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 Howard MAthieson on January 24, 2011 at 6:59pm

I have created a free Google Earth app entitled GeoGenealogy's Gazetteer of Scotland, in effect a Gazetteer of Gazetteers it has the following features:

Scalable boundary files of the counties(32) and the parishes(891) of Scotland

Each county has links to Genuki, The Family search WIKI , Wikipedia and to the Hugh Wallis IGI Search page.

Each county has links to historic county maps including many of David Rumsey's maps of Scotland, the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland and Family Search historic Maps.

Each parish is linked to it's related Genuki, and Family Search WIKI page with its sources for census and church records

More information and a User guide can be seen at:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/geogenealogy/images/scotland-gazetteer.gif

You must have Google Earth installed on your computer (free) to use the GAzetteer

This is a "freeware" appp, there is no charge, simply my way of giving back to all those who have helped me over the years.

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Permalink Reply by William Douglas on January 27, 2011 at 5:30am

This is the link that worked for me: http://www.members.shaw.ca/geogenealogy/pages/gazeteerscotland.htm

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Permalink Reply by Co Ordinator on January 25, 2011 at 1:31am

Well done Howard

People like you are worth a million dollars and am sure what you have done will benefit quite a lot of people that use this site.

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Permalink Reply by Ellen Healy on January 25, 2011 at 11:17am

Howard, folks that can create for the computer amaze me. And you are marvelous! How wonderful and generous of you! Best of luck to you always! Thank you.

P.S. Can you do that for Ireland, too? :-)

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Permalink Reply by Howard MAthieson on January 25, 2011 at 11:23am

Unfortunately I know very little about Ireland and it's Geography in terms of administrative units.

I will give some thought

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Permalink Reply by William Douglas on January 28, 2011 at 8:06am

AddressingHistory is asking history enthusiasts to explore their ancestors and local historical connections by finding and placing historical Scottish Post Office Directory listings on the map.

Funded by JISC, the AddressingHistory website combines the listings from the Directories, historical forerunners of Yellow Pages, with maps from the same years. The site, which is free to use, allows users to search for historical people, places and professions and presents results both on a map and as an editable listing that links to the full digitised Directory page.

AddressingHistory, developed by the JISC-funded data centre EDINA at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, launches with three Edinburgh Post Office Directories from 1784-5, 1865 and 1905-6. They cover the period from the end of the Scottish Enlightenment to the running of the city’s first electric trams although, as Stuart Macdonald of the project team notes: “The online tool has been designed to be scalable to accommodate the wider range of Post Office Directories for the whole of Scotland.”

Read more at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2010/11/addressinghistory.aspx

Presumably more cities and locations will follow.