Your Favorite Free (or Low-Cost) Genealogy Resources

Tell about your favorite free or low-cost genealogy resources, online and off. Explain why it's a favorite and how it's been helpful in your research.

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Permalink Reply by Patrice Houck Schadt on July 25, 2009 at 2:31pm

Out of curiosity is your Neuhard line from Pennsylvania? I might be able to help on his line as there is quite a bit of info available on the family in Pennsylvania. It has been researched by Dennis Kastens and he has published a few books on the family. Just let me know if I can help.

Patrice Houck Schadt

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Permalink Reply by Kathie Babb-Neuhard on July 25, 2009 at 2:36pm

Thanks for assistance but this is one branch of the tree that I have gazillions on. My husband is the Neuhard and yes they are from PA and originally Germany. Someone did all that work! It is the other branches of his tree that are dead ends: Bower, Long and Anderson. But if you have any info related to those let me know. I could give you more specifics, what little I have.

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Permalink Reply by Kathleen on July 25, 2009 at 3:46pm

Miriam: Thanks for starting this forum, I have found many good ones I am going to try!

One of my favorite spot that I haven't heard mention is the Social Security Death Index. Use this http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ or just simply put in Social Security Death Index in your favorite search engine.

I use this when I want to find out a birth date, because I only have a death date or in reverse, Also It tells where they passed including the city, county, state. Not everyone is in the list. If you have a person in your tree and you are wondering if they are still with us, use this search.

Thanks again everyone for all the good ideas, it sure helps with the search!

Kathy

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Permalink Reply by Miriam Robbins Midkiff on July 25, 2009 at 4:23pm

I especially like the SSDI as well as the other databases at RootsWeb because you can put a Post-em (electronic sticky note) on the names of your relatives and ancestors...connecting you with others who are researching the same names!

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 25, 2009 at 6:50pm

Howdy Miriam! I think the work the Gals from LowCountry Africana & AfriQuest are doing is AMAZING! Both are great repositories of invaluable slave data. I am also enjoying the Digital Library of Georgia! I found 3 historical family related images in one visit!:-)

Luckie.

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Permalink Reply by Bobbi Huiting on July 25, 2009 at 9:08pm

Thank you to everybody who posted links. I will be checking out quite a few of them.

Here are a few good ones if you are doing research in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Genealogy index has an index of pre-1907 birth, marriage and death records. Some times you need to be creative with the names. I have also discovered you can put in partial names and it will give you results that start with those letters. If you are looking for Marie Hoehne, you can put in Mar Hoeh and it will give you all Mary, Marie, Martin etc. who's last name began with those letters. This helps with old spellings.

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/

Winnebago County

Click on Local History on the top
http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/

Again click on Local History
http://www.neenahlibrary.org/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wiwinne2/

Milwaukee county
http://www.linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/

Burials from Milwaukee Catholic cemeteries
http://www.cemeteries.org/genealogy.asp

Langlade County

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~antigowis/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~langlade/

http://www.antigopl.org/

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Permalink Reply by Miriam Robbins Midkiff on July 25, 2009 at 9:26pm

Thanks, Bobbi, for these links...I found some great ones for online directories for my Online City, County, and Rural Directories website!

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Permalink Reply by Bobbi Huiting on July 26, 2009 at 8:25pm

You are welcome Miriam. Thanks for putting them all in one place, it really makes things easier.

Here are a few for Outagamie County, WI.

Kaukauna, Outagamie Co.
http://www.focol.org/kahs/INDEX.htm

Appleton, Outagamie Co.
http://www.foxvalleymemory.org/texts.html

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Permalink Reply by Mary Hellman on August 3, 2009 at 7:20pm

David - your Free Genealogy Tools site looks great. I will go back to it often.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Mary

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Permalink Reply by David on August 3, 2009 at 7:31pm

Mary,

You and I are now BEST FRIENDS. Thanks so much.

David

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Permalink Reply by David on July 31, 2009 at 5:27pm

I've been inspired by this whole thread, and created a site of Free Genealogy Tools. I'm starting with the ones I use myself and know best. But I certainly plan to include some of great resources that folks have listed here.

I'd love to hear your thoughts about the site, and suggestions for other resources to add.

Thanks, all.

David

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Permalink Reply by James D. (Jack) Quinn on January 22, 2010 at 12:01am

I just signed up for this site a few days ago, so I am way behind most of you. However, here is a site that I have found very useful in researching death and marriage records for ancestors from New York City. It is the Italian Genealogy Group - but don't be mislead by the name - all of my ancestors were Irish. I have volunteered to do transcriptions for this group on a couple of occasions.

http://www.italiangen.org/