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Good, free ways of finding family history?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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So, there's a new digg item about how Ancestry.com opened up their 1930 census for three days, free (reg. req.). I'm not paying the ridiculous fee for their site, but I did find my family in the 1930 census. So, if I want to continue to track my family's records, what's the best FREE way to do so? I have a feeling that ancestry.com uses data that's already free to the public somehow. In fact, the page with my family's census data on it has a myfamily.com watermark  .
I did find that Ellis Island opened their records but I can't find my family there 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Ask a mormon. They should know where to find such data.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
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^ hahaha. i was going to say the same thing.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Detroit
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Go to your state's library (not a local community one). Do it by hand, and it will be free. Online placess will charge...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Originally Posted by starman
So, there's a new digg item about how Ancestry.com opened up their 1930 census for three days, free (reg. req.). I'm not paying the ridiculous fee for their site, but I did find my family in the 1930 census. So, if I want to continue to track my family's records, what's the best FREE way to do so? I have a feeling that ancestry.com uses data that's already free to the public somehow. In fact, the page with my family's census data on it has a myfamily.com watermark .
I did find that Ellis Island opened their records but I can't find my family there
http://www.familysearch.org is free (provided by the mormons) and might direct you to a family history center near you
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: back home
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Mormons invent family history.
At least you were not adopted.
Start with living relatives, then you will have an idea where to go next, hospital records, cities records, etc. You grandparents will tell you the names of their parents, then you might be able to find their birth records, the names of their parents and so on.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
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It may not be a quick, online way to do so, but cities normally have records that are open to the public, and sendign them a letter with information could yield copies of official documents. If your ancestors lived in NYC for any length of time, for instance, I'm pretty sure that you can request copies of older birth, death, and marriage certificates through the relevant City department.
My sister got this information on my grandparents some time ago, but I'm not sure if she got it online, or went down to the relevant City and Bourough offices in person to request it....
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