Got Australian or New Zealand Ancestors?

Findmypast is opening up their entire collection of Australian and New Zealand records FREE from Friday, April 21 to Tuesday, April 25, 2017 to mark Anzac Day.

Observed on April 25, Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations and the contribution and suffering of all those who have served (Wikipedia, Anzac Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day). 

Click here to search Findmypast's over 96 million Australian and New Zealand records for FREE. While you are there, scroll down to get more free stuff:

• Free guide: Tracing Ancestors in Australia and New Zealand
• Free webinar: How to Discover Your Anzac Ancestors
• The Complete Guide to Findmypast's Global Military Records
• Get Back to Britain and Ireland with these FREE Records

Family Tree Webinars Celebrates 500th Webinar with Free Access

This Friday, April 14, 2017, FamilyTreeWebinars.com will broadcast its 500th webinar! Eric Basir has the honor of being the presenter for this landmark webinar with his presentation Complete Photo Restoration in 4 Easy Steps. Following the featured presentation, host Geoff Rasmussen will throw an After-Webinar Party.

Family Tree Webinars has been the ground breaking on-line genealogy education provider since the fall of 2010. They have worked hard over the past seven years to improve the quality of their webinars in both content and technology. Read the Legacy News article "The journey to webinar #500, plus free access this weekend" for the story of their journey to today's success.

Free Access Weekend
Beginning Friday, April 14, and continuing through Sunday evening, April 16, the entire webinar library will be open and free to the public. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy the webinars you missed over the years. Visit FamilyTreeWebinars.com to find the webinars and presenters you most wish to see and enjoy.  They don't mention what time the free access ends, so be sure to watch as much as you can. If you can't get through all you want to see in those three days, you can subscribe for a month or for a year to have access to all of the webinars all of the time.

To quote the immortal words of Geoff Rasmussen, "Life is short, do genealogy first!"

Online Irish Records are FREE for a Limited Time

Two of the "Big 4" genealogy websites are offering FREE access to their Irish records in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

For five days only, Findmypast is offering free access to the largest collection of Irish records online for FREE.The free access starts on Findmypast.com today, Monday 13 March, at 2 am (MST/PDT) and ends on Friday 17 March at 4:59 pm (MST/PDT). During this time you can enjoy all 116 million of Findmypast's Irish records completely free.

Highlights of their Irish collection include:

• Over 30 million Irish Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records
• Over 15 million Census, Land & Substitute collections
• Over 30 million detailed Court & Prison records
• Over 350,000 records from World War 1, the Easter Rising & more
• Over 2.3 million Social History & Directory records

The only collection exempt from the free access is the Irish Newspapers collection.

In addition to free access to their Irish collection, Findmypast is offering a free downloadable Irish family history guide here.

Visit the Findmypast blog by clicking here for details on how to access the Irish records during the free period.

Ancestry is also offering free access to their Irish records until 8:59 pm (MST/PDT) on Sunday, 19 March 2017.  To see a full list of the records in the featured collection, please click here. To get started searching the collection on Ancestry.com, please click here. To download their free guide with 10 tips for finding Irish ancestors, click here.