December Resources
International Genealogy Websites, What’s New at FamilySearch
Geneanet
One of the top free international genealogy websites. Geneanet specializes in family trees and lists of surnames from around the world. A simple search of their index of surnames along with a location in a range of years helps find others researching the same name.
National Archives from around the world
Links for birth records, marriage records, death records, census records & family history by country
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/ Click other languages for English – Search Swedish National Archives & Digital Research Room – Databases, Indexes, Church records, Census records, Topics, etc.
https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/ (Search 24 different Netherlands Archives– More than 220 Million persons at one time)
Family Search
Search for your ancestors in the huge free Worldwide databases of their genealogy archives.
Find a Grave
Over 210 million world-wide free grave records, many of which include images of the headstone, birth date and death date, spouse, an obituary, a biography, and links to grave records of immediate family members. Now Worldwide.
Billion Graves
Headstone records found in cemeteries throughout the world with images of headstones and their GPS locations.
https://www.ancestry.com/ This is large collection of records and family trees – $ or at TO LibraryTop of FormTop of FormBottom of Form
WHAT’S NEW AT FAMILY SEARCH?
New online genealogy records – https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/
(Scroll down for Monthly Record updates) – Eg. https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/new-records-10-october-2022 Newly indexed records added from various countries and the USA.
HOW TO USE FAMILY SEARCH
https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/category/about-familysearch/how-to-use-familysearch/
PRIVATE, SHARE WITH FAMILY, PERMANENT (PHOTO) ARCHIVE.
Nonprofit https://www.permanent.org/ is integrating with https://www.familysearch.org/memories/ FamilySearch users will be able to connect their FamilySearch account to create a private permanent archive for any members of their family in their family tree. The first gigabyte of storage is free; additional gigabytes have a one-time (perpetual) fee of $10 per gigabyte. You can add any family members as members of your permanent archives. See https://www.permanent.org/
MY CONTRIBUTIONS: https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-see-my-contributions-to-family-tree When signed in to the FamilySearch website, click My Contributions.