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Article #317: 10 No-Fee Resources for Climbing Your Family Tree Online

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As the Webmaster of pages, and cemeteries.
Genealogy-and-History.com, I'm often 6. This fascinating site is loaded with
asked if it's possible to find family genealogy records, including military
tree data that doesn't come with a price rosters, regional resources, links to
tag. My answer is yes! My favorite no-fee biographies and surname registries, and
sites are: obituaries. In addition, you can request
1. FamilySearch.org This popular site a no-charge lookup from the many
now has over 1 BILLION names in its volunteers associated with this site; the
online database. Search by surname (last volunteers will look up your surnames in
name), spouse's name, parents' name or both genealogy CDs and genealogy books.
place. Includes no-fee access to the 1880 7. Search and view millions of names that
United States census, 1881 British Isles have been uploaded by other family tree
and Canada censuses, as well as the researchers-all without a charge. New
Social Security Death Index. policies have instituted a small fee for
2. Perhaps the best place for beginning use of the "smart matching" technology,
American research. With a Website for but all searches and viewing of data
every single county in the United States, remain without a cost.
this site provides no-charge access to 8. Interment.net No cost search of close
items like county histories, biographies, to 4 million names in more than 8,000
court records, census transcripts, and cemeteries world-wide. If you are hitting
historic photos. Each county site is a brick wall in your research, be sure to
managed by a volunteer, so the amount of search for the surname on this site as
information varies dependent on the you may find a burial notice in a state
volunteer's efforts. or area that you have not yet researched.
3. EllisIsland.org Want to find your Special collections include some National
immigrant ancestor? Head to this Website. Cemeteries and flooded cemeteries.
No charge access to database containing 9. Sometimes the quickest way to climb
25 million ships' passenger records your family tree is to connect with other
covering entry through the Port of New people who are researching the same
York and Ellis Island from 1892-1924. names. This Website has more than 83,000
This site was first launched on April 17, genealogy queries posted; these are posts
2001, and has received over 6 billion by people who are searching for a
hits. specific surname. It's possible you'll
4. Search more than 385 million names in find an Internet cousin or two on this
researcher-donated files. Download site. Sharing research is an excellent
ancestor and descendant results, view technique for getting faster results.
individual records and sources, and 10. One of the oldest genealogy sites on
contact people who are researching the the Internet, and filled with no-fee
same surname. Although Rootsweb is now searchable databases. This site is huge
owned by Ancestry, this database has (more than 1,7000 pages and almost 1,500
no-fee access. databases!) so take some time going
5. More than 2 million links to genealogy through the site so you don't miss out on
resources. Includes links to both surname any family information. Includes ships
Websites, and regional resources by passenger lists, church records, military
state. Includes links to mailing lists, records, city directories, and links to
clubs, message boards, personal surname Native American genealogy sites.






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