free genealogical website with no hidden fees access to public,census,vital,marriage,tax,death,court?

Question

iam looking for a way to access free public information with out filling out ton's of info only to find out when you are finish there is a fee involved. can anyone steer me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there aren't any. I paid to join Genes Re-united and discovered there were further costs involved. Which country do you live in?

Answer 2

Hey Hard to Find,

Here are some good sites, best at the top. Even the fee sites sometimes give away information to lure you in. Take what you get from them to use in another engine.

Family Search.com - Free until you buy a CD, and they are cheap

GENFORUM - free to talk to people, see what they have, post your own comments - specific to surnames, countries, and more. Great site

Ellis Island - sign up, FREE - until you buy a record. But the information is FREE, Ships manifests, transcribed, awesome

Below that are some good sites.

You might want to have a software package that gives you a few months free at a GENEALOGY.com or ANCESTRY.com site. Plan it so you have time, suck all the information you can off those sites, then shut them off. I still have hundreds of family trees from my free time there. Family Tree Maker comes with this access, and probably so does rootsmagic.

There are many more free sites! It is when you order a printed record that the get expensive. More specific sites, like for Scotland, Scotlandspeople.com is outstanding. UK has a FREEBMD site too.

There are too many of these sites to just put them here. When you need something, just ask - lots of Top Contributors and up and coming Top Contributors here want to help you.

Answer 3

1) Talk to your family members and write down full names; birth, marriage, and death dates; and location information.

2) Focus on one name/family at a time and research online. Some of my favorite free sites are:

[Huge LDS Database] http://www.familysearch.org
[For English research] http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
[Social Security Death Index] http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
[Western States Marriages] http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm

Browse the message boards on ancestry.com and genealogy.com and even do searches on Yahoo or Google with your more unusual names in quotes (e.g., “Ebenezer Beetlejuice”). You will be surprised what you find!

3) Visit your library and ask them if they subscribe to ancestry.com or heritagequest.com and also visit a NARA (http://www.archives.gov/) office if you have one close by. You largest and most valuable source of information will be censuses.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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