Genealogy Trails History Group

VOLUNTEERS DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY

Our Goal
is to help you track your ancestors through time
by transcribing genealogical and historical data
for the free use of all researchers.

We started out way back in March 2000 by providing data for the state of Illinois and expanded to cover the other states in March of 2006. Since then, we've been very pleased to welcome the many new hosts who have joined our original Illinois volunteers, and to continue to bring free transcribed data to our websites.


About US

~ We're all Volunteers ~
~ We provide server space to our volunteers to display their county websites under our domain name.
The volunteer chooses what data to display on their sites. ~
~ We're completely independent - no big corporation tells us what to do ~
~ We do not accept advertising. NO BANNERS or POP-UPs ALLOWED! ~
~ We're pretty much insane about transcribing data (we don't want to just post scanned images!!!)
~ We do NOT write the history, we just transcribe it~

Our hosts are required to add data to their sites, so you won't see hosted sites that sit for years and years with no changes. As for our unhosted sites, our group works as a team to add data to them on a rotating schedule. So even though a site doesn't have its own host, it will still get data added to it ... just not on as regular a schedule as our hosted sites.

We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping to keep Genealogy Free.
If you are interested in hosting a county website with us,
view our Volunteer Page for further information.


And now for the sad part:
We regret that we have no time to
perform personal research for anyone.
We're too busy transcribing data to stop and do research for folks!

If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates,

Subscribe to our MAILING LISTS


 

DATA ON THIS NATIONAL SITE
Unlike other genealogy projects, this national site has data on it.
These are more general topics -- for specific state data,
you'll want to visit our State sites from where you can access the county data.