is there suck a thing as a free family tree?

Answer 1

no suck thing

Answer 2

Yes, there are free web sites that let you research your family tree.

If you live in the USA and are willing to spend an hour and a half, you could do me a HUGE favor and learn about your family tree at the same time.

If you don't live in the USA, read no further; write to me via my profile and I'll give you some free links; or, look in the resolved questions.

If you do live in the USA and want to give it a try:

Get a list of your grandparents, their birth, marriage & death dates and places, maiden names for the grandmothers. If you can do it for your great grandparents, even better. If you don't have all the dates and places for all the people, that is OK.

Then go to

http://www.tedpack.org/genclass1.html

Work through the exercises. They all ask you to look up someone from your list on the free data bases. Where it says to do it for one or two people, do it for all of them. I'd like to know if you find it clear, helpful and well-laid out.

It is for a class I'm going to do at our library on Internet genealogy for beginners.

I'd appreciate feedback; what worked, what didn't, what was clear, what wasn't, what caused you problems. You will probably find some clues to your family tree and you will certainly get an introduction to some of the largest free genealogy sites on the Internet.

Thanks!

Answer 3

To answer this, it's first necessary to understand what you mean by "family tree." If you mean a chart of you and all your Smith, Palovsky, DeAngelo, Bergman, Hufnagel or Yakamoto ancestors back umpteen centuries, such a thing doesn't exist. You can't buy it either, as each family tree is one of a kind. Unless one of your relatives has already done the research (or paid to have it done), the only way to get one is to learn how do the research yourself and then do it or pay somebody else to do it for you.

Any company that claims to sell you a book with "the history of your (insert name here) family" is a scam. They aren't quite illegal, but do rip off many people.

Researching your family tree is a long, complicated process which can be a lot of fun. Genealogy is the fastest growing hobby in the US. Whether you want to do it yourself or to hire someone to do your research, contact your city or county genealogical or historical society. They often offer classes for beginners or can put you in touch with legitimate researchers.

Answer 4

A family tree does not physically exist, as in, like the tree in your back yard. But it is, from a family stand point.

Meaning: you have anncesters. And your family tree kind of decides what traits you will have

Answer 5

I'm finishing a PhD in
biophysics. Back in 1994
and 1995, I was TA'ing a
couple of large lecture
classes at Berkeley. I
decided to make a site
that would allow students
to read each others term
papers and grade them.
They wouldn't be graded on
the reviews they received,
of course, but when I had
been an undergraduate in
rhetoric, I'd always wanted
to read everybody else's
papers, which you don't
typically get to do. We
did it under the auspices
of a double blind peer
review, in which papers
were posted on the Web
with no name. All students
were then randomly
assigned to read and
review two papers. They
were graded on the
reviews, and the papers
were graded by me, who at
the time was making the
equivalent of a Taco Bell
salary. A couple weeks
later, a second wave of
students began essentially
turning in other students.
People would come up to me
and say, "This guy got a
paper off the Web site and
turned it in to this
class; that guy turned it
in to the other class." I
heard of one guy who was
actually selling these
papers, telling people,
"You want a term paper on,
say, Alzheimer's disease?
I can get it for you." So
the students were stealing
each others' intellectual
property, and I was their
enabler.

Answer 6

how would a family tree be free

Answer 7

If you mean web sites that offer free sevices to place your tree online, here's one of my favorites:

http://www2.tribalpages.com/

You have to pay to extend your services, but the basic service for building a tree is free. I love the layout of it.
If you mean actually getting a premade copy of your tree, unless you have a very close relative who has placed one on-line, then no, you have to pay a geneologist to make one or build it yourself. Good luck!

Answer 8

of course there is, it just a term they use because it a tree has branches and that is the same as families.

Answer 9

No. It can not possibly exsist because you dont exactly "buy" your ancestors...They are already "free"....

But i guess it all depends on what you think a family tree is.

Answer 10

Absolutely!! go do some research on the net, try a google search for genealogy.

Answer 11

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/
Lol I was just looking myself. For once a free one, but I can't find who I am looking for still. Hope you do. Melissa