Is there any website that can help me make a family tree of 4 generations includ

Question:Just recently i had been given a project on making a family tree but Since my family is so large i found it very hard to do so. So I am looking around for sites but i fail to find one.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Just recently i had been given a project on making a family tree but Since my family is so large i found it very hard to do so. So I am looking around for sites but i fail to find one.

a 4 generation tree including you means you (1) parents (2) grandparents (3) and (4) gr grandparents. Really, this is very basic, but it does run you into the fact that overall, more recent records (persons who are likely to be living) are normally NOT going to be online. For example.. I don't really want someone accessing my birth certificate, since it would probably be misused. It is a violation of my privacy, not to mention risk of id theft. These are both reasons that most govt. agencies (and much of the internet) restrict this.
Therefore.. your project is limited to family interview and information. Assuming your parents know/ remember THEIR grandparents by name.. you have the framework.
www.rootsweb.com does have a guide to starting research on the main page, explaining the process of finding records. In fact, there are thousands of genealogy sites on the net.. another is www.cyndislist.com, which collects such sites.
I realize this is a common assignment now.. I read recently that one reason for it, is avoiding plagiarism (which is rampant). I don't think that all teachers recognize the fact that not all families know about their grandparents. My personal view is that it is asking students about info that should be private, but I am a voice in the wilderness on that.
Your basic would be to include the 'direct' line. You could (if you have the time to expand) include children of these couples, without trying to include ALL the cousins.
Try the guide at rootsweb, and work with your parents on this. I'd love to see you (and others) go further with the research.. but for just a school project, the majority will be within the family.
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ancestry.com is great if you really get into it.. but it is not free, and not reasonable for a school project.

ancestry.com

ancestry.com is really good like the person before me said. I have used it with my class to teach kids how to this. They even have a printable form for you to fill out, so you can turn it in if this is for class.
http://www.ancestry.com/trees/charts/anc...

Others are:
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/...
http://www.kidsturncentral.com/clipart/g...

FamilyTree.com

Or type it yourself
You - one space
Parents - 2 spaces
Grandparents - 4 spaces
GGrandparents - 8 spaces
GGGrandparents - 16 spaces, and you're done.

Did you know that taking your family tree back just 10 generations means knowing the name of 1024 GGGGGGGGGGrandparents! And only one of them bears the direct lineage of our family surname. Food for thought. Tells us all that we're all much more closely related than our ancestors might have thought - family or not. Be happy you're only doing 4 generations - that only requires the names of 16 separate people in the farthest generation, and a total of 31 names overall - including yourself. You should be able to secure them all with a little use of the internet. There are a great many people out there who can and will help and are very generous with their time. Start by interviewing your parents and the oldest living members of the families involved. That's probably all the research you need. Tip: Take a tape recorder - you're going to hear some very interesting things you won't want to forget after they're gone!

Wendy has told you right.

Also like one poster said, get as much information from living family as possible, particularly senior members like grandparents, great aunts and uncles etc, elderly cousins, Tape them if they will let you. It might be they are confused on some things but what might seem to be insignficant story telling might turn out to be very significant. Find out if they have any old Family Bibles. See if they have birth, marriage and death certificates you can copy. The birth and death certificates will have names of parents including mother's maiden name and their place of birth. Also dependinng on the religious faith, other records that give parent names along with mother's maiden name can be baptismal,first communion,confirmation, marriage and death certificates.

Your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.Com you can use.
They have lots of records including all U.S. censuses through 1930. The 1940 and later are not available to the public yet.

Now, don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on ANY website, free or paid. The information is subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different subscribers on the same people, that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying. The info should only be used as CLUES as to where to get the documentation.

Rootsweb and FamilySearch.org are 2 good free sites as they have the "how to" of genealogy on them.

You want to get back to your great grandparents. You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents and 8 great grandparents.

Be sure and post a question if you have one but give the country, state,county or as much as you know. This is an All English Speaking Board and people on it are from the U.S.,U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes we are able to do lookups and find information for people. Just don't give us names and information on living people. It is against Yahoo's Q & A rules and against genealogy ethics. Zabasearch.org and Yahoo People Search are good places to look for the living

Good Luck!

rootsweb.com has done wonders for me