Archives.com, Footnote.com & NewspapersArchive.com – Giveaway
June 30, 2010 by Cathi
Filed under educational, giveaways
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to commentor #67: R Hicks!
How much do you know about your ancestors?
Do you know where they came from?
Did they immigrate from another country or has your family been in the same place for centuries?
Those questioned can all be answered at Archives.com.
I have always had a love for genealogy. Unfortunately, over the years I’ve hit block walls and have had missing links in my family tree. I was a skeptical that Archives.com would actually be able to find these missing links but after searching the website  for less than an hour I was able to find several missing ancestors.
I’m more than pleasantly surprised and very impressed!
Archives.com is not a free service but from my experience it is quite resonably priced at $39.95 a year. One of Archives.com biggest competitor rings up at over $150.00 a year. This makes choosing Archives.com is a simple choice. The video tutorials make searching for ancestors and building a personal family tree very easy. There’s also an entire Search & Learn section that includes gleaning information from photographs.
The information about our ancestors is out there. We just need the correct tools to find it and I believe those tools can be found at Archives.com. I can’t wait to see how big my family tree really is.
Be forewarned though, genealogy is very very addictive!
Footnote.com is another subscription website that features over 64 million searchable original documents. It provides with an unaltered view of the events, places and people that shaped the American nation and the world. At Footnote.com everyone is invited to come share, discuss, and collaborate on their discoveries with friends, family, and collegues. The information available is amazing. The history that is waiting to be discovered is endless.
NewspapersARCHIVE.com has over 95 million newspaper pages dating back to the 1750′s, and each one is fully searchable by name, keyword, date and location – this makes it easy for to find the stories and photographs you’re looking for.
Wow! So much information and so easy to access. I can honestly say that finding my ancestors is one of the most rewarding experiences I have ever had.
Giveaway!
Archives.com, would also like to offer one lucky reader a 1-year memberships to Archive’s partner sites. The total value is over $200.
Win a 1 year membership to Footnote.com and a 1 year membership to NewspaperArchive.com.
To enter:
Just mention in comments before midnight, July 6th why you’d like to win. That’s it!
- A random winner will be selected and notified via email shortly thereafter.
- The winner will then have 2 days to claim their prize.
- To earn extra entries, you may do one or all of the following. Each one counts as an extra ticket but you must leave a separate comment for each one.
- Subscribe to An Island Life’s feed.
- Follow Island Life on Twitter.
- Tweet this giveaway.
- Place our button in your sidebar.
- Mention this giveaway on your blog.
This giveaway is open to US addresses. Good luck!
This post was written for Achives.com who provided the memberships for review and giveaway. I was not compensated in any way except for the complimentary product. By entering this giveaway, you are acknowledging that you have read, understood, and agree to our disclosure policy.
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I want to win because I would give it to my MIL who is really into family history right now
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I would love to win because my family history is something I am always trying to learn more about.
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I have always wanted to research my family history!
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I’m so curious about my heritage so I’d love to win!
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I would like to win in order to research info on my grandmother who recently passed away
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I would absolutely LOVE to win! I have been working on my family tree for several years and have come to a standstill. My father’s family came from Germany and changed the spelling of their name to Americanize it. It makes it extremely difficult to find out any information on my ancestors.
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I’d like to win because my sister in law and I have been investigating our family trees.
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I would like to win this simply to start working on researching family history again. I did this a bit several years ago and would like to start again!
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because i’m not having any luck on my research.
I would love to have all that info to use as research!
I would love to win to further research my family’s past. So far I have found information I’d never known without historic records. I love it!
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I would love this because I never met my grandparents and I would love to do a search! I have been on my own and I would love to have the tools to go back more. Thanks for the chance!
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I need this because I’ve done a lot on my genealogy, but have several lines that I’ve hit a wall on and this could hold the key to one or more of them. Thanks for the opportunity.
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I want to win because I love learning about my family history.
I am trying to research my family history now. This would help some of the roadblocks I am running into.
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I have started our family tree/geneology and would love to win this to help me fill in the blanks of my family’s history.
I would love to win this… I have also been trying to find out about my ancestors and have hit a brick wall. Thanks for the chance.
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I’ve researched as much as I can for free.
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I’d like to learn more about my family history
i would like to find my dads side of the family since i do not know them