Free Genealogy Search - Brigham Young University

There are free online independent study courses in genealogy offered by Brigham Young University. These courses are non-credit classes but are very helpful and educational.

Newbies just starting out will find these courses very useful. Seasoned genealogists will also find information to help them out as well.

Check out their web-site at http://ce.byu.edu/is/site/courses/freecourses.cfm

Free Genealogy Search - Gen-Gateway

Gengateway is a very interesting genealogy website with many free resources. There is an array of information to be researched on this sight.

Just a few examples include: The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, The history of Detroit and Michigan, Fredericksbury, Virginia, The History of and Students of the University of Virginia. There are many, many more to check out!

There are several free site searches that will keep you busy for hours. I find that many times some tidbit of information just from reading history will answer questions to my own genealogy questions and problems especially when trying to understand the different era's.

Take a little time and do some reading on these articles on this site, it is well worth your time and perhaps will help your family research progress. http://www.gengateway.com/

Free Genealogy Search - Pennsylvania Civil War

The Pennsylvania Civil War website is full of great information. Regimental rosters and histories, POW information and regimental death lists are just wonderful genealogy tools. This website also has diaries, letters and newspaper articles that are pretty interestering.

Information is sorted by county and regiments so searching is pretty easy. If you have any Pennsylvania ancestors that lived during the civil war period it's well worth a look! Check it out at http://www.pacivilwar.com/

Free Genealogy Forms & Worksheets

If you are trying to organize your genealogical information Lineages.com has several free forms and worksheets you can download and print out. Family group worksheets, marriage, death, census, contact info, pedigree charts, and much more.

Organization is always a key element when researching genealogy. A couple of notebooks, and some of these forms will help immensely when trying to sort through pages and pages of ancestral information.

You can check this out at Lineages.com You must have Adobe Reader in order to download these forms.

Free Genealogy Search - Distant Cousin

Distant Cousin is a website with archives of old records, many of which are scanned in.

A Variety of information awaits you at this website for several different states.

Check out this wonderful free genealogy resource at http://www.distantcousin.com/

Free Genealogy Search - Pennsylvania Genealogy

I have found the Pennsylvania Genealogy Website full of great free information on my Pennsylvania Ancestors. This website will take you to other websites but is very helpful if any of your family actually came from Pennsylvania.

There is history, census records, court records, military records, wills, newspapers articles, etc. All kinds of information that all genealogist search for but focuses on Pennsylvania genealogy.

Just lots of free Pennsylvania search information on one page. Check it out at http://www.pennsylvaniagenealogy.org/

Free Genealogy Search - Native American Nations

Native American Nations is a website dedicated to helping people in their genealogy quest who have American Indian Ancestors. It is a website full of interesting information covering several different tribes. Native American Nations provides information on rolls, treaties, history and census.

There are sections with photographs that are quite interesting. Many of the laws that were created and enforced in several US States are available to educate you.

If you do have Native American Ancestors this website has many free resources to check out at http://www.nanations.com/.

I do not have Native American ancestors, however, I did stumble across this site and found it quite interesting.