Archives.com, Footnote.com & NewspapersArchive.com – Giveaway
June 30, 2010 by Cathi
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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’d like to see if I can find some information about my grandfather’s family.
I would love to win this giveaway because my finace is a history buff and he would fall in love with these sites!
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I have been tracking my colonial lines and recently became a member of the DAR, this would greatly aid my research.
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I’ve been working on my genealogy off and on for several years. I’d like to get a lot more done before my mom passes away. I have an ancestry.com subscription right now, but it’s getting ready to expire and I can’t afford to renew it. I’d love to see what they have different at archives.com.
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this sounds so interesting it would be so cool to find out about the family that came before you
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I would like to win this because a family member has started doing the family tree and this would be so helpful!
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I’ve been trying in fits and starts to research some of my family history, as well as my husband’s. I’m sure that these services would be a great help in finding some of the family members.
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Thanks for the giveaway…I am the family genealogist and keeper of old photos, papers, etc.; this would be a great resource to learn more using online public documents, etc.
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I’d like to win. My daughter has started researching our ancestors. She has turned up a lot of interesting information that needs further exploration. This resource would be great.
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