I think most of us want to crusade out where our family came from and we would like to do it preferably, for free. You can see those sites listed on my website as a wealth of data about where to go to crusade out and grow your own family tree. Free family resources is what most habitancy are seeing for since your most primary commodity - time - is already being used for this hobby or passion.
These amazing resourceful websites offer data such as The Great Migration of immigrants to New England in the early 1600s, and the full text of New England Historical and Genealogical Register which offers thousands of genealogies from the 1847 forward. Some offer archives from every state. One of these sites has a goal to transcribe all United States census records from 1790 to 1930 and upload these with photo images to the web.
One other site has a goal of uploading gravestone inscriptions over the country to the internet. How remarkable that would be. One social archives offers naturalization and probate records together with orphans-court cases, slave records and Civil War records One Florida site offers a database of 14,000 pension applications given to veterans and widows beginning in 1885. Are you drooling yet? Some sites offer a hard copy for a small fee so that you may file this document at home in your personal family history crusade file.
A Georgia University is taking Confederate pension records and digitizing them and uploading those images on their site. They've arranged these images by their county and you can crusade this data by entering the name of the widow or veteran. You can even download these documents to print them on your computer. Illinois offers a database containing names of veterans of Illinois in the following wars: War of 1812, Winnebago War, Black Hawk War, Mexican War, Civil War and the Spanish-American War. That should give you abundance to begin digging to find your free family history.
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