When researching our family history we try to find the best programs to suite our needs. Sometimes that turns out to be a little difficult at first. But through trial and error we succeed...sometimes. One person has taken all the trial and error and made it a lot easier for us by listing them on his website. He then had other people review these programs too.
Don't forget to take into consideration that everyone has different opinions about things. And we all might need different programs to make our research work for us. But with these reviews at your fingertips it is so much easier to choose.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Free Sites For Genealogy
Most of our sites here on Frugal Genealogy are going to be free sites to use for genealogy. If it is a paid site it is there only because you will be able to search the site and get a little information for free.
Pixlr: The most recent site we found was a photo editing site called Pixlr. This site you can scan those old negatives you have and then switch them to a photo to use digitized or to print out all for free. You don't even have to download any software to use this as it is used right from the site itself. This is also great for some of us who collect vintage photos from flea markets and garage sales. Some only have the negative or tins for sale. So this will be a great program to use to bring these back to life. Maybe with your help some may even find their way back home where they belong.
Newspapers: If you look on the right hand side of our site here you will see a link for Newspapers. These are free sites to look up newspapers that are digitized online. You can find obituaries, wedding announcements, birth announcements and just any kind of news. Most places back in the day would post in their local paper who was visiting who and if they were going or coming back from a trip. Some even had announcements of divorces or even criminal news. The links we have are not the only ones out there as we will be adding more as we find more. You can always help by commenting down below or at our facebook page if you find any free sites we don't have listed.
Speaking of our site check out the right hand side for other links to many sites where you can find free information for researching. As always if a link is broken just let us know on our facebook page and we will fix it as soon as possible.
Pixlr: The most recent site we found was a photo editing site called Pixlr. This site you can scan those old negatives you have and then switch them to a photo to use digitized or to print out all for free. You don't even have to download any software to use this as it is used right from the site itself. This is also great for some of us who collect vintage photos from flea markets and garage sales. Some only have the negative or tins for sale. So this will be a great program to use to bring these back to life. Maybe with your help some may even find their way back home where they belong.
Newspapers: If you look on the right hand side of our site here you will see a link for Newspapers. These are free sites to look up newspapers that are digitized online. You can find obituaries, wedding announcements, birth announcements and just any kind of news. Most places back in the day would post in their local paper who was visiting who and if they were going or coming back from a trip. Some even had announcements of divorces or even criminal news. The links we have are not the only ones out there as we will be adding more as we find more. You can always help by commenting down below or at our facebook page if you find any free sites we don't have listed.
Speaking of our site check out the right hand side for other links to many sites where you can find free information for researching. As always if a link is broken just let us know on our facebook page and we will fix it as soon as possible.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Genealogy of the Brewster Family 1892
Here is another e-book online you can look at for free about the Brewster family. There is no publisher or no copyright.
Click here.
Click here.
Elder William Brewster and The Brewster Family
Here is the link to the Elder William Brewster and the Brewster Family of Portsmouth, New Hampshire:
Click here
Author: Brewster, Lewis Waterbury, 1830-
Subject: Brewster family
Publisher: Portsmouth, Press of A. G. Brewster
Language: English
Call number: 31833012068919
Digitizing sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Book contributor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Collection: allen_county; americana
Notes: No TOC Markings appear in scan
Click here
Author: Brewster, Lewis Waterbury, 1830-
Subject: Brewster family
Publisher: Portsmouth, Press of A. G. Brewster
Language: English
Call number: 31833012068919
Digitizing sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Book contributor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Collection: allen_county; americana
Notes: No TOC Markings appear in scan
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Using Wild Cards
Did you know you can use "wild cards" in researching some of the genealogy sites? With Ancestry.com you can search by using two characters. The first one is "?" ( without the quotation marks ). This is great to use if your ancestor's last name could be spelled differently down the years like one of mine Weed, Weede Wede. Entering lets say Weed* or Weed? can bring up different results you might not have found.
Using the "*" to at the end will bring up different spelling like with the name Ann, Ann* ( Anne ) and so on.
When using Google search you can search by putting the persons name you are looking for in quotation marks like this:
"John Smith"
This way it won't just pull up "John" or everything with the name "Smith". You can even be more specific by Entering it this way:
"John Smith New York"
This also works with dates too. Even looking up obituaries.
So give it a try and see if this helps narrow down your searches.
Using the "*" to at the end will bring up different spelling like with the name Ann, Ann* ( Anne ) and so on.
When using Google search you can search by putting the persons name you are looking for in quotation marks like this:
"John Smith"
This way it won't just pull up "John" or everything with the name "Smith". You can even be more specific by Entering it this way:
"John Smith New York"
This also works with dates too. Even looking up obituaries.
So give it a try and see if this helps narrow down your searches.
My Heritage and Billiongraves Working Together
Sometimes it takes just a group of people to get the ball rolling. Recently My Heritage teamed up with Billion Graves to work together in a project that benefits not only each other but millions of people researching their family history. Both companies are linked together to help researchers find more information.
A group of 80 My Heritage employees from Israel got together and decided to try out the Billion Graves App for themselves. They photographed a whole cemetery in Israel. If you want to read the whole story you can read it here.
A group of 80 My Heritage employees from Israel got together and decided to try out the Billion Graves App for themselves. They photographed a whole cemetery in Israel. If you want to read the whole story you can read it here.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Don't Forget!
Don't forget to look over marriage certificates that you have of your family. The witnesses actually might be related. The same with christenings and baptismals. I found this out with my great grandmother's certificate.
Look at the names. Not sure who Stephen Saunders is but I found that last name in other probate papers. And Marguerite Bourke is related to Bridget my great grandmother. Always check over every detail. And in some cases if it doesn't make sense at the time come back to it later.
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