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    101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree: Genealogy Tips, #1
    101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree: Genealogy Tips, #1
    101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree: Genealogy Tips, #1
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    101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree: Genealogy Tips, #1

    By Nancy Hendrickson

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    Free Family Tree Resources
    All links revised and updated September 2015

    Instead of spending hours searching the Internet for free genealogy websites, use this guide to shortcut your search. 

    Use the Same Sites as an Internet Genealogy Expert
    This guide contains 101 of the best websites for free genealogy. This One-Hour Genealogist guide was researched, tested and compiled by foremost Internet genealogy expert, Nancy Hendrickson. Using her years of online experience, Nancy has put together her favorite and most-used free sites. Each of the first 50 sites include an Overview, of the site an explanation of Why This Site, and a suggested Search Strategy. 

    How The Guide is Organized
    Sites are grouped by:

    military 
    social history 
    immigration 
    databases 
    odds 'n ends

    This guide contains links to free databases or great statewide information for each of the 50 states n addition to Nancy's "favorite 50" sites. And, because some sites are just too good to be left out, you'll find another 10 (bringing the total to 111) that Nancy couldn't do without in her own research.

    Don't Waste Your Precious Research Time
    Can you find all of these sites on your own without this guide? Absolutely! But why spend YOUR time finding free sites when you could be finding ancestors!

    *Dear U.K. genealogy friends, this guide is for United States researchers only.

    About the Author
    Nancy Hendrickson is the author of the Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com, Discover Your Family History Online, The Genealogist's U.S. History Pocket Reference, San Diego Then and Now, and Historic Photos of Old California. She is a life-long genealogy researcher and the creator of the One-Hour Genealogist Series. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Pony Press, Inc.
    Release dateAug 27, 2015
    ISBN9781516323319
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      101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree - Nancy Hendrickson

      Legal Notice

      The publisher and author have attempted to be as accurate as possible in the creation of this book. The content is  as accurate as possible at the time of publication.  **If you find errors, please notify the author.

      About the Author

      Nancy Hendrickson is the author of more than a dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles. She is also a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine and has developed several courses for Family Tree University.  

      Books in Print

      The Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com

      The Genealogist's U.S. History Pocket Reference: Quick Facts & Timelines of American History to Help Understand Your Ancestors

      Discover Your Family History Online

      San Diego Then and Now

      Historic Photos of Old California

      Remembering Old California

      Genealogy At A Glance: Civil War Genealogy Research

      Short Genealogy Guides

      101 Of The Best Free Websites For Climbing Your Family Tree

      Cemetery Research on the Internet

      How to Find Your Civil War Ancestor

      Family Tree Case Study

      How to Use Maps in Genealogy

      Thank you for your help

      If you found this guide useful or if you discovered some previously unknown site that unlocks a door, please take a few moments to leave a review

      Nancy

      P.S. Have you picked up your free copy of my ebook: 21 Ideas for Your Blog, Book or Scrapbook?  It’s all about ways to preserve your family history. You can get it at http://ancestornews.com

      Nancy Hendrickson

      http://ancestornews.com

      San Diego, California

      email me: mailto:genealogyteach@gmail.com

      Twitter: http://twitter.com/genealogyteach

      Introduction

      I’ve been ancestor-hunting since I was about 8-years-old.

      Back then, I didn’t know anything about GEDCOMs, pedigree charts, census data or compiling sources.  But what I did know was I had an insatiable curiosity about the people who came before me - - thanks, in part, to the family stories spun by both my grandmothers.

      One of them regaled me with tales of her own grandfather - a Civil War veteran of the Battle of Shiloh, while the other captivated me with stories of Indians in the wild frontier of Missouri. More importantly, both of them started

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