Ancestry.com Free Databases

1. FREE Family Tree Online Record your family history by creating a FREE family tree online. Start by entering what you know about yourself and your family. Enjoy FREE access to Ancestry.com.
   
   
2. 1880 US Census
   Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have worked together to put the transcribed 1880 U.S. Federal census online.
   
   
3. 1881 UK Census
   Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have worked together to put the 1881 UK Federal census online.
   
   • 1881 England Census
   • 1881 Wales Census
   • 1881 Channel Island Census
   • 1881 Isle of Man Census
   
   
   
4. American Biographical Library
   Contains over 75,000 full-text biographies
   
   
5. Ancestry World Tree
   Over 200 million names in family trees submitted by Ancestry users
   
   
6. Charts & Forms
   Ancestral Chart, Family Group Sheet, Census Forms, and others
   
   
7. England Census Sample 1891
   The English government took its first national census in 1801. A census has been taken every ten years since that date, except in 1941. The census sample is Oxforshire.
   
   
8. Family Facts
   Last Name Meanings, Last Name Distribution in the US & UK, the top countries of origin for each surname based on passenger lists to the US, and much more.
   
   
   • Civil War Service
   • Immigration Year
   • Life Expectancy
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   • US Name Distribution
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9. Free BMD
   England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983
   • Birth Index
   • Marriage index
   • Death index
   
   
   
10. Family Trees
    This Public member family tree database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users and available for public viewing. Many trees contain photos and stories.
    
    
11. Geographic Reference Library
    Locate nearly any town, city, county, or other populated place in the United States as well as many schools, churches, courthouses, cemeteries, or major geographic features across the United States
    
    
    
12. Learning Centers
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13. Library
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14. Message Boards
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15. Research Registry
    Over 360,000 Research Profiles from thousands of other researchers
    
    
16. WWI Civilian Draft Registrations
    Index to 24 million men in 1917/18, (98% of men present in America), born between 1873 and 1900 completed draft registration cards
    

Ancestry Free Databases Listed by Location

United States

• American Biographical Library
• Biographical Cyclopedia of U.S. Women
• Biographical Directory of the American Congress
• U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 3
• New England Irish Pioneers

Military

• Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots
• U.S. Naval Deaths, World War I
• U.S. World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1930
• WWI Civilian Draft Registrations

Alaska

• Fairbanks, Alaska Cemetery Records

Alabama




Arizona




Arkansas




California

• California Birth Index, 1905-10
• Isaac Mylar, San Juan Bautista Mission, California, 1860s

Colorado

• R.L. Polk & Co.'s Pueblo city directory, 1899-1900

Connecticut




Delaware




Florida




Georgia




Hawaii




Idaho




Illinois

• Kankakee City, Illinois Directory, 1876
• Woodford county, Illinois, Illinois Prairie District library, obituaries, 1887-2000

Indiana




Iowa




Kansas


• Kansas Post Offices, 1880
• Kansas Territorial Census, 1855

Kentucky




Louisiana

• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820 (Slave)
• Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820 (Free)

Maine




Maryland




Massachusetts

• Salem Witches

Michigan

• Iosco County, MI, Iosco County Gazette Index, 1900-10
• Iosco County, Michigan Early Land Owners, 1841-96
• Iosco County, Michigan Glass Negatives, 1892-1905: East Tawas
• Iosco County, Michigan Naturalization Index, 1885-1910
• Iosco County, Michigan Obituaries, 1978-90
• Iosco County, Michigan Paupers, 1869-1934
• Iosco County, Michigan Plat Book, 1903
• Iosco County, Michigan WWI Veterans Index
• Iosco County, Michigan, 1892-1949: Tawas Herald Obituaries
• Iosco County, Michigan, 1901-99: Esmond-Evergreen Cemetery
• Northern Michigan, Newspaper Surname Index

Minnesota

• Minnesota Divorce Index, 1970-1995
• Minnesota Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905
  

Mississippi




Missouri

• Audrain County, Missouri Draft Records, 1917
• Missouri National Guard, the Mexican Border, 1916

Montana




Nebraska




Nevada




New Hampshire




New Jersey




New Mexico




New York

• Marble Cemetery Records, New York City, New York, 1830-1937
• New York City Immigrants (Austria, Galicia, Poland), 1890
• New York City Immigrants (Austria, Galicia, Poland), 1891
• Hamilton College, New York Graduates, 1879

North Carolina

• Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Statistics, 1700s-1920

North Dakota




Ohio




Oklahoma




Oregon




Pennsylvania

• PA Immigrants, 1770- 1775
• Pennsylvania German Pioneers
• Pennsylvania Biographical Sketches, 1868
• PA Oaths of Allegiance, 1727 - 1775
• Susquehanna County, Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania, 1878 -79 tax rolls

Rhode Island




South Carolina

• Aiken County, South Carolina Cemetery Inscriptions: Graniteville
• Aiken County, South Carolina: Cemetery Records

South Dakota




Tennessee




Texas

• Ellis County, Texas World War I Veterans
• Johnson County, Texas, Cemetery Inscriptions
• Johnson County, Texas, Marriages, 1854-72

Utah

• Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah Cemetery, 1846-1999
• Utah Cemeteries
• Utah Cemetery Inventory

Vermont




Virginia

• Virginia Colonial Soldiers

Washington




West Virginia




Wisconsin

• British Influence on Wisconsin, 1763-1814

Wyoming

Australia

• Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788
• Australian Convict Index, 1788-1868
• Rebellion of 1837, Upper Canada (Ships Transporting Convicted Rebels from Rebellion of 1837 to Van Dieman's Land Australia)
• New South Wales, Australia 1828 - 1842: Bounty Immigrants List
• Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-91
• ANZAC Memorial, 1914-1918 New South Wales Branch Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, 1919.

Canada

• Ontario Canada 1871 Census Index
• Kitchener, Ontario German War Graves
• Rebellion of 1837, Upper Canada

Germany

• Baden, Germany Emigration Index
• Brandenburg, Prussia Emigration Records
• German Leaders of Yesterday and Today
• History of Prussia, Vol. 1
• History of Prussia, Vol. 2
• History of Prussia, Vol. 3
• History of Prussia, Vol. 4
• Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia
• PA German Pioneers
• Wuerttemberg, Germany Emigration Index

UK

• 1881 UK Census
• A history and lineage of descendents of a Scottish family by the name of Sinclair
• FreeBMD
• Scots-Irish