Free Genealogy Resource: Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America is a constantly growing website that is loaded with free genealogy resources. It is also FREE! 

It links lots of libraries, archives and museums from all over the U.S. They contribute digitized items such as photographs, posters, and newspapers. It has links to the actual images of the items. It isn't just another index. This is the real deal! A great resource.

Be sure you check DPLA out! 

Legacy Family Tree program is currently my program of choice for keeping my family tree organized. I started with the free version then moved on to the deluxe version after I had played with it for a while. I had tried several other programs to keep my tree in prior to finding Legacy. 

There standard version is FREE. Can't get better than that right! Try it out now! 





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Free Genealogy Resources

Looking for free places to search for your ancestors? Here is a list of Free Sites to help you on your quest to find your ancestors.

CyndisList.com - here you will find links to family history news and genealogy research

FamilyTreeMagazine.com - lots of tips for record searches, information about ancestory, free info 

FindAGrave.com - this is a search index of graves by date or location

LibertyEllisFoundation.org - this is a database of over 51 million passenger records

AccessGenealogy - has a large collection of genealogy records


FamilySearch.org - this website is maintained by the Mormon church. It has a multitude of information from birth, death and marriage certs from various countries.


RootsWeb -  I have definitely spent a number of hours on this site. It is one of the larges free resources for genealogy information on the internet. 

USGenWeb - They have records for every state. They have census records, wills and cemetery transcriptions. 

International Genealogical Index aka IGI - has birth, death, and marriage records from North America and the UK

Interment.net - This site offers burial records from cemeteries from around the world. 






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