Good Free Genealogy/Ancestor Site?

I’m hoping to make a detailed family tree however I was hoping to find a free site almost (it’d be amazing if it was better) than Ancestry.com. Ancestry is a great site however I do not have money to spend on the features I’d like to use. I’m looking for a site with most of the features ancestry has but for free, if possible. I love the online family tree generator and also the VERY large search database. Does anyone know a comparable, or useful, site?
Thanks in advance!
Sorry,
I am from the USA and so is half of my family however the other half may have come from Mexico.
I am white.

I don’t have one I have many and Ancestry.com is among them. I’m not sure about the online tree generator, however, there are a couple of genealogy software programs that you can download that are free. One is PAF on FamilySearch.org and can be downloaded at: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp the other is Legacy Family Tree and can be downloaded at: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Download.asp

As for free genealogy sites your public libraries will most likely have both Ancestry.com and Heritage Quest.com free for anyone to use while at the library and with a library card you can use Heritage Quest at home.

Another free online resource is U.S. GenWeb at: http://www.usgenweb.org/ they have a page for every state and everything is free. Then there is Rootsweb at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/, a free site hosted by Ancestry.com where you can search for surnames and leave queries on the message boards. Additionally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention FamilySearch.org they have many free online records and are digitizing more every day, all free. Their website is: http://www.familysearch.org/. Be sure to check each state that you need information from as many have their own projects, for example, the state of Missouri has a great website that has many free source documents online at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/ and South Carolina has many free wills at http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinear…

Also, do not forget to check Cyndi’s List at http://www.cyndislist.com, which has many links for both free and paid sites.

I’m sure I could come up with many more websites but these should keep you busy for a while and there should be lots of family history to be found for free with all these websites.

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