Genealogy Freebies - Genealogy Free Resources
Getting Started in Genealogy
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FREE Family Tree Online ***NEW!
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.
You can invite your parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins and other family members to contribute what they know to add to your online tree. Your family can add names, tell stories and upload photos.
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Free Genealogy Lessons
Step by step beginning instructions in genealogy research by Ancestry.com. Learn everything from starting with home sources to choosing the best federal and state sources to accomplish your research.
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Free Genealogy Lessons and Guides
Free guide by RootsWeb. Where to Begin, sources, record types, country and ethnic groups and much more.
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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.
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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.
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Genealogy Lessons
Genealogy.com offers over 80 lessons in nine sections, including beginning genealogy, tracing immigrant origins and Internet genealogy. All the lessons are written by genealogy experts
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Free Articles, Tips and More!
Find your ancestors with this free genealogy collection of articles, tips, tutorials and other educational resources. Post comments or questions. New articles added every week.
Free Trial Offers to Genealogy Databases
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Ancestry.com FREE Trial ***
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Ancestry.com US Deluxe FREE Trial
Start your family tree online and receive a free trial the Ancestry.
Complete U.S. census records, the largest collection of ship passenger lists & military records online, family trees and much more!
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Ancestry.com WorldWide Deluxe FREE Trial
Includes all of the US plus international databases. Great for ancestors from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, and more.
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Ancestry.co.uk
Free trial to Ancestry.co.uk - for those who live in the UK.
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Ancestry.com.au
Free trial to Ancestry.com.au - for those who live in Australia.
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Footnote.com FREE Trial
Partners with FamilySearch (Mormon Library) and U.S. National Archives to put original documents online.
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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.
Free Genealogy Forms and Charts
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Free Genealogy Charts
Download from Ancestry.com the professional Free genealogy charts, forms and templates you need to document your family tree.
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Fan Chart
Basic black and white fan chart by Martha Stewart.
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Census Spreadsheets
Beautiful Census Excel Spreadsheets from Census Tools to record and analyze your census data.
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Free Genealogy Forms
Free Genealogy charts including a cemetery tracking form
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Free Genealogy Charts and Forms
An enormous amount of Free Genealogy charts, forms, and checklists in PDF format from Family Tree Magazine.
Free Genealogy Software
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FamilyTreeMaker Starter Edition
Free Family Tree Maker Starter Edition Genealogy Software. Use Family Tree Maker to record and organize all of the information you collect on your family – create tree charts, reports, calendars, scrapbooks, heirloom-quality books and more! .
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Family Tree Legends
Available now FREE! Family Tree Legends is a powerful and sophisticated genealogy program designed to make it easy for you to collect, display, and organize information about your family history. Whether it’s notes, medical facts, pictures, or multimedia files, Family Tree Legends provides you with a single tool to capture every bit of information about the history of your family.
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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.
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Legacy
Free Genealogy software. Download the free standard edition of this full-featured genealogy program.
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GenoPro
GenoPro, also free, gives a pictorial representation of family relationships across several generations
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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.
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GEDxlate
GEDxlate quickly and easily translates genealogy data from standard GEDCOM format into MS Access dB (*.mdb), MS Excel Worksheet (*.xls), comma delimited (*.csv), and text file (*.txt) formats.
Free Software
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Free software from Google includes
- Google Earth - Use to find addresses of ancestors
- Picasa Photo Organizer - Use to Organize genealogy photos
- Google Desktop - Use to search computer desktop & e-mail
- Anti-virus & anti-spyware
- Much more!
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Picasa Photo Software by Google will find all the photos on your computer and organize them for you.
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Irfanview
Freeware graphic viewer. Use to view and resize graphics, or convert image type to another. Will even convert Ancestry.com's census MrSid extension to jpg or jif file.
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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.
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PrintKey
Capture a screen shot or the whole desktop with this small utility. Any image you capture can be saved as a bitmap file or edited in your favorite graphics editor such as
Irfanview (see above). Great if having difficulty printing an image from a genealogy site.
Free Genealogy Databases Online
Free Genealogy Social Network Sites
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Famillion
Build your family tree and become part of a growing social network. The software differs from other genealogy websites because its patented technology can merge and connect different family trees based on the barest of information.
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Family Link
Connect with genealogists that live in the cities of your ancestors for FREE! Partners with the Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness
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Footnote.com Story Pages
Share your ideas, opinions & discoveries with free web pages. Track your research, make an online scrapbook, and share important photos and documents with friends and family.
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Geni
Create a profile and a family tree - including siblings, spouses, cousins, aunts and uncles, and their families. When you add a relative, there is an option to add their email address and have the tree sent to them as well. They can add their own data, extending the tree, and Geni will launch tools to merge overlapping trees..
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MyFamily.com 2.0
A place to share photos and narrated photo stories with your family and friends.
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Online Family Tree
Build your free family tree online that allows you and other family members to create a free multi-user, private family tree at Ancestry.com.
Free Biography Assistants
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Biography Assistant
Biography Assistant by Genealogy.com helps you put together stories about your ancestors. It's divided into a series of questions about a person's ancestors, life experiences, medical history and military service.
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Interview Questions
Interview family members to learn about the family history, culture, and the traditions of your ancestors. Exhaustive list of interview questions.
Free Genealogy Lookups
Free Genealogy Newsletters
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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
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Genealogy Newsletters
Sign up for the latest family history news and techniques from Michael Neill, George C. Morgan and other genealogy columnists.
Free Genealogy Forums
Free Genealogy Tools & Calculators
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Free Age Calculator
Calculate present age or age at death.
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Free Tombstone Birthday Calculator
Calculate birthdate online from date of death and age at death found on tombstones, death certificates or obituaries.
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Free Perpetual Calendar
Enter any month and year to view calendar.
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Free Soundex Calculator
Calculate soundex online. Learn how soundex works including its limitations and uses.
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Free Inflation Calculator
Calculate today's monetary value for your ancestor's salary, amount left in wills, etc..
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Free Roman Numeral Convertor
Convert Roman Numerals found on tombstones and documents to numbers.
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Free Easter Calculator
Find the date for Easter for any year.
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Free Day of Week Calculator
Calculate day of week from date online.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Free Gedcom Reader
Download UncleGed free. Gedcom Reader, GEDCOM to HTML Converter and GEDCOM Cataloging Tool .
Free Genealogy Relationship Charts
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Cousin Calculator
A free online tool to calculation the family relationship between two people who share a common blood ancestor. Also contains a dictionary of cousin and relationship definitions.
Free Genealogy Form Letters
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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
Free Webhosting to build a Genealogy Webpage
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RootsWeb FreePages
Unlimited space plus your site is entered into RootsWeb's search engine. Hint: the free genealogy 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
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Online lessons to research your family ancestry and find your ancestors.
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Register your surnames and find out who else is researching the same family names.
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Genealogy software, forms, charts and templates.
Free Genealogy
Free genealogy resources: charts, lessons, software, databases, look ups, relationship charts, form letters, translation services.
Ancestry Free Trials
Free trials to Ancestry.com databases. Why pay when you can view for free?
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