Saturday, May 25, 2019

Advice #9: Online research

There are more and more records and books becoming available online each day. Many are free, others are pay sites and still other pay per usage.

Ancestry, My Heritage, Find My Past: Pay sites, millions of records, books, newspapers and family trees.
FamilySearch: Free, millions of records, books and family trees.

Fold3: pay, military records
Find a Grave: free, cemetery records

Rootsweb: free, family trees

Genweb: free, search for state and county records

Archive.com: free, online copies of books

Various repositories in Great Britain and other countries have searchable databases, pay per record options and research help.

Many organizational libraries [DAR, SAR, etc.] have free searchable databases, but records are available for a fee.

National Archives: Military records and pensions, personnel records. Washington, DC [pre 20th century] and St. Louis [personnel and 20th century military]

There are numerous online pay and free sites not mentioned here.

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