| Free genealogy databases are becoming | | | | outside these areas if you think you have gotten |
| increasingly common and loaded with information. | | | | stuck somewhere and unable to proceed further |
| Any research of your family tree invariably | | | | on a branch. |
| makes use of these databases to track down | | | | - Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| ancestors and a host of other related information. | | | | maintains a website cwgc.org that provides the |
| It is not very difficult to find out free genealogy | | | | details of the soldiers from the Commonwealth |
| databases but there are so many of them that it | | | | (and the colonies of UK included) who died during |
| can become difficult to track them down. The | | | | the World Wars. You can thus get lots of |
| following guide will help you get started. | | | | information about your ancestors who might have |
| - has a World Connect Project that allows people | | | | died in the Wars. This can generally be a |
| from across the globe to submit their family trees | | | | bottleneck in the tree, and finding such an |
| and information, along with the sources. This is | | | | ancestor can lead to the discovery of a whole |
| one great place to start your search as there is a | | | | branch, so it can get very helpful at times. |
| lot of information available. Since it is posted by | | | | - For US citizens and those with a part of their |
| users, there is an added advantage of diversity | | | | family tree in that country, Heritage Quest Online |
| across nations (many databases can be very | | | | contains a wealth of information including complete |
| country specific). There may be a few cases of | | | | federal census data for more than 200 years. |
| errors so might want to validate the information | | | | Apart from this, it contains war pension files and |
| here through authentic citations. | | | | other information that would be otherwise difficult |
| - Interment.net maintains records from thousands | | | | to obtain. The only drawback is that it is |
| of cemeteries totaling millions of people from | | | | accessible only through library membership in the |
| across the world. There are also helpful resources | | | | United States or through other genealogical |
| linking to other cemeteries to supplement your | | | | societies. Also, the files are present as images and |
| research. This is a very helpful resource that you | | | | thus it takes more time to search. |
| would often use to track dead ancestors. | | | | It is worthwhile to remember that information not |
| - WorldGenWeb is an ambitious project that aims | | | | from official sites maintained by governments and |
| to collect a huge amount of genealogical data | | | | libraries should be verified before using it. This |
| from all over the world. The best thing is that you | | | | should not in any way deter you from using free |
| would find a lot of information and sources in all | | | | genealogy databases, however The errors are |
| countries and not just US, Western Europe and | | | | not all that common and they more often than |
| Australia as is the case with many free | | | | not at the very least provide a clue and direction |
| genealogical databases. Therefore this record can | | | | for your research. The verification is in most |
| be especially useful for parts of your family tree | | | | cases only to authenticate your research. |