101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree (Genealogy)

Free Family Tree Resources

All links revised and updated October 2016

Instead of spending hours searching the Internet for free genealogy websites, use this guide to shortcut your search. 

Use the Same Sites as an Internet Genealogy Expert

This guide contains 101 of the best websites for free genealogy, The One-Hour Genealogist guide was researched, tested and compiled by  foremost Internet genealogy expert, Nancy Hendrickson. Using her years of online experience, Nancy has put together her favorite and most-used free sites. Each of the first 50 sites include an Overview, of the site an explanation of Why This Site, and a suggested Search Strategy. 

How The Guide is Organized

Sites are grouped by:

• military 
• social history 
• immigration 
• databases 
• odds 'n ends

This guide contains links to free databases or great statewide information for each of the 50 states n addition to Nancy's "favorite 50" sites. And, because some sites are just too good to be left out, you'll find another 10 (bringing the total to 111) that Nancy couldn't do without in her own research.

Don't Waste Your Precious Research Time

Can you find all of these sites on your own without this guide? Absolutely! But why spend YOUR time finding free sites when you could be finding ancestors!

Spend a Free Evening With These Free Sites

Scroll back to the top of this page and click the Buy button. Next, enjoy an evening of 111 free genealogy searching!

*Dear U.K. genealogy friends, this guide is for United States researchers only.

About the Author

Nancy Hendrickson is the author of the Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com, Discover Your Family History Online, The Genealogist's U.S. History Pocket Reference, San Diego Then and Now, and Historic Photos of Old California. She is a life-long genealogy researcher and the creator of the One-Hour Genealogist Series.