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Here's a suggestion package that I sometimes provide for folks. Perhaps it'll help a little. Good luck!
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Census information from the 1880 Federal Census is free online.
Information from other censuses that folks are providing comes from one of two subscription sites--it's not free.
One site, Ancestry.com, can be accessed either on one's own home computer through a personal subscription; or at a library that has an organizational subscription and that allows patrons to use the service at the library.
The other site, HeritageQuest, offers library-only subscriptions. Patrons can use the service at the library, OR ON THEIR HOME COMPUTERS USING THEIR OWN LIBRARY CARD NUMBER FOR REMOTE ACCESS. As far as I know, there is no additional charge for card-carrying patrons to use the service from their own library.
This HeritageQuest access assumes that the patron's library subscribes to the service. If that's not the case, then a person can subscribe to another library elsewhere, by paying an appropriate "out of area" fee, getting a library card number, and then accessing the service online through the new library's website.
There is an incredible amount of information available on the two services, especially the first one, and anyone doing any significant amount of genealogical research is almost compelled to use one or the other.
The alternative is to ask other people for free help--they willingly do the work, but they also have to pay for the information they supply, in one form or another.
Genealogy is like most hobbies: sometimes it costs to enjoy.
A good FREE source for a lot of genealogy is plain ol' Mr. Google, who lives at Google.com. Try Google searches on just about any topic--here are a few examples, in case this is an unfamiliar resource:
"Oglethorpe County, Georgia" genealogy
or
"Knox County, Tennessee" cemeteries
or
"Charles David Morgan" Louisiana
The sky, and one's own imagination, are the only limits.
Good luck!
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