When I started researching my family tree 20 years ago, there were a lot of free family search sites available online. People used to do free lookup requests and offer assistance in genealogy forums too. Now there are a lot of resources available online in digitized forms – many you have to pay to access,…
When I first started researching my family genealogy online, FreeBMD was one of my favorite sites to try. FreeBMD offers a transcription of the GRO Index of Civil Registrations of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 1983. These indexes are being transcribed by volunteers and they are approximately 60% complete. FreeBMD: Search…
There are many free resources available online to help you find your ancestors. One of my favorites places online to search parish registers is FreeReg. FreeReg includes a large collection of transcribed Parish Registers and non-conformist registers from across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Free Transcribed Records: Search Parish Registers Online These records include baptisms, marriages…