Some good news for local genealogists — Ancestry.com is providing free remote access now through the end of July to anyone with library cards in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Just go to your home library website, go to the database section and look if your library subscribes to Ancestry.com. As previously mentioned in another post,…
Month: June 2020
Ancestry Canada offers free access to some records
From now until 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, July 1, Ancestry.ca is providing free access to a large selection of Canadian records. These include: Quebec’s Drouin Collection (baptisms, marriages, burials), Ontario births, marriages, deaths, and border crossings between Canada and the US. You will need to set up a free user name and password….
JSTOR extends its free online reading program
JSTOR, a digital library for researchers, students and genealogists, will expand its free online reading program until the end of 2020. You can read 100 articles for free each month without needing an institution affiliation. All you need to do is set up a free account. There are more than 12 millions academic journals articles,…
Free webinars to focus on Jewish genealogy research
JewishGen.org will be offering a series of free webinars in June and July about Jewish genealogy research. All webinars will be offered on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. June 17 – Researching NYC Resources RemotelySpeaker: Jordan Auslander June 24 – Privacy and Genealogy: What Are The Rules?Speaker: E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg July 1 – Rescue and…
Legacy Family Tree Webinars offers free webinar weekends
Legacy Family Tree Webinars will be offering Free Webinar Weekends during the month on June. Each weekend you will be able to attend a different track of classes for free. For June 12-14, it will be Technology classes; on June 19-21, learn about Great Britain and on June 26-28, the track will be African American…
MyHeritage.com offers free access to collections
Each day in June, MyHeritage.com will open one of its subscription-only historical record collections to the public, providing free access to view the collection. Many of the collections are exclusive to MyHeritage. MyHeritage will be posting regular updates on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram about the collections, so be sure to check out these platforms. The…