Our Goal
is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data
for the free use of all researchers.
We started out way back in March 2000
by providing data for the state of Illinois and
expanded to cover the other states in March of 2006. Since then, we've been very pleased
to welcome the many new hosts who have joined our original Illinois volunteers, and to
continue to bring free transcribed data to our websites.
Our states are organized by region,
each with their own Coordinator to ensure as many individual county sites get updated as possible.
About
Us ~ We have over 200,000+ webpages available with transcribed data - and the number of freee webpages changes every single day! ~
~ We're all Volunteers ~ ~ We provide server space to our volunteers to display their county websites under our domain name.
~ The volunteer chooses what data to display
on their sites. ~ ~ We're completely independent - no big corporation tells us what to do ~
~ We do not accept advertising. NO BANNERS or POP-UPs ALLOWED! ~
~ We're pretty much insane about transcribing data (we don't want to just post scanned
images)
~ We do NOT write the history, we just transcribe it ~
Our hosts are required to add data to their sites, so you won't see hosted sites
that sit for years and years with no changes. As for our unhosted sites, our group works
as a team to add data to them on a rotating schedule. So even though a site doesn't have
its own host, it will still get data added to it ... just not on as regular a schedule as
our hosted sites.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online
and are interested in helping to keep Genealogy Free. If you are interested in
hosting a county website with us,
view ourG.T.-Volunteer Pagefor
further information.
And now for the sad part: We regret that we have no time to
perform personal research for anyone.
We're too busy transcribing data to stop and do research for folks!
DATA ON THIS NATIONAL SITE Unlike other
genealogy projects, this national site has data on it for more general historical topics.
For specific state data, you'll want to visit our State sites from where you can access each county's data. Most of our data is on our county websites.
We have an awesome search engine, courtesy of FREEFIND, that will search all of our county sites on our entire domain.
Try it out at: Search our Sites
DATA TOPICS
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Our group of volunteers work together on large projects
Don't miss out on
RECENT DATA ADDITIONS TO THIS NATIONAL SITE
These are just some highlights of the data we've added.
There's much more to view on each data topic index page
1850 Gazetteer- All States! Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer - COMPLETE!
Description of the United States in 1850 -- States, counties, cities/towns, post offices
Names of Fame in Framing America:
- Obituary of Susan B. Anthony
- Biography of Daniel Boone
- Biographies of the Men who signed the Declaration of Independence
Things are political everywhere!
One year we're one of the "best" websites on a magazine's list and the next year we don't even crack the bottom of their list. But then you look through their lists and see sites like "google" on their "best genealogy" lists and realize that obviously this is not something to take seriously. The last time they put us on their list and we didn't display their logo, they wrote us pretty quick to see why not. We've had over 3 million visitors to this
website, so of course they want some of our visitors to visit THEIR site and that's why they want us to slap their logo on our website.
We're all done with playing those games.
It all comes down to this: If you're looking for hundreds of thousands of webpages of transcribed data - you're in the right place and it is ALL FREE.
Settle in, click a link and get started viewing REAL data!
Make sure and use our SEARCH ENGINE that covers every single one of our websites.
Many thanks to Freefind.com who has generously provided this search engine for many years
Please respect the transcribing work our volunteers have done and do NOT take ANY data and send it to, copy it to or place on any other website, especially for-profit sites
