Here’s Part 5 in the Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. See also the previous articles for more databases to explore. Canada CanadaGenWeb’s Immigrants to Canada List—This site helps you “identify ancestors who left their home countries to start a new life in Canada.” You can search by...

Here’s Part 4 in the Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. See also the Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 articles for more databases to explore. Global Find A Grave—”Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a...

Here’s Part 3 in the Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. See also the Part 1 and Part 2 articles for more databases to explore. Global Ancestor Hunt—Ancestor Hunt hosts 18 resource categories: yearbooks, obituaries, newspapers, church records, directories, naturalization, photos, cemetery records, voter records, probate and wills,...

Last week we introduced our Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. Here’s the second article, highlighting several more databases, arranged by geographical area. Enjoy! Global Geneanet—This site hosts 1.5 million family trees with over 1.6 billion individuals. Its focus in mainly continental Europe, but it does have a...