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The family history resources page has reference to where you will find links to some of the top genealogy sites on the internet. These links are great for beginners. Featured are major links and surname sites, genealogy tools and services, coats of arms and family crests, new and used books, CDs, software, web rings, search engines, message boards, chat, genealogy shopping and much more.
Each family history life archive takes the place of the traditional family Group Sheet and is a very simple way to keep track of family members and family groups. Take the information that you receive on each ancestor or family member and and make a Family Group and family history entry on each person in your family. Start with yourself, then your parents and their children, your grandparents and their children. As you work back further in time you may contact relatives or other researchers to gather more family history content . Ask them to contribute to your family history research by sending them a family tree or family history archive invite and add any family material they have through arcalife collaborative tools
You can access parts of Kentucky’s family history records for free through the University of Kentucky website. Including among other sources are the Kentucky Death Index from 1911 to 1986 and from 1987 to 1992, the Kentucky Marriage Index from 1973-1993, as well as the Kentucky Divorce Index from 1973 to 1993).
In both the US and the UK there are volunteer based initiatives to digitize and index Birth, marriage and death records for family history purposes. In the US you can refine your family history search by county, state and names. In the UK you can access the index of births, marriages, and deaths from England and Wales from 1837 to 1983. The free BMD database includes over 68 million family history records.
