Search for My Ancestors and Surnames

Considering a membership in one of the major subscription sites?  Try a free search before you join to see if  your ancestors and your surnames are in their databases.  Each of these sites' data is completely different, so be sure to try all the searches.  

Bookmark this page to do FREE searches anytime!   New data on these sites is added regularly.

  

  
Footnote.com

 

 Footnote.com has images of original records online for their subscribers
as well as member-contributed records and free records

Footnote.com

  • Revolutionary War Records
  • Civil War Records
  • Naturalization Records
  • and More...

First Name

Last Name

A new site with images of the actual records being digitized in conjunction with the National Archives and with   Allen County Public Library (ACPL), the largest public genealogy library in the United States. Footnote is digitizing millions of unique American and International records and making them available online for the first time

 

 

 

Ancestry.com 

Try it now--as many times as you want! See what is offered!   There is a variety of collections of genealogy data including family trees, billions of names in vital records, census images online, family histories, historical newspapers, and passenger and immigration records

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LAST NAME

LOCALITY
 

FREE Resources on Ancestry.com

Start Your Family Tree to Connect with Researchers on Ancestry.com -- FREE

Free Databases on Ancestry.com
Check out almost 300 FREE databases on Ancestry.com

New at Ancestry, you can connect with other researchers by building your FREE family tree online.  Their software will automatically search for connections to your ancestors.   Begin building your tree below!

World Vital Records

Check out this new site!  This one will grow quickly, so check it often.

Search For Your Ancestors:
Given Name:
  Family Name:
WorldVitalRecords.com

  

Genealogy Today

Perform a free search of Genealogy Today to see if your surnames are included in their growing database with a wide variety of genealogy data. 
  

Genealogy Today

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My Trees.com

Billion of names on Kindred Konnections, Social Security Death Index--Free, Cornwall Census, and family trees.  Search the site for free--see if your ancestors are included before you subscribe, 10-day, monthly and annual subscriptions available

Find Self-Published
Family Histories

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Check to see if yours are included in the family histories available here.

One Great Family

Submit your family tree and it is automatically checked with family trees from other members.  You can collaborate with people around the world who are working on your family tree.  Automatically grow your family tree and see the detailed information on each person who is added to your tree.  Try a FREE Search to see if your ancestors are already on One Great Family

OneGreatFamily.com - Search MILLIONS of names

Individual
  
First Name Last Name

For females, use maiden name
(last name before marriage)
find family
Father
  
First Name Last Name
 
Mother
  
First Name Last Name
Visit OneGreatFamily.com

Origins.net

Origins has information about ancestors who lived in or had connections with England. This information is not available anywhere else on the Internet. Datasets currently online contain over one million names covering 1568 to 1850.

The Origins Network Search 1841 England and Wales Census
trace your origins
Last name  First name 

Perform  FREE ancestor search of each of the major genealogy subscription services to find your ancestors.  Searches from this page are totally free, so try them as many times as you want to see if you want to subscribe to these services..  It is suggested that you try this FREE genealogy search even if you have done so previously since all these services add new information regularly!

Sites to visit:

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