tracing family tree

[yobanfa]

Hi all, Im tracing my family tree, does anyone know of any free sites where i can start looking?

[craft1948]

hi yobanfa - don't know any free ones - I subscribe to 2 so get unlimited searches.....

[dot.hawkes]

if you have managed to collect a good amount of info from your family to lead you back into last century, you can go into your local library and use their internet service for free and access ancestry.co.uk but the library edition, which gives you free access to the civil registration index to births deaths and marriages from 1837 to 1984, also on there you can look at the 1841-1901 census returns with free searches.
You only need to be a library card holder and you're away, no need to subscribe and it will be sufficient to get you started.
You can use the 1911 census (see my thread in the genealogy sub-section under the history topic)/

familysearch.org is the free site from the LDS church that includes the IGI, an index started in the 1950s that lists baptisma and marriages from mainly anglican churches from 1537 to the 1920s. also on there is the index to the 1881 census.

hope that gets you started, use the genealogical sub section to ask any research questions you have.

[CheekyChops]

You can use FreeBMD to search the birth, marriage and death indexes from 1827 to c1930ish - http://www.freebmd.org.uk

You can join and use Roots Chat for free where you can ask for advice and for lookups if you can't afford to subscribe to other sites.

[dot.hawkes]

roots chat is very good actually, that is how we found the Ukranian relative and as it is so international i totally recommend it if you have world wide ancestry

[albaqwerty]

genes.reunited.co.uk or ancestors.com (i think ancestors eventually charge tho)

[dot.hawkes]

they charge for home subscriptions but they are free using the library edition in your local reference library on their computers,

[Wak]

You can also try the Mormon web site at
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
where you can download a FREE excellent Fam Hist program called Personal Ancestral file (PAF) to keep your records.
They have been keeping family records gong back to the 1500 so they have quite a lot of info in their I.G.I. files.
You will have to start with your own closest family members and work backwards.
B.M.D. certificates cost about �7.00 each but can point you to the next lead backwards i.e. Parents, addresses and occupations are listed on Birth certificates.