Your Favorite Free (or Low-Cost) Genealogy Resources

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Permalink Reply by Brian Zalewski on July 9, 2009 at 9:20am

For Dutch/Netherlands resources in the Zeeland area, I found a lot of useful information here: http://www.zeeuwengezocht.nl/default_E.htm

Even though you have to pay for actual copies, Wisconsin Vital Records allows you to search it's record collection. You can even get some basic info from the searches.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/

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Permalink Reply by Midge Frazel on July 9, 2009 at 9:43am

I wanted to keep all my cemetery resources in one place and have them accessible to other people too, so I made a simple Web page of them. They aren't all free and I do take suggestions but I think people might benefit from knowing where it is:
http://www.midgefrazel.net/cemetery.html

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Permalink Reply by Sandy Jacques on July 9, 2009 at 11:28am

I forgot to mention "archive.org". It includes many, many resources where you may find information. Specifically, click on "Texts", then slide down and click on "Additional Collections", then slide down and click on "Genealogy". It includes many, many family histories and other books for genealogists. When you find what you want, go to the box on the left and "view the book". You are given several options of how to view. You can even download. Happy searching!

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Permalink Reply by Richard Aurand Sherer on July 9, 2009 at 12:22pm

Great! Thanks.

Sandy Jacques said:

Try Olddeathrecords.org. It's free.

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Permalink Reply by William Reinbold on July 24, 2009 at 10:00pm

I tried to use this web site and it immediately hit me up for a fee to view search results.

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Permalink Reply by Miriam Robbins Midkiff on July 24, 2009 at 10:31pm

I'm sorry, I meant, William, not Richard. Was it Archives.org or Olddeathrecords.org?

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Permalink Reply by Denise Coughlin on July 9, 2009 at 12:24pm

Those are 2 GREAT sites for upstate New York!!!

Reply by Thomas MacEntee 1 day ago

My absolute favorites and necessary for anyone researching 19th and 20th century upstate New York ancestors:

Northern New York Historical Newspapers (http://news.nnyln.net/) - free digitized newspapers for Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence Counties

Old Fulton Postcards (http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html) - free digitized newspapers for Mohawk Valley and Finger Lakes newspapers and more!

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Permalink Reply by Amy Abbey on July 9, 2009 at 5:09pm

http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/ and http://www.jewishgen.org/ are wonderful sites. The first link here is into the Polish records, which are kept very well.
I have also used Heritage Quest at http://www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/index through a remote access from my local library as well as the NY Times Archives http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html through the same remote access.
Castle Garden is helpful as well http://www.castlegarden.org/
And of course, there is Facebook! I actually joined Facebook when a distant cousin showed up on Google as having a Facebook page. www.Facebook.com. Then I joined MySpace too.
I have also used GenCircles http://www.gencircles.com/

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Permalink Reply by David on July 9, 2009 at 9:27pm

Richard...thanks for highlighting my site, http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx

You'd be surprised how much traffic your one post has created :-) I've been researching and compiling free online newspaper archives for years now, and think I've got the best list available. There are hundreds of resources here, both in the US and internationally. I hope y'all will drop on by. If anyone knows of resources that should be added, just drop me a line through the Contact Us form at my site.

Thanks all, and happy researching.

David

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Permalink Reply by tami osmer glatz on July 19, 2009 at 10:19pm

Hi David, Hope its OK, I've included it (http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx) as a link on my toolbar under InPrint - Newspapers
(http://RelativelyCurious.OurToolbar.com/)

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Permalink Reply by Sherry Hightower on July 10, 2009 at 3:59am

Yes!! I try to add genealogical or historical info when I can find it. Some appreciate the effort, some do not.

Caroline Pointer said:

I really like using FindaGrave.com. It's not complete, but sometimes you can find some very useful genealogical clues.

Caroline

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Permalink Reply by WibblingJo on July 10, 2009 at 7:01am

For UK records try http://www.freebmd.org.uk this is a searchable database of the BMD indices from 1837ish to early 1900's

For Ireland - the 1911 census can be searched and viewed at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/

I've used both quite extensively and found them both really useful.

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