it will be free in your local library for your districts, or you will be able to pay for using the library's service if they suscribe to one of the main site like ancestry or find my past
Go to your local library it free on their computers though you'll need a pen and paper as they won't print it out, something to do with copyrights.
p.s. of course these sites charge, they employ people they have to pay and the are not funded by the government
dozs of people took years to copy all that info onto computers.