Re: Free Data Sources?

Nicholas Shanks wrote:

Hi there. I was wondering if anyone has compiled a list of free websites, software, old census databases etc that I could use in my research. I'm just starting out and cannot afford to pay for subscription sites, microfilm etc. so it all has to be free!

My mother's side is all from Hungary and quite well documented, my father's is Scottish, but he was adopted and little is known of his father (a WW2 Canadian, stationed here).

As you may have guessed from my previous post, I'm a Mac user, so anything that requires Windows is gonna be pretty useless to me.

- Nicholas.

start with rootsweb.com and explore noticeboards and lists

there is a world wide community of volunteers who help each other do "shoe string genealogy"

I can't affor any subscriptiuons for a few more months so I go to a public librarywhen I need ancestry.com

I just recieved 20 photos of danish church book pges made for me on Friday in Copenhagen after I enquired on behalf of a friend in Phoenix Arizona


recently I did the same with a Birmingham England coroners report and sent the results to Canada

make yourself useful
be helpful and share all you have

we also use chat rooms
this afternoon I was sharing their morning coffee with some US east coast folks in an AOL chat room

another important resource is familysearch.com

Hugh W
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