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Free Civil War Records for a Limited Time!

Admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:46:37 +0000

Hey everyone – I just ran across an email from Footnote.com that they are allowing free access to all their Civil War records for the month of June! WOW! Now, that is an offer that you certainly don’t want to pass on! All you need is to sign up for a free account in order [...]

Map Your Name with this Cool Tool

Kimberly — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:44:55 +0000

Your surname tells a history of your family. Surnames can generally be traced to an origin point and even though people have migrated to other countries, there are still folks who stayed behind with those surnames and live there today. The creators of MapYourName.com have made it easy to see where your surname originated from [...]

Free Genealogy Templates – Forms and Charts to Keep You Organized

Kimberly — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:09:29 +0000

Once you’ve started making progress in your genealogy research, you will quickly start to notice that you have a growing pile of papers and notes that will need to be organized. Early on in your research, you should locate some free genealogy templates to help you keep track of the families in your tree. Genealogy [...]

Free Genealogy Software to publish your family tree online – GedHTree

Kimberly — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:30:46 +0000

Posting your tree online can be a fun way to connect with distant relatives. It’s fairly simple to do if you have the right tools. I first came across GedHTree software back in 2001 or 2002. I was searching for an easy way to put my family tree on my personal genealogy web site. After [...]

Free Obituaries – Where to Find Your Ancestors’ Obituaries

Kimberly — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:56:01 +0000

For most of our ancestors, who were hard working people and didn’t achieve high status during their lives, the only biography that was ever written about them was their obituary. Obituaries are often chock full of information about your ancestor’s family, including names and dates, locations where they lived previously, clubs or churches they belonged [...]

Free Genealogy Searches at Rootsweb

Kimberly — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:56:57 +0000

Rootsweb is perhaps the largest and oldest free genealogy community online. It used to be entirely run by volunteers but in 2004 was acquired by Ancestry.com which provides the funds to support it. Never fear, however, as all of the genealogy records on Rootsweb still remain free to access by anyone. If you haven’t made [...]

Ellis Island Immigration Records – The key to finding your immigrant ancestors

Kimberly — Mon, 03 May 2010 13:52:10 +0000

The United States has been the destination for millions of immigrants. You can find out if your immigrants entered the United Stated through New York City by checking out Ellis Island immigration records. Ellis Island opened in 1892, taking over from the Castle Garden facility. There is a lot of information about Ellis [...]

Free Genealogy Websites to Find Cemetery Burial Records

Kimberly — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:25:17 +0000

Cemetery burial records should not be overlooked in your research. Burial records can substitute for missing death records or add value in their own right to your research of your ancestors. There are many, many free genealogy websites that have transcriptions of burial records, however, most of them are on small sites that perhaps only [...]

Gravestone Photo Project – Search gravestone photos for free

Kimberly — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:48:24 +0000

The Gravestone Photo Project came into being from the brainstorming of one IAGenWeb county coordinator and his son. The first Gravestone Photo Project was from Iowa and now, at least 15 other states have their own Gravestone Photo Projects! As of today, those states include Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Nebraska, New Jersey, New [...]

Ancestry Toolbar Helps Search and Organize Genealogy Sources

Kimberly — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:26:01 +0000

It’s not a surprise that Ancestry.com has come up with a new gadget to help you find your ancestors. Recently, Ancestry.com released a new toolbar which you can install to your web browser. What the toolbar allows you to do is grab information off any genealogy website you might be looking at and add it [...]

Where to find County Vital Records for Free

Kimberly — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:11:43 +0000

County vital records are one of the most sought after pieces of genealogical information. Vital records are the official records left behind by your ancestors as they moved through life. These are the “facts” about your ancestor – when and where they were born, when and where they got married, when and where they died, [...]

Find your ancestors land records for free with BLM General Land Office Records

Kimberly — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:54:54 +0000

Another often overlooked resource researchers neglect when searching for their ancestors is land records. There is a lot of information recorded during a land transaction and it could be just the document that ties your research together. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) General Land Records Office (GLO) provides a wonderful service as you search [...]

Genealogy Networking Sites – The Future of Online Genealogy

Kimberly — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:24:51 +0000

There is a fun new way of looking up your relatives and keeping in touch with your family members. Through the growing number of sites known as Genealogy 2.0 sites, people all over the world can start putting up their family trees online and linking up with distant relatives. These genealogy networking sites serve as [...]

Find Canada Genealogy Information for Free at the Library and Archives Canada

Kimberly — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:56:13 +0000

Those with Canadian ancestry can get all the information they need when undertaking a genealogy research project through the internet. Canada genealogy information is available in a collection of databases developed by the Canadian Genealogy Centre in the Library and Archives Canada. The Library and Archives Canada has a significant collection of cultural and historical [...]

Find Ancestors Land Records with BLM and Google Earth (VIDEO)

Kimberly — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:38:38 +0000

I’ve created a little video for you that shows you how to take the results from your search at the BLM-GLO website and view them live in Google Earth!! I show you how to take the township and range information, input it into a conversion tool and voila – instant map of your ancestor’s land! [...]