Does any body know of a free family tree program that helps you find your families history.?

Answer 1

there are websites that are free like rootsweb.com and familysearch.org. You need to be really careful about what you find online as the research is only as good as the researcher. Use documents to back up your research. As far as programs, I use family treemaker. It will bring up people who have submitted to them but you have to pay for the information and again you have to prove that the info is correct. you can go to the library and use heritagequest and ancestry for free.
You can do alot online but the main thing is to use birth, death and marriage certificates, cemetery records, etc. They are more reliable. However I have found mistakes on them too. Those records only go back so far and then you're on your own. Family Bibles are a great lead. Just remember way back when folks didn't know how to read or write so they had someone else do it so there is no guarantee that the Bibles are right.
Invest in a book called unpuzzling your past. It's under $20 and it will take you step by step. I bought it years ago when I first started out and recently replaced it because I had used it so much when I got stumped that it fell apart. Mrs Croom has been doing genealogy for more years then I can tell you and she also writes for the rootsweb newsletter. She will give you things you would never think of to look for.
I hope this helps you.
Happy Hunting.

Answer 2

Go to http://www.familysearch.org/

Find the free family software, and check out the site. It's free, and it's a good introduction to genealogy.

http://www.genealogy.com also offers a family tree program, but it comes at a price: they have a Internet based version that searches their data-bases for info on each person you've entered into your tree, so that can be helpful. If you pay for a subscription, you can buy World Family Tree (nice program), which comes with a program called GenSmarts, an artificial intelligence program that automatically searches the net for information on specific individuals. (The default search place is http://www.ancestry.com , which generally charges for information. Oddly enough, it and Genealogy.com are owned by the same company! Duh! You can learn a lot from their free services, anyhow, so they're worth investigating.)

Stick with the free stuff for a while, until you get really hooked and know the lay of the land. The Church of Latter Day Saints are really saints when it comes to this stuff. I've still got another half year of Genealogy.com subscription and I've mined their data-bases out.

It's great fun, though. Be prepared for a lot of late nights searching data bases...Go for as much free stuff as possible first, then consider the pay sites carefully. Pay sites have their uses: it would be far more expensive to travel around the world and search every church or government record. They've done the foot work for us.

Happy hunting!

Answer 3

I like Roots Magic for collecting the data. It is $29. It seems like it is usually two steps ahead of FTM; like a fully loaded Buick instead of a stripped-down Chevy. It is simpler to use and has a better data base design. If you know what "normalization" is, write to me via my profile and I'll expand on that.

For another $29 you can buy GenSmarts:
http://www.rootsmagic.com/gensmarts/

which will make suggestions.

You will have to do much of the work yourself until you get into people born before 1900.

GenCircles.com has a feature called "GenMatching". If you upload a GEDCOM to them, their wizard will mull it over for a couple of days, then show you everyone else who has people with the same name and birth year.

You didn't ask for links; if you click on "Top 10 Answerers", then look through the "Best Answers" for Rust Skipper at least, then the other top 10 except "Ted P", you'll find lots. "Ted P" is the ghost of me past.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The FREE online family trees at ancestry.com.

Answer 6

familytree.com