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The oldest, largest free genealogy site.
RootsWeb Searches
All the searchable Rootsweb databases.
Free Genealogy Software
Download FREE software that helps build your family tree faster and easier.

Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards
Over 130,000 message boards. Surnames, Geography, and Research Topics
GenForum Message Boards
Surnames, Regional and General Topics
Site Features

Quick Search
Enter your surname once, search 20 genealogy search engines.

Search Engine Strategy Make your ancestor search more productive.

Site Map
Directory of search engines

Learn Genealogy
Learn how to research your family ancestry and find your ancestors.

Share your Genealogy
Register your surnames and find out who else is researching the same family names.

Record your Genealogy Free genealogy software, forms, charts and templates.

Utilities
Perpetual Calendar, Soundex calculator, Day of Week calculator, Tombstone Birthday calculator, Cousin Calculator, More!

US Military Genealogy
How to find your roots using military records

 


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The following is a listing of all the free genealogy resources that I have found.

bullet Free Genealogy Charts
Download the professional charts, forms and templates you need to document your family tree.

bullet Ancestral Chart
bullet Census Extraction Forms
bullet Family Group Sheet
bullet Martha Stewart's Fan Chart
bullet Research Calendar
bullet Research Extract
bullet Source Summary
bullet Family Tree Template
Download a FREE template in the shape of a tree.



bullet Free Genealogy Lessons
Step by step beginning instructions in genealogy research. Learn everything from starting with home sources to choosing the best federal and state sources to accomplish your research.

bullet Free Genealogy Lessons and Guides
Free guide by RootsWeb. Where to Begin, sources, record types, country and ethnic groups and much more.

bullet Free Research Guidance
The Mormon Church offers these free genealogy research guides to help you locate genealogy records. Includes an individualized search strategy by place.

bullet Free Research Helps
The Mormon Church provides free genealogy blank forms, government publications, guides, maps, research guides, and word lists to help you with your research. Organized by place.

bullet Free Tutorial, Lessons, Articles, Tips and More!
Find your ancestors with this free genealogy collection of interactive articles, tips, lessons, tutorials and other educational resources. Unique because you can ask questions. New articles added every week.



Free Trial Offers to Genealogy Databases

bullet Ancestry 14 day Free Trial
Ancestry.com U. S. and Canada records, complete 1790 - 1930 census records, U.K. and Ireland records, and historic newspaper records

Ancestry.Com U.S. and Canada data records.
Try Ancestry.com FREE for 14 days.

bullet Ancestry.Com's Census images
Try Ancestry.com census images FREE for one week. Includes all US Federal census including the just-released 1930 US census. All census years are now online. Complete 1920 and 1930 indexes.  

bullet UK & Ireland Records
Try Ancestry's newest database 14 days for FREE! Great for ancestors from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.

  
bullet Genealogy.com Gold Membership FREE Trial
Gold Annual Membership includes Family Tree Maker software plus annual subscriptions to U.S. Census, International & Passenger Records, Genealogy Library. and World Family Tree.

bullet Genealogy.Com FREE Trial
Birth, marriage, death, military and other records, nearly 2,000 family histories and census indexes from all 50 states and actual images for a majority of the 1850 U.S. Census.

bullet Genealogy.com US Census Collection FREE Trial
Genealogy.Com Free Trial Subscription for the 1790 through 1930 Census. The only online indexes for 1870, 1890, 1900 and 1910 census.

bullet Genealogy.com International Passenger Records FREE Trial
Genealogy.com 14 Day Free Trial to the most extensive collection of international and passenger records available online. Passenger lists for all of America's major Atlantic ports, plus European, British, and Canadian records.

bullet Genealogy Library FREE Trial
Exclusive collection of family histories. Access 300 million birth, marriage, military, land, census, and death records.

bullet Family & Local Histories Collection Free Trial
More than 16,000 easily-searchable titles — and growing. Genealogical journals, local histories, and primary sources. A Genealogy.com exclusive — many of the digital images in this collection are not available anywhere else.

bullet World Family Tree FREE Trial
Over 200 million user-donated family trees at Genealogy.com.


Free Genealogy Software

bullet Ancestry Family Tree
Download FREE software that helps build your family tree quickly, easily and with greater accuracy than ever before. In addition to being a full-featured genealogy program, AFT automatically searches to find the best matches for trees and records for each person in your family tree

bullet Bygones
A computerized genealogical note-keeping system. Create an "index" of the information in your research notes, keep track of genealogical correspondence and correspondents, create time lines for your families, create to do lists of pending research tasks, enter information on sources that are important for your family history research, enter information on the localities you do research in, enter spelling variations and soundex codes for your surnames, and enter scanned maps, scanned family pictures, and scanned documents.

bullet Legacy
Free Genealogy software. Go to the Legacy home page, and follow the links for the free download.

bullet GenoPro
GenoPro, also free, gives a pictorial representation of family relationships across several generations

bullet Online Family Tree
Build your family tree online with the Internet's first real-time collaboration tool that allows you and other family members to create a multi-user, password-protected family tree.

bullet Personal Ancestral File
PAF, is available as freeware from the Family Search website. A genealogical management program that helps you organize their family history records.


Free Software

bullet Irfanview
Freeware graphic viewer. Use to view and resize graphics, or convert image type to another. Will even convert Ancestry.com's census MrSid extention to jpg or jif file.

bullet TreePad
Enjoy better access, organization and control over all your data, documents, addresses, letters, photos, research, collections, Web pages, links, bibliographic listings for good organization, easy access, and safe storage.


