Does anyone know a FREE website were I can trace back my family as far as possible?
You could search the World Connect project at Rootsweb to see if anyone has already done research on your ancestors (view these trees with caution as much of the ‘research’ is suspect – verify anything you find online by consulting the original records before incorporating the data into your family tree):- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ The national indexes of birth, marriage and death up to about 1930 can be consulted at freebmd. Civil registration was introduced in England and Wales on 1st July 1837, although registration of births was not compulsory until 1875. http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.p… Some local registration offices are putting their indexes online:- http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ The census returns from 1841 to 1911 are held at the National Archives at Kew and you can access the censu
