Rock County Genealogical Society's
80 FREE GENEALOGY TOOLS & OTHER FUN STUFF
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FREE Fully Indexed 1880 US Federal Census - An Incredible Tool for Chasing Down Ancestors ANYWHERE in the US at the time of the 1880 census enumeration. Search any number of fields, alone or in combination.
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FREE Fully Indexed 1881 Canadian National Census - An Incredible Tool for Chasing Down Ancestors ANYWHERE in Canada at the time of the 1881 census enumeration. Search any number of fields, alone or in combination.
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FREE Fully Indexed 1881 British Census - An Incredible Tool for Chasing Down Ancestors ANYWHERE in Great Britain at the time of the 1881 census enumeration. Search any number of fields, alone or in combination.
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FREE Automatic File Back-Up - Enjoy 2 gigbyte of free off site storage and automatic back-up of your computer by Mozy.com; never fear loss of files or photos from a hard drive crash or the theft or loss of your PC again. It's like a free bank security box for your genealogy research files.
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FREE Beginner’s Guide to Genealogy - This resource is divided into 5 short chapters that will take a beginner through the basics of genealogy research.
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FREE LDS Church Research Outline - This is a comprehensive list of record types, research resources and repositories with "How To" instructions about each research opportunity.
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FREE Used Book Search - The BEST on the net: Includes 25 million books from hundreds of online sellers and thousands of bookstores worldwide.
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Federal land conveyance records - for the Public Land States provides access to images of more than 2 million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States issued between 1820 and 1908..
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US National Parks
Service Catalog - of every soldier, sailor, regimental unit and battle of the US Civil War.
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FREE Search of Social Security Administration (SSA) - Death Master File (DMF) containing over 70 million death records: Some from as early as 1937 and almost all from 1952 to present.
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FREE Family Crests - Images of 2000 coats of arms from Ireland and around the world in GIF format.
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FREE Exploration of the Immigrant Arrival records - stored in the Ellis Island Archives.
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FREE Genealogy Charts and Forms (Prinatable from your home)
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Free Census Name Ranking Service - How Popular was your Surname in each of the US Federal Census.
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Free Gedcom to HTML Conversion tool - Turn you PC program's Family File into HTML language suitable for creating a Family Web Page.
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FREE RootsWeb Genealogy Guide - to US and Ethnic Research.
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FREE Research Guidance - from the Church; Organized by Locale.
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FREE Help - Genealogy
blank forms, government publications, guides, maps, research guides, and word lists to help you with your research. Organized by place by The Mormon Church.
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FREE Genealogical CD Look-Ups - by Volunteers.
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FREE Obituary Look-Ups - by Volunteers.
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FREE Local General Genealogical Help – Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness; Local Genealogists donating their time to help far away Family Researchers.
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FREE Book Look-Ups – Volunteers from “Books We Own". There are hundreds of volunteers and their books related to wide geography, broad time frame and many surnames.
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FREE Digital Books Online - Making of America (MOA) is a digital library from the antebellum period through reconstruction including approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. American History is an emphasis.
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FREE 1895 US Atlas - This is a state-by-state image of the US as of 1895.
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FREE Road and Aerial Maps - of the US by MapQuest.
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FREE Road and Aerial Maps - of the US by TerraServer.
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FREE Map Feature Identifier - Enter
any of 50 map features (e.g., city, cemetery, lake, stream, geyser, park, mine, etc.) and obtain feature’s full name, state, latitude, longitude and elevation.
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FREE Biography/Autobiography Template Outline – by LifeBio.com.
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FREE Correspondence Form-Letters - Genealogy Request (from Institutions & Family
Members.
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FREE Genealogical Language Translation Services - A slick, multi-language computer translation tool.
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FREE Daily Genealogical Tips and Advice Newsletter - from Ancestry.com.
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FREE 7 Day Trial of Ancestry.com - 1790 tto 1930 Census Images (mostly indexed).
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FREE 14-Day Trial of Ancestry.com - U.S
and Canadian Data Records
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FREE 14-Day Trial of Ancestry.com - U.K.
and Ireland Data Records.
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FREE Link to ABOUT.com - A comprehensive genealogy research and educational web site listings.
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FREE Genealogy Software - Download Ancestry Family Tree made by Ancestry.com for integration with its online service. Based on the same Ancestral Quest platform as Personal Ancestral File released by the Church of the Latter Day Saints, Ancestry Family Tree does all the things you expect of a genealogy program. Easy and intuitive.
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FREE PeopleSpot White & Yellow
Pages Directory search – Find surnames in any locale.
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FREE Monthly Newsletter - on Internet-based Ancestors Search Strategy. Use the following email address to send a blank email & subscribe.
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FREE Ancestry.com Databases - including WWI Draft
Registration Records, The American Biographical Library, Slave Narratives, SSDI, Ancestry Message Boards, and more than 20 Wisconsin-specific resources.
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FREE RootsWeb meta-search - of ALL databases of the oldest FREE genealogy site on the web.
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FREE Surname Researcher Identification - Find the names or email addresses of other genealogists who are researching your surname – use all the top “Researcher Identification” search engines from within a single site.
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FREE Hosting and Easy Design - Weblogs and Templates. Easily get a free web site with your name embedded; tutorials and tools for novice web builders. Ideal for posting family files and scanned photos for distant relatives to use and see.
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FREE Web Hosting at RootsWeb - Unlimited space plus your site is entered into RootsWeb's search engine. Ancestry Family Tree (AFT), Legacy, GenoPro and Personal Ancestral File (PAF) will automatically create linked genealogy pages that you can upload to RootsWeb FreePages. Anything more requires at least some knowledge of HTML code, however.
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FREE Genealogy Graphics - Images that will spruce-up web pages, scrapbooks and photo collections - these sites are FREE:
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FREE Utilities - Turn Genealogy into Family History – these sites allow you to get a flavor for the times in which you ancestors lived:
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FREE Genealogy Utilities - Little Programs and Tools for Big Jobs: