one.