Re: Free Data Sources?


"Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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

Hello Hugh,
I didn't know one could access Ancestry.com at their local
public library...aren't they fee/subscription-based?
~mousepotato~


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