Free Genealogy Web Sites-Find Your Family Now

Genealogy can be an expensive hobby, however with the free genealogy websites and resources on this lens you will save money! Some of the best are cemetery websites where you can find your ancestors such as http://www.deadfred.com and http:www.findagrave.com

Many people in all cities volunteer to search for these graves and put them online.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with its Mormon Family Research Center is usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think about finding your ancestors. Over 2.5 billion records are stored there in Salt Lake City, Utah. and they are free

Go to family search and you will find an amazing web site that is easy to navigate. Click on the pull down tags to get started. The research guides have resources for every state. The library contains a huge amount of free material. If you find a film that may list your relatives, you send to the library and they will send it to you for a small fee.http://www.familysearch.org

Although www.ancestry.com charges for memberships, many of its records are free. Check them often.

New players keep popping up such as Footnote, Vital Records, Cindi's List, Olive Tree Genealogy, USGenWeb, Immigration Transcribers, etc and many states have free records on-line.

www.rootsweb.ancestry.com offers many lists and message boards as well as genealogy sites for free.

Just for fun, google your name, a city or country and see what you find for free. www.gutenberg.org has 27000 books free covering various countries.

Google books are free, too. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, converts to text using optical character recognition, and stores in its digital database. Google Book Search allows public-domain works and other out-of-copyright material to be downloaded in PDF format.

You probably think your family is not in a book, but many counties and states have written histories. Family members may have already written a book about your early ancestors.

Be friendly and talk with everyone you can, in courthouses for example. I found a cousin just by answering his question about who I was looking for. Cousins share grandparents.

I and thousands of other volunteers have been putting the Mormon Church records on-line. They are free to search at www.search.labs.familysearch.org
if you are a volunteer.

DO volunteer (it's easy) and then use the free site and you may find your whole family.

My group leader sent an e-mail: We can still use more help. If you have friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, schoolmates, etc. who may be interested, tell them about the project and invite them to participate.

He says: I quote: "You can contact me on their behalf or ask them to contact me by e-mail" (mrhynard@sbcglobal.net) . &quote; Or if you prefer, send me their contact information and I will contact them for you. Whatever works."

Most of our ancestors immigrated to this country from all over the world. Ellis Island and Castle Garden records are free to search.

All the states in the United States have records online. Put your surnames in quotes and put them on Google. Just type them in and see what you can find.

All genealogists have a brick wall ancestor. They are the ones who must have been dropped from an alien space craft. If you are really stuck, contact me and I might be able to help.

For holidays such as Christmas, Veteran's Day or St. Patrick's Day or "just because", the paid subscription sites such as Ancestry, Genealogy Bank or Vital Records will let you search for free for a limited time. I will try to keep this area up to date.

The National Archives of Ireland census website has been updated to provide new search options for the 1911 census, including: Relation to Head of Household, Literacy, Occupation, Marital Status, County/Country of Origin, Language Proficiency, Specified Illnesses, Number of Years Married, Number of Children Born, and Number of Children Living. All thirty-two counties for 1911 are now available on the site. The 1911 Census of Ireland web site is available free of charge at www.census.nationalarchives.ie


Henry Louis Gates is showing his "Finding Your Roots" shows again this year. Twenty five celebrities including Barbara Walters, Kevin Bacon, Wanda Sykes, Martha Stewart and Sanjay Gupta will discover their roots.

From the LDS website -
Check out the Ireland Research Series - there are 5 online classes covering church records, civil registration and immigration. The link below is for the first lesson, to view the others go to familysearch.org and click on the "Library" tab and then "Education" which will bring you to all of our online classes www.fch.Idschurch.org/WWSupport/Courses/FamilyHistoryLibraryExport/Ireland_Church_Records/Player.html
FamilySearch currently offers 81 free classes covering all topics in genealogy.

Record numbers of genealogists and those interested in the subject are enjoying "Who Do You Think You Are?" again this year. The show is an adaptation of the hit BBC television documentary series created and executive-produced by Alex Graham. Martin Sheen, Rita Wilson, Edie Falco, Helen Hunt, Reba McEntire, Jerome Bettis, Blair Underwood and others will discover their ancestors and explore their native countries.

Genealogists are excited about the 1940 census that was released in April. There is no name index as yet. Volunteers are rapidly making indexes but it will take a while. If you have your family in the 1930 census, use the ED from that census. The enumeration district is the area covered by an census taker. These records are FREE,

The National Archives of Ireland www.census.nationalarchives.ie.com has just announced that the 1901 Census material, with all data transcribed, will be launched before the end of June 2010. All of these records will be available at the same time. Now, you can compare the 1901 and the 1911 Irish census to follow your family.

For free Danish records, go to www.arkivalieronline.dk. you may search in and use the archival material for as long as you like. Click on (Search in parish registers) or (Search in population census) and enter the relevant place names.
You may print out any pages of interest, and you may download pages in the hours between midnight and 9.00 a.m. (between 11.00 p.m. and 8.00 a.m. GMT). These restrictions are necessary in order to prevent downloading of entire parish registers and the consequent delay imposed on other users. These sites are in Danish, but you can click for translation.