What is free on Ancestry.com for librarians to use. Please do not edit the presentation.

1. Getting More Than You Pay For: Free Access
to Genealogical Resources
DNA
Panel for Genealogy Day Pre-Conference – 24 Jan. 2014

2. What is Free on Ancestry?
Kim S. Harrison
Senior Account Executive, Ancestry Library Team

3. 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 100 million
memorials and 75 million photos
– URL to this site is http://www.findagrave.com
• Card Catalog or Collection Title list is free
– The URL is
http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx

4. Ancestry – Network with Family
• Build your own tree (not available in libraries and
institutions)
– The URL is http://trees.ancestry.com/Defualt.aspx?req=tree
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5. 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://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
• World Archives Projects
– Ancestry’s community of indexers
– http://comunity.ancestry.com/wap/dashboard.aspx
• Ancestry Message Boards
– http://boards.ancestry.com
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6. Ancestry – Tips and Education about Genealogy
• Ancestry Family History WIKI
– http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
– 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/
– Fold3 Blogs
▫ http://blog.fold3.com/
– Newspapers.com
▫ Blog.newspapers.com
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7. Ancestry’s Learning Center
• Learning Center
– http://www.ancestry.com/cs/HelpAndAdviceUS
• Free Research Guides (PDF)
– http://www.ancestry.com/cs/Satellite?childpagename=USLearningCenter%
2FLearning_C%2FPageDefault&pagename=LearningWrapper&cid=1265125
565120
– 21 Guides from search or methodology tips to using a particular record
group (Census Tips, Timelines, Military Records, African American Research,
etc.)
• Charts and Forms
– http://www.ancestry.com/download/charts#ancchart
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8. 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
ancestrylibraryteam@ancestry.com
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9. Fold3 – War of 1812 Pension Application Files
• FGS & Fold3
working
together to
raise funds
to have
these
valuable
pension
applications
online and
free!
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10. Fold3 – Browse the titles page for “free”
• Http://www.fold3.com/documents/
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11. Fold3 – Memorial Pages
Creating Memorial
Pages as another way to
share your ancestor’s
story and/or make
connections.
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12. 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) at
kharrison@ancestry.com or the team mailbox
ancestrylibraryteam@ancestry.com
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