Secrets to Free Genealogy Toolkit
A 30-part collection of cheat sheets, worksheets and planners pointing you to the genealogy records you can search without paying a cent.
Most of us start family history research by buying a subscription, and most of us find out later how much was free the whole time. Entire national archives, millions of parish registers, two centuries of newspapers and volunteer transcriptions of county records are all sitting there at no cost. This toolkit gathers them in one place and shows you how to work them.
What's inside:
- The free sites worth learning first.Β With the catalog and browse techniques that reach the records a name search will never find.
- United States research. National record sites, immigration and passenger lists, military records, and the state archives and digital collections for all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
- Research tied to your community. Free sources for African American, Native American, Jewish, Hispanic and Asian American family history.
- Research beyond the United States. Canada, the British Isles, Germany and Poland, Scandinavia, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
- Records by type. Free newspapers, family history books, cemetery and burial records, and photograph archives.
- Search strategy. Google techniques for finding records no genealogy site has indexed, and how to reach paid databases free through your library.
- Fillable worksheets. The Free Record Finder planner, a site search tracker, a record lookup request worksheet, a name variations worksheet and a research session planner.
Every sheet is fillable, so you can type straight into it and save your work, or print it and write by hand. Every link is clickable.
One purchase, no subscription.
This is an independent Family History Daily product and is not affiliated with any of the websites it covers. Everything listed is free to search, though a few sites ask you to register at no charge.
