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People have been researching their family trees for many years although there has been an increase with the advent of the Internet.

Many of the large family history sites encourage users to list their family tree online and provide a search facility for the family trees.

People with an interest in the same person are then put in touch with each other to share information.

For people who are starting out in researching their family tree this can be very useful as more than possibly part of their tree has already been researched by someone else.

The administration of online family trees varies from organisation to organisation in the amount of information provided and the way that contact is made but all allow a basic free search.

Rootsweb has the largest collection of family trees with over 575 million names listed.

Online family trees can be a great help but come with a warning - The content is only as good as the person who provided it. many family trees have not been verified and some contain incorrect assumptions.

So if your family tree appears it is worth taking advantage of the details but verify the details again to make sure that they are correct.