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Your Favorite Free (or Low-Cost) Genealogy Resources
Tell about your favorite free or low-cost genealogy resources, online and off. Explain why it's a favorite and how it's been helpful in your research.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Ferguson on
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Basically this is what the London Gazette is for, ie. public announcements it also contains armed forces promotions, national honours awarded, medals awarded etc. I agree that it can be extremely useful.
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Permalink Reply by Nancy Adams on
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This is from the Latter Day saints. It is a free search site. When you log in go to the pull down and go to pilot search.
I have found over 500 of my family death cert. and census, marriage. It is wonderful.
http://familysearch.org/
I also use findagrave. My user name there is jadorah. I have been a member for 8 yr. Love that site.
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In the UK for the county of Cheshire I would recommend the Cheshire Parish Register Project at http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/ . It is not yet complete but has a wide coverage of births, marriages and burials extracted from the Parish Registers for a large part of the county.
Also available are similar sites under the titles name of county On-line Parish Clerk eg. Lancashire On-line Parish Clerk which is the one I'm familiar with at http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
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Permalink Reply by Tara Pfarner on
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My local public library provides databases free to library card holders. It is mostly census records that are useful to me, and I can access it right from home!
I also like PAGenWeb for my Pennsylvania research.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Benham on
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Without a shadow of a doubt the most useful resource I use for my English ancestry is http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
If I didn't have these birth, marriage and death registration indexes to search through I'd be lost!
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Permalink Reply by Brenda Wordsworth on
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I agree. As time goes by this resource is becoming more useful as more and more records are transcribed. Help by becoming a transcriber!
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Dempsey on
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I've had a tough time trying to find information on my great grandfather's family. The only things that I know is his name, my great grandmother's name. He had 2 older sons, then my grandfather. Supposedly they were married in Arkansas. I know when they were married, but I can't seem to find anything. I don't want to have to pay for a site and wind up empty handed. I've been told to try to look in census, but it's hard when you only know the names, but no birthdays or about where they might be. I've been told Arkansas and that he worked on the railroad and supposedly went to Texas. If anyone can help me, it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!
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Permalink Reply by Miriam Robbins Midkiff on
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Jennifer, a few suggestions:
Try http://www.resourceguides.net to find access to online vital and census records (free or subscription). I also suggest you find out if there is an Arkansas Group here on GenealogyWise and post your query there.
Remember to work from the present to the past. You should have documents tracing your great-grandfather from his death to his birth, and not the other way around. Try to find him on the latest census record that's available (for instance, was he alive in 1930?) and go back census year by census year. Figure out where his oldest child was born and that may give you a clue as to where (what county) in Arkansas he was married.
Remember, too, that you can rent microfilmed records at a pretty low cost at your local Family History Center. If you don't know where that is, go here. Most records are not available online, but if you find out what county he could have been married in, you may be able to order the microfilmed records through your local Family History Center cheaper than ordering the record from the county or the state. Also, don't forget Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness...someone may be able to look up the record for you, once you narrow down a location and time frame.
Happy Hunting!
Miriam
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Permalink Reply by John Newmark on
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The Missouri Death Certificate database has already been mentioned, but it is part of the larger Missouri Digital Heritage that also contains many more genealogy resources.
The Jackson County, MO Department of Records is a great site for those researching the Kansas City area. They have marriage licenses online up to current day.
The local (St. Louis County) microfilm collection is extensive and has proven very useful.
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Permalink Reply by Brandy Lee Hardman on
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Does anyone know of any good sites for Alabama, Georgia, or Arizona?
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Permalink Reply by David on
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Brandy, Here's a good site for old newspaper articles from the South for Alabama and Georgia, and at the same site, there are newspaper archives from Western States, including Arizona.
Coverage is sometimes pretty comprehensive, other times, rather sporadic. But isn't that always the way it is ;-)
Good luck.
David
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Thank you very much. I will definitely try these.
Brandy
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