What is the best free in depth genealogy resource?

there on 400,000 free genealogy sites. among them

www.cyndislist.com - 250,000 links, categorized.
www.familysearch.org - mormons. gazillions of records.
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com - roots web world connect - 600,000,000+ entries
usgenweb.org - sites every county in every state in usa
ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com - social security death index, 83 million names
vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/ - california death index, 9,366,786 records
www.findagrave.com - 43 million records
genforum.genealogy.com - query boards every county in every state, , thousands of surnames.
boards.ancestry.com - other query board site; counties , surnames too.
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com roots web mailing list archive - on 30 million messages

have page real links of those, below, you'll have wade through advice , warnings first.

if search resolved questions in category word "free"(use "advanced" limit search category only), you'll find there thousands questions word, , @ least 2/3rds of them ask "how can trace family tree free?", did. answers questions have lots of links , tips. top 10 paste our stock answer question 3 - 12 times day, sigh, , wonder why kids haven't read resolved questions. rare , special in ways, undoubtedly, not in curiosity family. of 22 july 2010 there 4,583 questions word "free" in them in genealogy.

if didn't mention country, , didn't go yahoo! 1 of international sub-sites, can't tell if in usa, uk, canada or australia. i'm in usa , links it.

if in usa,
, of ancestors in usa,
, can library or fhc census access,
, white
can of ancestors alive in 1850 100 - 300 hours of research. can 1870 if black, sadly. many people stop reading here , pick hobby.

no web site going tell how great grandparents decorated christmas tree ornaments cut tin foil during depression, how great uncle elmer wooed wife banjo, or how uncle john paid way through college in 1960's smuggling herbs. talk living relatives before late.

won't find living people on genealogy sites. you'll have people living in 1930 or talking relatives, looking obituaries , forth.

finally, not read on internet true. have cautious , @ people's sources. cross-check , verify.

warnings. here main link.

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

page has links, plus tips , hints on how use sites, dozen huge free sites. having 1 link here in answer , dozen links on personal site gets around 2 problems. first, y!a limits 10 links in answer. second, if 1 or more of links popular, "we're taking breather" when try post answer. bug introduced sometime in august 2008 "new look".

need tips. instance, beginners either put data rwwc query page, or mistake ancestry ads @ top query form. used teach class on internet genealogy @ library. watched mistakes beginners made. query forms on sites not intuitive.

i want extend family tree far possible every website go has paying fin book or website provides me information without having pay penny. no website or book

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