DNA Getting More Than You Pay For: Free Access to Genealogical Resources Panel for Genealogy Pre-Conference, American Library Assn. Conference, 27 June 2014

What is Free on Ancestry? Kim S. Harrison Senior Account Executive, Ancestry Library Team

Ancestry.com what content is free? Ancestry.com has over 12 billion records in over 31,000 titles available today URL to the list of Free Collections go to http://www.ancestry.com/freerecords Find A Grave remains free and has over 116 million memorials and 75 million photos http://www.findagrave.com Card Catalog or Collection Title list is free http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx

Discovery Page Send Images Home for the Library 4 No personal membership is required.

Simple steps 5

At-home access to original images 6 Your Family Discovery Page will host up to 300 images. There is no longer the 14 day timeout.

Ancestry Network with Family Build your own tree (not available in libraries and institutions) http://trees.ancestry.com 7

Ancestry - Community RootsWeb Largest grassroots genealogy community that maintains family trees, mailing lists, databases, message boards and web pages all created by the public http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/ World Archives Projects Ancestrys community of indexers http://community.ancestry.com/awap Ancestry Message Boards http://boards.ancestry.com 8

Ancestry Tips and Education about Genealogy Ancestry Family History Wiki http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/ The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy Ancestrys Red Book: American State, County & Town Source Great Resource to follow what Ancestry is doing Ancestry Blogs http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/ Five Minute Findson YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3PFkEtgQQ 9

Ancestrys Learning Center Learning Center http://www.ancestry.com/cs/HelpAndAdviceUS Free Research Guides (PDF) 21 Guides from search or methodology tips to using a particular record group (Census Tips, Timelines, Military Records, African American Research, etc.) State Research Guides are being added to the Learning Center at the rate of one a week Charts and Forms http://www.ancestry.com/download/charts 10

Ancestrys Classroom Learning Grant http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/institution#k-12 The grant permits teachers and students in the K12 setting enjoy access to Ancestry Institution (think Ancestry Library Edition with the same limitation of no remote or tree building) for no charge for three months Ancestry commissioned a K12 teacher to author 19 lesson plans supporting the State Standards in using primary documents in the classroom Grant applications and the Lesson Plans write to ancestrylibraryteam@ancestry.com 11

Ancestry Recap of what the Ancestry Library Team does for Ancestry.com Go to http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/institution#overview You can see a sampling of special projects and grants It also provides a quick link to ProQuest for their training materials Contact is Kim S. Harrison (801-705-7892) or the team email ancestrylibraryteam@ancestry.com 12

Free Things From Fold3, Newspapers, Archives and Social Media Amy Johnson Crow Community Manager

Fold3 What content is free? Numerous free collections URL for the catalog http://www.fold3.com/browse.php Look for Free after the title

Fold3 What content is free? War of 1812 Pension Files In cooperation with the Federation of Genealogical Societies http://go.fold3.com/1812pensions/ Digitized images with metadata

Fold3 Honor Wall Revolutionary War to Iraq/Afghanistan Info from databases & users; photos, docs, biographical info http://www.fold3.com/wall/

Newspapers.com Can search and browse With a free guest account: See full search results Use all the search filters Save searches Make comments on clippings

Archives.com 1940 Census (index and images) http://www.archives.com/1940-census American Family Through Time (demographics & census questions, 1790-2010) http://www.archives.com/genealogy/1940-census-facts.html Patriots of Color database African-Americans in the Revolutionary War Project by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. http://www.archives.com/patriots

Social Media Blogs Great source of updates and education http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/ http://blog.fold3.com/ http://blog.newspapers.com/ http://www.archives.com/blog/

Social Media 20 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Ancestry.com https://www.facebook.com/foldthree https://www.facebook.com/newspaperscom https://www.facebook.com/Archives.com Twitter @ancestry @archivescom @fold3 @_newspapers

Social Media 21 YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/AncestryCom http://www.youtube.com/user/Fold3Team http://www.youtube.com/user/Newspapersvideo