My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!!   Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing : 1) Last week we defined our top 5 or 10 fee-based genealogy websites.  This week, let's define our Top 10 Free Genealogy Websites! 2)  List your Top 10 (or 20 if you want!) FREE based genealogy sites, and a short reason for listing them. 3)  Share your list on your own blog, in a comment on this post, or on Facebook.  Please leave a link to your list wherever it is. Here's my Top 10: 1.    FamilySearch ( https://familysearch.org ). There are so many images of original records available on FamilySearch that cover most counties in all 50 states, as well as Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. I have found such records as births, baptism, marriages, deaths, burial, deeds, tax records, probate, and court records from the U.S., Canada, Germany, England, and...

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!   Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for tonight. Our mission, should we decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1)   What are your "Favorite" genealogy websites?  What ones do you have in your web browser "Bookmarks" or "Favorites" bar or listing? 2)  Please list them in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link to your work in a comment on this post. Here’s mine: I probably use the following websites for genealogy research at least every day : Ancestry.com FamilySearch: mostly the catalog and the wiki Google.com (keyword search, images, translate, maps, books) More often, I use: The Portal to Texas History, mostly the newspaper images Newspapers.com GenealogyBank.com Chronicling America FindAGrave Depending on what I’m trying to research, I’ll use the following:...