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  • 20-03-2020 11:00pm
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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    For those people who may be finding our forum for the first time, welcome.

    Genealogy can have you sitting on your arse for hours at a time & is guaranteed to suck lots of time out of your day.

    Feel free to ask stupid questions.

    Our main sticky is here.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    Nabidana
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭Nabidana


    Hi folks,

    Genealogy huh....I was going to bed over 3 hours ago and for some reason stumbled upon Ellis Island webpage.....and from there.....

    Ye know the story!

    Fascinating stuff. Disappointed to see so many sites charging for info. But that's the world we live in I guess.

    NBD


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    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,107 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Nabidana wrote:
    Fascinating stuff. Disappointed to see so many sites charging for info. But that's the world we live in I guess.

    There are often ways to find the paid stuff on other sites. You will find many people with subs to paid sites also very willing to do lookups. Plus the paid sites have occasional free days or weekends.

    Always a way. Don't give up.


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    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Many of the Irish sites are giving it away for free though.

    I actually think the model of paying a very small amount is better - if the National Archives had done this, we might have a census site that had more regular updates instead of it being identical (bar error corrections) since its launch in 2009.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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