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DNA Getting More Than You Pay For: Free Access to Genealogical Resources Panel for Genealogy Pre-Conference, American Library Assn. Conference, 27 June 2014
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DNAGetting More Than You Pay For: Free Access
to Genealogical ResourcesPanel for Genealogy Pre-Conference,
American Library Assn. Conference, 27 June 2014
What is Free on Ancestry?
Kim S. Harrison
Senior Account Executive, Ancestry Library Team
Ancestry.com – what content is free?
• Ancestry.com has over 12 billion records in over 31,000 titles available today
– URL to the list of Free Collections go to http://www.ancestry.com/freerecords
• Find A Grave remains free and has over 116 million memorials and 75 million photos
– http://www.findagrave.com
• Card Catalog or Collection Title list is free
– http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx
Discovery Page – Send Images Home for the Library
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No personal membership is required.
Simple steps
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At-home access to original images
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Your Family Discovery Page will host up to 300 images. There is no longer the 14 day timeout.
Ancestry – Network with Family
• Build your own tree (not available in libraries and institutions)
– http://trees.ancestry.com
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Ancestry - Community
• RootsWeb
– Largest grassroots genealogy community that maintains family trees, mailing lists, databases, message boards and web pages all created by the public
– http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/
• World Archives Projects
– Ancestry’s community of indexers
– http://community.ancestry.com/awap
• Ancestry Message Boards
– http://boards.ancestry.com
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Ancestry – Tips and Education about Genealogy
• Ancestry Family History Wiki
– http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/
– The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
– Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County & Town Source
• Great Resource to follow what Ancestry is doing
– Ancestry Blogs
– http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/
• Five Minute Findson YouTube
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3PFkEtgQQ
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Ancestry’s Learning Center
• Learning Center
– http://www.ancestry.com/cs/HelpAndAdviceUS
• Free Research Guides (PDF)
– 21 Guides from search or methodology tips to using a particular record group (Census Tips, Timelines, Military Records, African American Research, etc.)
– State Research Guides are being added to the Learning Center at the rate of one a week
• Charts and Forms
– http://www.ancestry.com/download/charts
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Ancestry’s Classroom Learning Grant
• http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/institution#k-12
– The grant permits teachers and students in the K12 setting enjoy access to Ancestry Institution (think Ancestry Library Edition with the same limitation of no remote or tree building) for no charge for three months
– Ancestry commissioned a K12 teacher to author 19 lesson plans supporting the State Standards in using primary documents in the classroom
– Grant applications and the Lesson Plans – write to [email protected]
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Ancestry
• Recap of what the Ancestry Library Team does for Ancestry.com
– Go to http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/institution#overview
– You can see a sampling of special projects and grants
– It also provides a quick link to ProQuest for their training materials
• Contact is Kim S. Harrison (801-705-7892) or the team email [email protected]
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Free Things From Fold3, Newspapers,Archives and Social Media
Amy Johnson Crow
Community Manager
Fold3 – What content is free?
• Numerous free collections
– URL for the catalog http://www.fold3.com/browse.php
– Look for “Free” after the title
Fold3 – What content is free?
• War of 1812 Pension Files
– In cooperation with the Federation of Genealogical Societies
– http://go.fold3.com/1812pensions/
– Digitized images with metadata
Fold3 – Honor Wall
• Revolutionary War to Iraq/Afghanistan
– Info from databases & users; photos, docs, biographical info
– http://www.fold3.com/wall/
Newspapers.com
• Can search and browse
• With a free guest account:
– See full search results
– Use all the search filters
– Save searches
– Make comments on clippings
Archives.com
• 1940 Census (index and images)
– http://www.archives.com/1940-census
• American Family Through Time (demographics & census questions, 1790-2010)
– http://www.archives.com/genealogy/1940-census-facts.html
• Patriots of Color database
– African-Americans in the Revolutionary War
– Project by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
– http://www.archives.com/patriots
Social Media
• Blogs
– Great source of updates and education
– http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/
– http://blog.fold3.com/
– http://blog.newspapers.com/
– http://www.archives.com/blog/
Social Media
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– https://www.facebook.com/Ancestry.com
– https://www.facebook.com/foldthree
– https://www.facebook.com/newspaperscom
– https://www.facebook.com/Archives.com
– @ancestry
– @archivescom
– @fold3
– @_newspapers
Social Media
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• YouTube
– http://www.youtube.com/user/AncestryCom
– http://www.youtube.com/user/Fold3Team
– http://www.youtube.com/user/Newspapersvideo
