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Question: Besides ancestory.com where can i use a free poplular site similar to it?
Question: Help with genealogy?
Question: Have you tried Ancestry.com and used their paid service? Was it worthwhile?

Question: Besides ancestory.com where can i use a free poplular site similar to it?

Posted: 24 Dec 2015 03:28 PM PST

Ancestry.com makes their money by paying people to transcribe tons of data. They then sell access to it. They have no free rivals. If the omelet fairy delivered free breakfasts to everyone every morning, would Denny's stay in business? If there was a web site just like Ancestry, but free, would Ancestry stay in business?

www.familysearch.org, www.Rootsweb,org, US GenWeb, GenForum and the free parts of Ancestry are the biggest and widest (i.e., cover the most states) free sites on the web, but there are 400,000+ free sites.

Preble County is a rare gem and the standard by which I judge all other county libraries. Most of them wish they had the funds and/or volunteers to do likewise.

Here it is:

http://www.pcdl.lib.oh.us/marriage/searc...

Don't let "marriage" in the URL fool you. They have Family Bibles, Birth certificates, Cemetery records, Census entries., Church records (members, birth, baptism, christening, death, burial), Court cases (civil or criminal), Death records, Directory entries (city, county, telephone), Estate settlement records, Estate receipts, Guardianship orders, Maps (including plat maps), Marriage records, Military records (including DAR file), Minute books & ledgers, Newspaper articles, Obituaries, School records, and Wills, and they are all free. Most of them are images of the original records, too, so there is no possibility of transcription errors. Your ancestors can still be mistaken, though.

There is one little catch - it is only for Preble County, Ohio, and, except for the obits, most of the records are pre-1900. If your ancestors were in Preble County, Ohio, you will be so happy you'll be dancing across the room screaming "Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!" so loud that the neighbors will think I came for dinner and brought the wine.

If not, this site will be totally worthless, and you'll be crying bitter tears into your pillow tonight, asking the Lord why your ancestors didn't settle in Preble County.

If you give us a time frame and a county, we may be able to help.

My point is that there ARE free genealogy sites out there; they vary by town, county, state, (shire, in the UK) and country. Also by the years you are interested in.

Poke around. Use Google for "[Birth | Marriage | Death] records {county} {state}" or "Genealogy {county} {State}. Post a specific question here (Does anyone know of a good site for births in Deaf Smith County, Texas before 1924?).

This may help:
http://www.tedpack.org/yagenlinks.html

I wrote it for Y!A genealogy users. It has links to 11 huge free sites, and tips on how to use them.

Explore. Have fun!

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Posted: 24 Dec 2015 02:04 PM PST

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Was  it worthwhile?</a>  </p>  <p style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;">  <span>Posted:</span> 23 Dec 2015 11:17 PM PST</p>  <div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div id="">Depends on what you think "worthwhile" is.<p>It is a help, like any other website one small tool to use from a very large tool box. Don't believe their TV adverts they can not and do not find all your ancestry, I am not sure how they get away with their blatant advertising misinformation, they simply do not have enough real records to do that and no one website does, in fact if you pit every single website together in the World you still couldn't research your ancestry and prove it as MOST records are not online.</p><p>I find it useful to quickly identify where I can find "potential" ancestors I am searching for then research/find the real records from the information then go and research them in the records office, church........ the newspapers are useful, as is the census ( and they are real records as it shows the image) however I would never pay t use it, a visit to the local library where you can use their library addition as and when you want for free, which is exactly what you could do to see what you think yourself.</p><p>....and if you are just starting do NOT do that online, start at home and do your foundation research all free as you have everything at home you need to do that <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffamilytimeline.webs.com%2Frecordsinyourownhome.htm" rel="nofollow" class="Clr-b">http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsin...</a></p></div><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1" /></div>  </td>  </tr>  </table>  <table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%" id="footer">  <tr>  <td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">You are subscribed to email updates from <a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=list&amp;sid=396546034&amp;tab=recent">Arts & Humanities: Genealogy</a>.<br />To stop receiving these emails, you may <a href="https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=_JcHYZ-xY8u9knXR0FfjnMUD0sQ">unsubscribe now</a>.</td>  <td style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top">Email delivery powered by Google</td>  </tr>  <tr>  <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;">Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States</td>  </tr>  </table>  </div>  
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