The Best Genealogy Help Is The Help That Is Free!

After 20 years of research and limited free sites I thought I would help others out! Here are some completely free sites that you can visit. I would get so frustrated every time I did a search online for free sites and get to one there would be a catch and I would have to pay!

There are many many helpful sites out there but most of them cost to use. Who wants to pay for something that may or may not be your family. You aren't getting paid to do the research so if you are on a limited income paying for to use a site isn't a smart thing to do.

In this lens I will try and help you find the most free sites out there to help you with your family history research. I will give you links, places to go and what questions to ask. Hopefully you will find this lens helpful and you will tell someone else about it!

I found that the links to your county clerks office can be helpful. Unfortunately not all of the county clerks around the country have a free death index database. One of the counties I was researching had a database online for free that you could search the name it would give you the libre # and the book # so all you had to do when you arrived at the clerk's office was ask for that book! It was so helpful to me since I had numerous family members I was looking for.

Cemetery records are wonderful too! I found out where my ancestors were buried and then looked online for links to those cemeteries. I found quite a few that have databases of their records. They tell you where your ancestor's plots are and some even have maps of the cemetary. I found this helpful in my research and it saved me lots of time once I got to the cemetery.

If you call the cemetery the office people there can be very helpful! They researched the names I gave them and then gave me a map and showed me where I could find my ancestors!

Public library was also helpful. That is if you know the dates already! Everything they have on microfiche is wonderful! Those old newpaper articles are very helpful, as long as you know the dates! They also have old directories that are very helpful. Some I have been to even have census record books, funeral home records, cemetery records and much much more!

A lot of libraries have access to a version of Ancestry.com that is helpful also. If you type in your dates and ancestors names it will bring a lot of information up for you! Just make sure that your information is correct before you write everything down and think its your ancestor.