Ancestry.com is celebrating the website’s 15th anniversary with 15 days of free genealogy databases and giveaways.
A new database will be free each day, and stay free through Oct. 15. So far, you can search for free:
- Social Security Death Index (also free elsewhere online, including FamilySearch and RootsWeb)
- Griffith’s Valuation, 1848-1864, an important resource for Ireland
- California Marriage Index, 1960-1985
- WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914–1918, from Bavaria, Germany (records are in German)
- 1920 US Census
- Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903–1954
You also can enter to win daily prizes from Ancestry.com, culminating in a grand prize trip behind the scenes of the NBC show “Who Do You Think You Are?“
Go here to see Ancestry.com’s daily free databases and enter the sweepstakes.