Indexed records at FamilySearch Record Search include the 1850, 1880 and 1900 U.S. Census, plus the mortality schedule and slave schedule for 1850. Other indexed census records include the 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Census, and the 1895 Argentina Census. You can also search Freedman Bank Records, New York Passenger Arrival Lists, and deaths from Ontario, Ohio, Georgia, Utah, Texas and West Virginia. There are also a number of local records, such as Cecil County, Maryland Probate Estate Files and christening records from Cheshire, England. Most of these transcriptions are also accompanied by digital copies of the original microfilmed record. Some, such as the 1850 U.S. Census, are only partially indexed.
Additional records that are available in image form, but have not yet been indexed, include:
- 1930 Mexico Census
- 1905 Wisconsin Census
- Vermont Land Records
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- Church Books from the Czech Republic
- Bishops' Transcripts from Durham, England
- Colbert Funeral Home Records, Fluvanna County, Virginia
- Coutances Catholic Diocese Records from France
- Catholic Parish Records, Diocese of Belleville, Illinois
Aside from the free access, FamilySearch Record Search is often one of my first research stops because I'm in love with their indexes. Although index search doesn't offer as many options as at Ancestry.com, I can often find people more easily because the names are more often indexed correctly. FamilySearch Record Search indexes are especially accurate (although not perfect, of course), because information from every record is extracted by two different people. The two extractions are then compared for accuracy. If they do not agree 100% then an arbitrator compares both extractions against the original record and makes any necessary changes.
If you haven't yet checked out FamilySearch Record Search, you can register online. Most registrations are processed almost immediately so you can start searching quickly. Click on Record Search from the main page at FamilySearch Labs. If you like what you see (or even if you don't), be sure to use Feedback to let them know!
Thanks so much for this article. I hadn’t looked at Record Search in a while, but at your prompting, I checked it out again. I found records for one of my families that I couldn’t even get from the original source! (More about that soon at GeneaBlogie!
Thanks again.
Yet another great and informative article from about.com
The FamilySearch Record Search capabilities at this great site have certainly been enhanced the the depth of records had certainly grown since the last time I used their site. Any serious genealogy researcher needs to try these enhanced features at FamilySearch Labs.
The LDS search proved useless. I submitted crucial data on myself and came up empty.
You say it’s free, yet when you type in all the necessary information, it comes up empty….if you want more, you have to pay a fee……duh?
The sites you gave are useless. I entered easily verifiable info that is documented in public sources and nothing comes up. Rip off and misleading.
Rick and others who are having trouble finding what they are looking for,
The records at FamilySearch Record Search are all free and are most definitely not useless. They don’t have information on everyone who ever lived and don’t claim to. What they do have is digitized copies of original records (plus searchable indexes) from a wide variety of sources. Click on “Search or Browse our record collections” to browse by location at FamilySearch Record Search so you can see what is presently available. New records are also being added almost weekly.
Kimberly
I am going to have to agree with Rick, yvonne and beverly. I’m not even going to jump through the hoops.
Thier comments are true i’m sure. Just like the rest of the
‘Tree’ sites, you want us to give you info. that we are looking for. Empty and endless circles for nothing. Thanks for nothing. That is free.
If you don’t have a credit card for these”free” sites your’e screwed, is there actually a free site anywhere that doesn’t require a credit card!!
This is not free it is a rip off to have to sign in
It is definitely 100% free. No money required. No credit card required. You do have to register because some of the governments and other record agents who have provided the records require this to allow access to the digital document images. But all you have to do is register to receive a login and password. Nothing else.
“Free” trial, yeah, right. Credit card number please, and the same ad for ancestry.com. Free for a small fee of $24.95/month. This is a LDS site?
This sucks !!
What ever happened to “FREE”?
It doesnt mean 29.95, or anything else.
FREE is FREE is it not?
What Beverly says..
I have to agree, I put the years from the year he was born (1926) till the year he passed (2006) and it was giving me stuff from the 1700′s.
It is useless and I have spent the past nine hrs this evening and tonight surfing the web for a site and there is not a decent one for “FREE” let alone ever other time I have tried for the past six years!!!!!
I have found information of what I already have, but I need help to further finding information regarding my great grandfather’s mother. The problem is I don’t think there’s any record findings regarding my great great grandmother who was born and died in Granada, Nicaragua Central America.
I would appreciate it very much any guidance/help/direction as to how I can get births/deaths certificates, from here to there.
I’ve tried to find out if there was a Genological Society based there, but no avail. Thank you for extending your ears out to my problem. Violet
Absolutely useless site. Came up with zip.
I came up with nothing by using the sites you named.
WHY, do so many sites say FREE then they want you money to show you what they found and you don’t know IF it is who you are looking for or not.
To me this is false advertising and should be changed or something should be done to let people know that you will NOT get any info unless you PAY
I do not know if this is the place for this but I just tried Archives.com for FREE Obituaries and it made me mad as they want money up front.
tried and tried got zipp-O years ago i found a huge amount of info online for free back when you wern’t run around in circles unfortunately due to a disaster i lost all of my family history sucks free 14 day here and there and a hit on your card my family was given to me for free why do i have to pay strangers for my family’s info
I’m only 13 years old and there are no records for me out there!!! My parents’ relatives list doesn’t have me for their daughter! I’m all sad now.
As a lot of other comments suggest, there is no such thing as “Free.” Every genealogy site that I have ever tried to use will give you enough info for a tease. To get further info you must subscribe.
I dont know what the rest of you did wrong but this site was VERY useful…..the website help me find my grandfather whom i have never meet before up until 34 days ago….adn it was free so maybe you guys are just searching it wrong
They probably won’t post this because it’s sort of how these Genealogy Web Site rip people off.
Think about it folks; You big some pretty big money to have access to various web sites that tell you they have your family history for the asking. I’m talking about $50,00 plus for a year, if your lucky.
Ask yourself, “Why am I paying these people big money to find out, 1) they usually don’t have the information you are looking for, 2) they ask you to send them the information you already have, and they don’t pay you a cent for it, right? Then they turn around and sell this information you’ve given to them back to the folks that are still looking for their family history. It’s a rip-off.
They charge you $15.00 to $25.00 dollars for a COPY of a Birth Certificate, Death Certificate, Marriage Certifcate etc; etc; when all they have to do is make it accessible in PDF form, so you can download, and print your own copy. It’s a big rip-off
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Every where you try to go to and it says “FREE” it is not there should be a law against saying it is free when it is not. Nothing is free and it should not be worded as FREE. This is awful. There are people out there who does not have the money to try to find their family roots but would like to know about their family.. Money is the root of all evil… Greed
The vast majority of all these Geneaolgy sites are a big rip off. Most of them do not have the information your are looking for. The icing on the cake is when you the, person researching your family, enter what ever information you have, and these site take that information and sell to others who are researching their families. YES, it is a big rip
off.
Free serach, free registration, until you look for an event then you are immediately on payment page . A complete Con.
It’s sad that they’ve capitalized on what should be public information.
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You guys are worse than the sites that advertise a cost because you direct us to “free sites” that are not free.
Not 1 of the sites you directed me to was free.
All sign up for a “free 2 week membership”.
If they want money or a credit card then that is a “cost”.
Nothings free especially if everyone wants a credit card for something free.
Sound free to you?
Do you have any idea what they do with that info?
Apparently not.
Doesn’t Ancestry.com really OWN all these F R E E sites, masquerading as no cost sites–but wait– “they need your credit card #,”and probably in the future a pint of blood to assist with DNA projects.
Great FREE information– just “buy” it!