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One of the most frequently asked questions sent into to us is "Can you help me with my family tree as I don't have the time to work on it?" Unfortunately, we rarely have the time either. But there is an excellent tool that can speed things up for you and is a tremendous time saver.

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You've probably surfed around enough to have seen banners like this one plastered all over the place. Maybe you even clicked through and tried a few searches only to realize you had to pay to access the information.

We've all been to a shopping mall, right? And you know what it is like to purchase something when you can look at it and even try it on. But buying access to an online service is not as easy, and for some reason it always seems more expensive than it really is.

So what's so different about Ancestry? The fact that banners are all over the place does their service a misjustice. They don't give you the full story; there are some really great databases behind their Super Subscription.

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Civil War Research Database - This database is a historic effort to compile and link all available records of common soldiers in the Civil War. It includes state rosters, pension records, and regimental histories of 2.1 million soldiers.

The Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (PILI) contains immigration, passenger and naturalization records of individuals that came to the U.S. and Canada between the 16th and mid-20th centuries, containing more than 2.8 million citations. Information includes the name and age of the immigrant; year and place of arrival, naturalization, or other records which indicates person indexed is an immigrant; and names of all listed family members, with their age and relationship to the main entry.

Irish Records Index, 1500-1920 - After the fire at the Dublin Record Office in 1922, the government appealed for Irish residents to donate any copies of records they possessed. This appeal yielded a large and widely varied collection of information that the Family History Library in Salt Lake City microfilmed in the 1960s. This database is an index to these records now in possession of the Library. Each entry reveals the person's name, date of record, and residence in Ireland. More importantly, the microfilm, box, and item numbers are provided to aid the researcher in obtaining a copy of the original record.

Mexican Parish Records - THis is a collection of records includes marriage, baptism, and death records from nine Mexican parishes: Matamoros, Agualequas, Mier, Sabinas Hidalgo, Vallecillo, Cadereyta, Camargo, Cerralvo, and Guerrero. The original records were well kept, often including information about immediate relatives, spouses, parents, and even grandparents. This collection includes over 66,000 records and over 200,000 names from as early as 1751 and as late as 1880.

The 1890 Census Substitute - When a basement fire in the Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. destroyed most of the 1890 federal census, a valuable source of information was lost to researchers of America's past. Ancestry.com, with the aid of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Allen County Public Library, now provides the first definitive online substitute for the missing census. More than 20 million records have been identified for inclusion in the collection and additions will be made regularly as they become available for posting.

Great Migration Begins - This is a collection of biographical sketches profiling immigrants to New England between the years of 1620 and 1633. The collection provides great detail on nearly nine hundred immigrants to which tens of millions of Americans can trace their roots.

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