Free Genealogy Databases Online

bullet Ancestry World Tree
The Ancestry World Tree contains more than 160,000,000 names in family trees submitted by users. The Ancestry World Tree is the largest collection of its kind on the Internet and it's free.

bullet Ancestry Free Databases
Ancestry.Com has hundreds of ALWAYS FREE databases.

bullet Rootsweb
The oldest, largest free genealogy site.
bullet RootsWeb General Search
bullet RootsWeb Meta Search
bullet RootsWeb Surname List
bullet  US GenWeb Archives Search
bullet  World Connect Project



bullet Ancestor Search
Tons of free genealogy search engines. Your gateway to the largest and best free databases online.

bullet Family Search
The genealogy site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has vast record collections online - all free.


Free Genealogy Lookups

bullet Free Genealogy Lookups (GenLookups)
A directory of genealogy lookup volunteers organized by state.

bullet Free LookUp Forums
Post a lookup query

bullet Free Cemetery Photos
Cemetery Photos is a project designed to help people obtain photos of headstone in areas that they can’t get to themselves.

bullet Free Lookups Central
Free lookups in US states, Native American and Military books, surname books.

bullet Free Genealogy CD Lookups
Free Lookups on Family Tree Maker (Genealogy.com) CDs.

bullet Free Obituary Lookups
An all-volunteer web site and mailing list dedicated to providing obituary lookups all over the world.

bullet Genie Angels
A central place to locate a volunteer who lives in an area of interest and an 'Angel' who is willing to help you obtain a document from the courthouse, historical archives, library, newspaper article, tombstone photo, etc. Free service, pay expenses for documents only.

bullet Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness
Volunteers will videotape cemeteries or visit county courthouses or archives in their specified area.

bullet RootsWeb Books We Own
A Look-Up Resource for International Genealogical Research


Free Genealogy Newsletters

bullet Free Family History Tips, News and Updates
Timesaving advice from the most respected experts in the field. Help with starting your family history research. Links to the best free online and off-line resources

bullet Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
Get the latest family history news and techniques from Dick Eastman.


Free Genealogy Forums

bullet Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards
Over 130,000 message boards. Surnames, Geography, and Research Topics

bullet GenForum Message Boards
Surname, Regional and General Topics.


Free Genealogy Utilities

bullet Free Tombstone Birthday Calculator
Calculate birthdate online from date of death and age at death found on tombstones, death certificates or obituaries.

bullet Free Perpetual Calendar
Enter any month and year to view calendar.

bullet Free Soundex Calculator
Calculate soundex online. Learn how soundex works including its limitations and uses.

bullet Free Inflation Calculator
Calculate today's monetary value for your ancestor's salary, amount left in wills, etc..

bullet Free Day of Week Calculator
Calculate day of week from date online.

bullet Free Time Capsule
Generate a page of headlines, consumer prices, US presidents, birthdays, songs, toys, and books for a selected date between 1800 to 2001

bullet Free Time Line
Just enter the name of your ancestor with birth and death year to create a free timeline and see how your ancestor's life fits into history.

bullet GED-IT
GED-IT lets you access and analyze any online GEDCOM file. With GED-IT, there is no need to download a file to your computer. You simply go to GED-IT's Web site and tell it to display the information on another Web site. GED-IT will transfer the file to its own Web site at very high speed, then display all the information in your Web browser. You can look at pedigree charts or descendant charts or examine details on a family-by-family basis.

bullet Free Gedcom Reader
Download UncleGed free. Gedcom Reader, GEDCOM to HTML Converter and GEDCOM Cataloging Tool .

bullet Free Biography Template
Download the free LifeBio template to simplify the task of writing a biography about you or a loved one.


Free Genealogy Relationship Charts

bullet Free Genealogy Relationship Chart
A free online chart to calculate relationships.


Free Genealogy Form Letters

bullet Free Genealogy Form Letters
Free genealogy form letters for requesting genealogical information from an institution or from family members in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish


Free Genealogy Translation Services

bullet Free Translation Service
54 languages. Translations for genealogy..

bullet Free Translation Service
Free genealogy translations in Czech, English, Dutch, French, German, or Polish

bullet Free Online Translator
Online translator.


Free Webhosting to build a Genealogy Webpage

bullet RootsWeb FreePages
Unlimited space plus your site is entered into RootsWeb's search engine. Hint: the free software listed above will automatically create linked genealogy pages that you can upload to Rootsweb FreePages. These include Ancestry Family Tree (AFT), Legacy, GenoPro and Personal Ancestral File (PAF).


Free Genealogy ClipArt and Graphics

bullet Autumn's Genealogy Graphics

bullet Free-B-Kins: Free Web Graphics

bullet Glee Graphics

bullet Graphics by Chris

bullet Graphics by Shawna

bullet Graphics by Hinton Genealogy

bullet Heraldic Clipart

bullet Kelly Mouse Graphics

bullet Marvelicious Genealogy Backgrounds

bullet Timberlake Graphics

bullet Trial and Error Rural Victorian Graphics


Free Genealogy Scripts For Your Website





bullet Baptismal Records Post It Script

bullet Census Records Post It Script

bullet Death Records Post It Script

bullet City Directory Post It Script

bullet Native American Rolls Post It Script

bullet Marriage Records Post It Script

bullet Ship Passenger Records Post It Script

bullet Surname Roll Call Post It Script

bullet Social Security Death Index Post It Script

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