Free Genealogy Websites!

Free genealogy websites! Is it really free, well maybe but unlikely. You can spend a lot of time going from one free website to another in most cases it is not free.

You go to a "free genealogy website", you read the text on the first screen. It reads: get your free genealogy searches here. Next you are typing in your search names, click on the word search and Wow! a new screen pops up and a graphic person starts talking, telling you that you must be a member in order to search. Pick which service package: Bronze at $29.95; Silver at $39.95; or our best Gold for $59.95. This is definitely not free.

Another free genealogy website will let you search a name and even show results such as:

10 results for George Washington, to see results click here. Bang! the next screen reads to view this record you must be a member. Again you are offered different prices in which to choose from. That is right it is not free. You will run across some sites that will tell you up front that you need to be a member in order to search the website. It maybe a free site but requires you to sign up, so they can keep track of those individuals who may only use the site a few times and other parties who will be repeat visitors many times.

First and foremost do as much of your research at the local level before trying for free genealogy searches online. Definitely be well prepared if you join a pay website.

Here are a few websites that are free: Interment.net you search for cemeteries and graves. SSDI Social Security Death Index, it is an interactive search, it is a part of ancestry.com but appears to be free.

I have searched the SSDI many times and every once in a while I recheck to see if my parents are listed. My mother died in 1980 and she has always been listed. My father died in 1960 and he is not and never has been listed, so know that not every deceased person with a social security number can be found at this site.

WWW.1901censusonline.com is free and it covers the countries of England and Wales.

Here is another way to search online and it will be free, go to your local library and search ancestry.com or heritage quest.com. The only way to search ancestry.com is with a membership or trial subscription, your library has all ready paid for membership so use it, especially if money is tight.

Now get a library card and you can search Heritage quest.com at home thru your library data base or you can just access heritage from your home computer by going online. I find it easier to go thru my library database.

There is a website that is called "Free Mormon LDS Genealogy", and you have tobe a member. Why join when all you have to do is go to familysearch.org andno membership required. You can register and login, I did this when they firstcame on the world wide web, but when doing my searching I just search and onlyocassionaly sign in just so I remember my password.

I found this directory of genealogy websites and I am a listed member. Their websites are cataloged by type, ex: biographies, cemeteries, colonial america, surnames and many more. Some members are free genealogy websites. Go to this page: all-genealogysites.com.

Have fun and enjoy the ride along the genealogy pathway.

Go to this page: Genealogy Message Boards.

Also looking for ancestry charts and form go to this page:ancestry charts.

Check our page on a volunteer website I found: RAOGK.

Take a look at our page: Free Family Tree Research.
Take a look at our page about clipart: Family Tree ClipArt.
Check our page: Google Information.
Check our page: Ancestry Seminar.
Check out this page: Civil War Research.
Check our page: Genealogy Websites Beware.

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