Looking for a US census site that is free to look up my ancestry?

Question

I don't want a site that offers a week free or a month free I want unlimited free. If you're site charges anything at anytime I don't want it. Sorry if this sounds douchey but I have tried like five sites so far and some even got me to register before telling me it wasn't free, even after I googled free census search.

Answer 1

You have received some good information in the other answers here.



To add to that good information, a nearby FamilySearch Center, operated by the LDS (Morman) Church, which among other things manages the FamilySearch.org databases, should provide electronic access to census records. Being able to see the actual census ledger images is the best, as I continue to find mis-transcriptions of entries - especially in the Ancestry.com databases. This link will help you locate the closest FamilySearch Center:

https://www.familysearch.org/locations

Those who work and volunteer there will be most helpful.



Besides providing access to the US Ancestry.com databases (including the transcription/indexing/and full images of US census records through 1930), your public library probably has a subscription to the HeritageQuest database, which includes indexing and full images of the US census records. You can probably access the Heritage Quest databases through your local public library web pages by logging into you library account, with your valid library card #, and then selecting the HeritageQuest database. If you go to the public library that provides access to Ancestry.com, a reference librarian there can also instruct you in how to best access HeritageQuest.



Besides introducing you to the electronic genealogy databases the library offers, a reference librarian can help you learn about all the other genealogy resources, "hardcopy databases" (books & periodical/journal articles) they have. Even in this electronic age, not all genealogical and historical research is available electronically - free or paid.



Public libraries are supported by taxpayer dollars. Why not use what you have already paid for? :-)



Librarians--Ask Us, We Answer!

Find your local Public Library at:

http://www.publiclibraries.com/



Best wishes

Answer 2

http://www.archives.gov/research/census/research.html

this gives you some background concerning HOW you can search the census. You are looking for an ONLINE source, without understanding the service provided (and why there are charges). The answer is that places such as ancestry.com are businesses, and they do give you something that you can access otherwise..but have to GO somewhere to do. And going somewhere does involve paying (ie gas and time). LDS family history centers have the microfilms (or can order them)...there is a handling fee. www.familysearch.org does offer SOME census records...the majority are transcriptions (not the original image, which contains FAR more data of use). I believe they have images of the 1900 only.

Most experienced researchers will explain that you SHOULD HAVE the original, full page.

There are thousands of free genealogy sites. Whether or not you should EXPECT all research to be free, is another story.



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No. Drive to the National archives in Washington DC and look at them in person. I am sure your gas is free.

There is A MAJOR DIFFERENCE between public records which are available...vs reality, which is SOMEONE PAID to have those records online.

Do I think people should pay for genealogy? It is no different than any other hobby.

When you have 30 yrs experience in research, come back and we'll chat.

Answer 3

Trouble with the internet it changes and the information changes too, census information has been transcribed several times to enable it to go onto databases and in those transcriptions will be several human errors as well as 'computer' software errors...so anything you find would need checking back to better and the more recent census where the information was from originally.........the internet raises expectations as well as 'the only way' to get information which is not true..............you want good quality, unchangeable information so get up and go to your local records office/family history centre...its free and you will have at your disposal not only census returns which don't change and are more likely to be true but PRs and other records as well many of which are not online and will never be online...................................................

Answer 4

I heartedly disagree with the guy who thinks all analyze is for pay (even although I actual have finished analyze for others). In over 20 yrs, I actual have by no ability used any of the pay web content.. there are 1000's of them on line that are unfastened. yet to zoom in on your instant relative... a soft remark on family individuals traditions. they don't seem to be continuously based in info. that won't asserting they're all fake, the two. What you choose is constrained information related to that man or woman. maximum needed is to discover him/her in census information if conceivable. Take an prolonged hard look on the family individuals shape, to make certain if it tricks at an adoption (age not consistent with different infants, so forth). Is the beginning for the period of a timeframe whilst there could have been beginning certificates? Did the family individuals actual stay in Oklahoma (the main probable area for "reservations"). collect something and each little thing you may for his mom and dad and instant family individuals individuals. With a county call, do not forget usgenweb, that has volunteer based pages for each county interior the rustic. Many have seek packing containers to discover each and every connection with a attractiveness on that website. as quickly as you have exhausted all sources for that instant family individuals, you may choose some concrete reference that verifies that an adoption occurred. without that, you have not something to connect him/her to any of the community information.

Answer 5

There are many free sites to obtain census information. You might try Familysearch.com or the National Archives.

Answer 6

Many libraries in the United States have subscriptions in Ancestry.com



Visit your local library to see if yours does too.

Answer 7

FamilySearch has free censuses:



https://www.familysearch.org/