Starting your family tree project can be amazingly fun to start off with. In the beginning it is quick and easy to build your family tree but eventually you will get to a dead end. This is why it’s a good idea to download family tree software for free to start with then when you need it for that brick wall you hit in your research it will be there. Some software will provide you access to over 4 billion birth, marriage, and death records so you can be well on your way to tracing your lineage as far back as when records began.