Hi
I know you wanted a free site, however, if you pay £10.00 for the year with genes reunited. You will be amazed about how many people are researching the same family. My mother and I have been doing the family tree and have got back to the 15th century - a lot of help was through genesreunited. Also there is the government record site A2A, they may be able to help espeically if you think one of your rellies was in the army