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Genealogy does not have to be expensive.

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Below is from GenealogyTV by Connie Knox

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Here are 44 Websites for Free Family History Research and Education.  

Best Free Genealogy Education on YouTube

  1. Genealogy TV by Connie Knox 

  2. Family History Fanatics 

  3. Aimee Cross Genealogy Hints 

  4. Geneavlogger by Jarrett Ross 

  5. Amy Johnson Crow 

  6. Lisa Louise Cook Genealogy Gems 

Building Family Trees for Free

  1. FamilySearch 

  2. Build a Tree for Free on Ancestry with a Guest Account. 

  3. Ancestry.com has Free Research Guides

  4. Rootsweb

  5. Getting Started Guides at NARA

  6. JewishGen 

  7. MyHeritage.com  (my affiliate link, click on tree tab to start a free tree)

  8. Geni.com (MyHeritage Co., Free button on upper right)

  9. FindMyPast (Free Research Guides)

  10. FindMyPast Free Records 

  11. Gedmatch (Free and paid DNA database)

  12. Search Angels - Helps those looking for their biological family.

  13. Ancestry Message Boards 

  14. USGenWeb

  15. Facebook Groups (How to create a FB Group)

Databases

22.Social Security Death Index on Ancestry
23. FamilySearch 
24. Ellis Island Foundation
25. Dead Fred (Photo database) 

Graves Online

  1. Find A Grave 

  2. Billion Graves 

  3. Cemetery Census

Military

28. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors (National Parks Service)
29. Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Research System (PRS)
30. Daughters of the American Revolution (searchable database)

Newspapers

  1. Obituary Daily Times 

  2. Chronicling America 

  3. Fulton History (Has Newspapers)

Searching for Information

  1. Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)

  2. WikiTree 

  3. Digital Public Library of America

  4. Library of Congress

  5. National Archives and Records Administration 

  6. Allen County Public Library

Land Records

40. Bureau of Land Management

African American Research

  1. Freedmen’s Bureau Records

United Kingdom

  1. FreeReg (Free Internet searches for baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been extracted from parish registers)

More Resources for Free Websites (Lists of Lists)

  1. Family Tree Magazine (Included Country Specific websites)

  2. Cyndi’s List 

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