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Free Access to SAR Applications During July 4th Weekend

If you know you have ancestors who fought in the American Revolution (and even if you don’t), you’ll want to check out the Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications which is freely open to search this weekend only at Ancestry.com!

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Free Civil War Records for a Limited Time!

Hey everyone – I just ran across an email from Footnote.com that they are allowing free access to all their Civil War records for the month of June! WOW! Now, that is an offer that you certainly don’t want to pass on! All you need is to sign up for a free account in order to download the images. Footnote is a site that collects scanned documents (instead of searching just an index like Ancestry does).

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Ancestry Toolbar Helps Search and Organize Genealogy Sources

It’s not a surprise that Ancestry.com has come up with a new gadget to help you find your ancestors. Recently, Ancestry.com released a new toolbar which you can install to your web browser. What the toolbar allows you to do is grab information off any genealogy website you might be looking at and add it your your free family tree. It can also help you organize any information you have found online and access your family tree very quickly, in the event you don’t have that information at your fingertips (perhaps while you are surfing the Internet on your lunch break at work).

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Military Genealogy Records for Free – Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System

It’s always exciting to think that you might have a Civil War ancestor (or two) hiding in your tree. Was he a great hero who led his troops as an officer or perhaps served a brave infantry man? If you do, then there is a wide variety of information about that soldier that you can uncover – much of it for free! There are a few different places to look online but today, I am going to talk about the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (I will call it CWSS for short). Continue reading Military Genealogy Records for Free – Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System