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Irish Genealogy Free
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
Genealogy/ancestry help in the Us and abroad?
I have been doing everything i know of to look up and trace my ancestors. however, i do not have a credit card that i want to out online and all these sites eventually lead me to a “well known ancestry web site” i am sure you all know who, who will give a free trial if i out my card and i do not want to. anyone know where i can go to find and see these things without having to pay or how i can bypass putting a credit card online. i am looking for family from the mid west and east. German/ Irish here in the us and from their home countries.
There are many websites which you can get the information from, Ancestry buys a lot of their databases from the National Archives, family history societies as well as transcribing their own..they also have a lot of donated unverified records/trees…you pay for convenience of lots of databases in one place but it costs them money to buy then r pay people to transcribe…….whatever website you go on free or fee get to know your information and where it comes from, only use cited information, not cited is guesswork ( and there is lots of that)
For example he UK National Archives has lots of their records online, you can see parts of many records and just purchase credits at the quantity you want,when you want, not a monthly fee to get the whole record and this is then open to you in the future as you have paid an there are many websites that use this credit system…….the difference with using the National Archives is you now what you are viewing is correct cited record as they don’t buy or allow donated information/ trees to be added, so the information is clear, not a mixture.
Familysearch is free however use the IGI ( collection of parish records and donated information from worldwide) with care, check for records numbers and if it is a donated record then use the information to look for the real record yourself ( and many of these donated records don’t exist in reality)
My advice would be to search online for the particular are you are looking for ancestors in what family history societies are in those areas, a one off very cheap annual membership fee will allow you to see their records, access to others who are looking for local ancestors and sometimes the same ones as yourself, join the free forum groups for names and/or places you are looking rootsweb have worldwide ones as well as Genweb and others…….you are looking for migration so there are lots of passenger lists online free and fee and this website has lots of good links for Ireland/UK records and where to get them or search for them…….http://familytimeline.webs.com/recordsinyourownhome.htm so well worth a read
Ireland September 2009
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