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7 Free Genealogy Steals to Boost Your Research Now

7 Free Genealogy Steals in January include: FindMyPast.com has free access to over 8 billion records 22-25 January. Local subscribers get World access; World subscribers get 3 additional days added to their subscription. If you have any UK heritage, this is a must! Ancestry.com has free access to all Australian records 22-26 January *AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) MyHeritage.com has a large collection of free digitized books available for searching/reading (over 37 million pages in 150,000 books relevant to family history). Read about the collection here. Search the collection for your ancestors here. Just tried this and found a clue for my hard-to-trace Canadian ancestry! Must finish blog quickly and get back to the search! AmericanAncestors (New England Historic Genealogical Society) has an offering for 2016: become a guest user, get a free account, have access to eleven free databases, and all new databases are free for 30 days! …

How to get your FREE MyHeritage Account

There are two types of free MyHeritage accounts. The first is a free MyHeritage account for the general public and the second is a free MyHeritage account offer for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

First Method

Go to MyHeritage.com and select, Sign Up. You'll be asked for your first and last name, gender, email, parents names if you know them, then you'll select Continue. You have the option to upload a GEDCOM file (a type of file for family trees, but with a free MyHeritage account you're limited to 250 people so only use this feature if your GEDCOM file has fewer than 250 people).

You'll be brought to a page where it looks like you're signing up for a free trial and in 14 days will be switched to a subscription and you need to put in a credit card. DON'T put in a credit card if you want the free account.

Click on the MyHeritage logo and you'll be brought to your free account. They'll have prebuilt your three person …

How to get your FREE Ancestry Account

This is a free Ancestry account offer for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “Ancestry.com LLC is the world’s largest online resource for family history with more than 2 million paying subscribers across all its sites. Since starting as a publishing company in 1983, we have been a leader in the family history market for over 30 years and have helped pioneer the market for online family history research.” Follow these instruction to create your free Ancestry account: Log in to FamilySearch.org (If you don’t already have an account with FamilySearch.org, you’ll need to create one using your LDS membership number. If you don’t know your membership member you can ask for it from a church clerk or member of the bishopric.) Select "Get Help" in the upper right corner Select "Help Center" in the left column of the pop-up Select "Partners" in the icon of shaking hands Select "Our Partners" Select "Ancestry" Select “Create Y…