FREE genealogy websites

[annie]

Some I've looked at, from Family Tree Magazine:

www.familytreecircles.com
You can post your research journal here and connect up with other researchers. Can also browse other journals.

www.gazetteer.co.uk
exhaustive place-name index for the UK

www.maphistory.info
1000's of links to old-map sites to help trace ancestor's whereabouts.

www.eogen.com
The Encyclopedia of Genealogy site. Answers to genealogy reference and how-to questions. Created by Dick Eastman.

www.vitalrecordsus.com
guides to vital records

history.ky.gov
click on research, then research databases to get to their list of gravestones (200,000) and 3,000-plus cemetery records. Continually growing!

Maybe this will help someone. :D

[GirlColumbo]

Hey Thanks Annie, gotta check these sites out

[annie]

Any luck GirlColumbo?
I just made a MAJOR breakthrough on one of my 'branches'!

I've always recommended www.rootsweb.com and its Message Boards plus Kentucky GenWeb.

Anyone else know of some free sites to search?

[lbt1964]

Hello Annie,
I have a few sites that are free and pretty good sites, one is http://www.ability.org.uk/genealogy_surnames.html this one links to a bunch of free sites, and another one is http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/genealogy_tracing_roots_/ this one also links you to a bunch of free ones. Ihae more if you would like them, also hae one on indians sites. Hope these help out.
Lynn

[annie]

Yes, please post any sites you think might be helpful. I know I have Native American roots and need all the help I can get!

[lbt1964]

Here are a couple more that are pretty good sites. http://www.allthingscherokee.com/, and http://www.findagrave.com/index.html , are you the one that used to be manager of Long John Silvers?

[lbt1964]

here is another good one. http://www.genhomepage.com/

[annieap]

I have a complete collection of Kentucky Vitals and am willing to do lookups.
Here are the materials I have:

Birth records for 1911-1960
Death records for 1900-1999
Marriage records for 1973-1999

If anyone would like to request a lookup from these resources, please e-mail me.

[kdown]

Try the Morman' site

http://www.familysearch.org/

[lbt1964]

That is a good site also, I use it alot.

[kdown]

Yep, it provides great flexibilty in searching and it's FREE.
Also, it is my understanding that no one has more records then the Mormon church

[lbt1964]

The best part being FREE, There is not much in this life free anymore

[GirlColumbo]

Hey everone, those are some great sites posted. I like the Morman Site Kdown and I use rootsweb alot. I find lots of interesting information on the message boards. I have found just my ancestors on my dads side all the way back to the 1700 on rootsweb, plus Darrell Warner has a great site full of info on the bath county website, just google in bath county genealogy and his name will come up. it is not just for bath countians, lots of other counties on the site as well plus gads of great info to help in research.

[marymw]

I've pretty much tried all of these websites. I guess my great great grandfather didn't die in Kentucky. If anyone has any suggestions on finding where he is buried (his name was Jones Washington Tolliver) please please let me know.

[kileyrowland74]

I search surnames throught the Forum Finder box, and I was able to trace one branch of my family all the way back to Hannibal via someone I met in this forum!:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/

Kentucky Genforum:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/ky/

Ohio Genforum:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/oh/

German Genforums:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-genforum/finder.cgi?find=Germany

Irish Genforums:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/irish/

Dutch Genforums (for the surname "Dutch" and the Dutch American history):
http://genforum.genealogy.com/dutch/

Kentuckiana Digital Library Resources at U.K.:
http://kdl.kyvl.org/

[kdown]

There was a Jones Tolliver on the 1900 census in Shepardsville, Bullitt County KY. His wife's name was Anna

[kileyrowland74]

marymw - I know you have probably already done this, but did you check the SSDI, or some of the Ohio genealogy forums? I know a lot of Tollivers moved into southeastern Ohio.