Everyone enjoyed the prompting of Judy Russell
at our March 11th meeting about Family Trees and Memories to think about our ancestors. Her presentation were made in such an informative and professional way, that I know of several people who
are now following through on the search for their histories. It was fascinating to learn the proper ways to “explore” and
at the same time, we really enjoyed hearing and sharing stories about our own families.
Judy has provided
the following list of good websites to continue our research.
A major site
with 1.000s of sites, sorted by category is Cyndi's list at http://www.cyndislist.com/
FREE www.familysearch.com Mormon Church site. Everything
is free, including the1880 complete Census.
European Church records are sometimes very
good. You can download PAF, a very good genealogical software program in
which to record your data, for FREE . Also FREE is the Social Security Death
Index (SSDI) in which you might find the names of those who died in the 1900s
and 2000s.
FREE http://www.familytreemagazine.com/101bestwebsites08/
Every year this magazine lists 100 best sites, with links to the sites.
(so you might try changing the 08 to 07, etc)
FREE www.rootsweb.com all free, look especially at the Family
trees for clues to your family, also
has Social Security Death Index
(SSDI), fairly up to date. Click on FAMILY TREES and you might
be lucky and find your family submitted by someone else.
FREE www.google.com search on family names, in books.
Use
quotes around entire name "John
Smith" add qualifiers, such as
county name, city name, etc. Also
try GOOGLE BOOKS ....go to
google, click on MORE, click on BOOKS, and enter your family
name or place.
www.ancestry.com if you get serious, it has all Censuses with indices.
Starting with 1850, every name is indexed. 1880
is free. 1890 was
destroyed by fire. Ancestry is available
free at the Library. You can
get a free two week trial subscription at home. You
can pay and subscribe by
the month.
www.heritagequest.com can't go there directly, have to go through
Athens/Clarke library, click on Galileo, click on log in through
library, then find Heritage Quest in list of DATABASES.
Revolutionary Pensions,
hundreds of family books, free Census material.
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Judith F. Russell,
Ph.D. and Gregory L. Crane, Captain, USCG, Retired "Ask Granny"C Free Genealogical Materials for Senior Citizens www.askgranny.us ask.granny.us@gmail.com
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