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This Tool Makes it Easier Than Ever to Find Free Genealogy Research Sites

This post is outdated, doGenealogy has been discontinued. Please see our free genealogy section for help with resources. Over the last couple of years, Family History Daily has published numerous articles about where and how to locate free genealogy resources. And now, we’ve created a tool that makes finding these free family history research sites …

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Access Paid Genealogy Databases for Free With This Simple Trick

Looking for a totally free way to access a variety of paid genealogy records, like those provided by Ancestry or MyHeritage, from your own computer? Well there’s good news, you most likely can. And you might be surprised to hear that the solution is probably only a few clicks away. An increasing number of libraries are now providing …

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Explore the Past With These 3 Free Newspaper Archives

Whether you’re looking for an elusive obituary or a family scandal, free newspaper archives are an excellent resource for filling out your family tree. In fact, many online archives make it so easy to search decades of ‘dusty’ old papers, you might find that it’s awfully easy to lose yourself in the past. We’ve gathered together a …

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10 Common 19th Century Occupations That You’re Not Likely to See Today

Occupations are one of the most coveted gems of genealogy research — they give us a glimpse in to the daily lives of our ancestors in a way that few other raw details can. But if you’ve spent some time digging through old records you’ve probably come across jobs that you have never heard of, most likely because …

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Michigan Farm Life in the Great Depression, Part One

By Susan Wallin Mosey Excerpts from the childhood of my mother-in-law, Donna Garver Mosey, in her own words: I was the seventh born of fifteen children. (The fifteenth one, William, had a bad heart and lived only a few days.) I was born at home, as we all were. When a new baby was about …

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Google Image Search for Genealogy: How to Use Your Family Photos to Expand Your Research

Do you have an old family photo you can’t identify? Are you unsure of the time period or place a photo was taken in? Perhaps you want to connect with others who are researching a specific ancestor you have an image of? If so, Google Image Search offers a unique way to explore your family …

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15 Genealogy Quotes We Love

Here are 15 of our favorite quotes about family history. We hope you enjoy them! 1. Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. If you are lucky enough to …

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Genealogy Books: 7 Top Family History Reads to Inform and Inspire

Genealogy reference books have long been a valuable part of family history research. Providing help and how-to on a huge range of topics, the best selections will take any genealogist on a journey of discovery. But with an ever-growing assortment of online reference information for family historians it is easy to overlook the many fascinating …

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From Yorkshire to America

Mosey, my married name, is an unusual American surname, with no obvious ethnic origin. But I have learned that it’s English in origin—Yorkshire, to be specific. My husband’s great-grandfather Robert Mosey was one of his “gateway ancestors”—an ancestor who came from elsewhere to settle in America. Robert Mosey (1821-1884) was born in Bishop Wilton, a …

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8 Helpful & Fun Family History Articles That You May Have Missed

Here at Family History Daily we’re always working hard to provide you with tips, new ideas and resources to aid you in your genealogy research. Here’s a quick list of 8 helpful and fun articles we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss. Enjoy! [bullet_list icon=”star” ] 6 Excellent Genealogy Research Sites That Don’t Cost a …

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