| Access Genealogy | vast family history directories and more, good Native American resources | Free |
| African Heritage Project | records on former slaves, freedpersons and their descendants | Offline but will be free |
| Ancestry | Touted as the world’s largest online history resource. Billions of records from U.S. and around the world | After 14 free trial subscription required. |
| Automated Genealogy | Indexes of the Canadian census | Free |
| Billion Graves | headstone records | Free |
| British Library, India Office | records on British and European people in India pre 1950 | Free |
| Castle Garden | Immigration records, pre Ellis Island | Free – accepts donations |
| Chronicling America | giant database of archived US newspapers from the Library of Congress | Free |
| Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System | Civil War records from the National Park Service | Free |
| Crestleaf | various genealogy records | Free |
| Cyndi’s List | Highly respected directory of free genealogy resources and databases online | Free |
| Daughters of the American Revolution | Military service records and more | Free – Membership available – accepts donations |
| Dead Fred | genealogy photo archive | Free |
| Ellis Island | immigration records, free indexes and original records, fee to download copies | Free Membership to search, accepts donations |
| Family Tree Now | Various genealogy records | Free |
| FamilySearch | largest collection of free genealogical records in the world | Free – Membership |
| Find a Grave | Locate your ancestors in cemeteries across the globe | Free |
| Free Genealogy Search Engine | search hundreds of free genealogy resources at one time on Family History Daily | Free |
| FreeBMD | Civil registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales | Free |
| FreeCEN | Transcribed census records from the UK | Free |
| FreeReg | Baptism, marriage, and burial records from parish registers of the UK | Free |
| Fulton History | Historyhistorical newspapers from the US and Canada | Free |
| GenDisasters | for researching disasters and other events your ancestors might have been involved in | Free |
| Geneabloggers | Directory of genealogy related blogs with a huge amount of free information | Free |
| Genealogy.com | Owned by Ancestry, genealogical research originally posted in GenForum and popular genealogy articles. | Free searches |
| Geneteka baza Polskiego – Polish Genealogy | Free Polish Genealogy site that is quite helpful with finding polish ancestors. | Free |
| GENUKI | Reference library of genealogical resources for the UK and Ireland | Free |
| German Genealogy Server | ancestry research (many sections in German) | Free |
| Google News Archive | millions of archived newspaper pages | Free |
| Guild of One-Name Studies | extensive surname research site | Free |
| Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Records | Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions and Records | Free |
| Hispanic Genealogy | List of resources for researching Hispanic ancestry | Free |
| Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection | vast number of archived US newspapers | Free |
| Internet Archive | a large amount of information useful to genealogists, but you’ll need to do some digging | Free |
| Italian Genealogical Group | Italian American genealogy resources and databases | Free |
| JewishGen | Jewish ancestry research | Free |
| Library and Archives Canada | Official archives of Canada, census records and more | Free |
| LitvakSIG | Lithuanian-Jewish genealogy databases and resources | Free |
| My Heritage | Online Family Tree, Census Records, Birth & Death Records, DNA Testing. | Free Basic Family Site, Premium Family Site, PremiumPlus Subscription, Data Subscription |
| NativeWeb Genealogy | list of Native American genealogy resources and searchable databases | Free |
| Open Library | good place to find family history books, search for surnames or locations | Free |
| Patriot and Grave Index | revolutionary war graves registry and patriot index from the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution | Free |
| Preserve the Pensions | War of 1812 pension records access | Free |
| RomanyGenes | Romanichal ancestry research | Free |
| RootsWeb | world’s largest genealogy community, huge amount of free information | Free |
| Seventh-day Adventist Obituary Database | hundreds of thousands of obituary entries | Free |
| Släktdata | genealogy records for Sweden (in Swedish) | Free |
| The National Archives of Ireland | Official National Archives of Ireland | Free |
| UK National Archives | official National Archives of the UK | Free |
| US National Archives | official US National Archives site, many free genealogy databases and resources | Free |
| USGenWeb Project | massive free genealogy resource directory by US state and county | Free |
| Viximus | member submitted biographical information | Free |
| WieWasWie | for researching ancestors from the Netherlands (in Dutch) | Free |
| Wiki | Treeenormous collaborative family tree | Free |
| WorldGenWeb Project | genealogy resources by country and region, not to miss | Free |
