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Ancestral Findings

This site will provide one FREE search per day of a wide range of genealogy historical records, including birth, marriage, census, land, military indexes, and state records.

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Books We Own List

Books We Own is a list of resources owned/accessed by individuals who are willing to look up genealogical information and e-mail or snail mail it to others who request it. This is a free service - volunteers may ask for reimbursement of copies and postage if information is provided via snail-mail.

DAR Patriot Index Volunteer Lookup Service

The DAR Patriot Index contains names of Revolutionary patriots, both men and women, whose service (between 1775 and 1783) has been established by the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Additional information available may include: dates and places of birth and death, name(s) of wife (wives) or husband(s), rank, type of service, and the State where the patriot lived or served. If pension papers are known to exist, that fact will be included.

FamilySearch Wiki - Photoduplication Services

Photoduplication is a service provided to FamilySearch patrons who would like copies of records or pages in books that can be found in the Family History Library. Please read through this page before making a request.

Free Inexpensive Genealogy Bits

Free and inexpensive genealogy bits - look-ups by volunteers for researchers who are unable to get to other locations. All of the U.S., its states and counties. Volunteers needed.

Gen Gathering

A gathering of researchers and genealogists that "give and take". Do you have resources in your home, or are you willing to do searches at your local courthouse, library, cemetery, etc.? If so, we would love to have you step up and join us. If you come here seeking volunteers to assist with finding a record for you, you have also come to the right place. We are all working together through generosity, cooperation, and willingness to share!

Genealogical CDs

Specialized free lookups from people who own genealogy CDs.

Genealogical WFT CDs

Specialized free lookups from people who own World Family Tree CDs.

Genealogy Look Up Forum

Genealogy Today: Genealogy Lookups

Free lookups from rare and out-of-print books filled with genealogical information.

GenLookups - A Directory of Genealogy Volunteers

iRoots.Net Community Lookup Library

Genealogy and local history lookup library.

Lookups from Privately Owned Resources and Publications

People volunteering to do lookups in their own personal library.

Mocavo - Genealogy Karma

Mocavo has created a resource that is modeled after Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. Designed to give people the opportunity to volunteer and help one another with genealogical research favors.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

The volunteers of this movement are agreeing once per month to either videotape cemeteries, etc., or to visit county courthouses in the county (or area of a country) they live. The cost to you would be reimbursement of costs incurred in granting your request (video tape, copy fees, etc.).

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Wiki

This wiki is an effort to reconstruct and revive the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness site that was created by Bridgett Schneider and which became dormant with her death in the fall of 2011. Hopefully, the previous volunteers will find the site and supply contact information so that the wiki volunteer pages can be as robust as they once were.