2014’s Top 10 Free Online Ancestry Databases
Helpful Resources to Achieve Your New Year’s Family History Resolutions
(SALT LAKE CITY, UT, 29 December 2014) FamilySearch.org, a free top genealogy website, has published billions of free searchable historic records online, helping feed the growing frenzy of online family history enthusiasts. If doing your family history is on your list of 2015 new year’s resolutions, FamilySearch has announced its top 10 most searched online collections in 2014 by the millions of consumers determined to find their elusive ancestors or to fill in missing pieces of their family history puzzles.
Was great-grandma really an attraction in a Wild West show? Did Uncle Joe really fly the coop and move to Brazil for 10 years? Or where did I inherit certain physical traits?
The top 10 most searched collections are all from the U.S., British Isles, and Germany, but FamilySearch hosts growing collections for 200+ other countries.
This is the first in a series of articles that will explore each of the top 10 most popular collections.
Most Popular Free Online Ancestry Database Resources
Of FamilySearch.org’s 1,861 free online historic records collections, the top 10 most searched collections (See Chart) include the free US Censuses , public records, death, and immigration and naturalization indexes. The popularity of US historical records can probably be attributed to the fact that the United States is a country of immigrants. And those hundreds of millions of descendants today are curious about their ancestral origins—which many of us will eventually extend to other countries. In fact, only half of FamilySearch.org’s monthly patrons hail from within the U.S. The other half of its online family history seekers is distributed from dozens of countries from Europe, Central, and South America.
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