4,170 Free Online United States Digital Archives

The Ancestor Hunt regularly adds and updates new collection links, as well as searches for and fixes broken links.
(This page's most recent update is October 2024)
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The Ancestor Hunt has been cataloging and listing links to free online genealogy collections in over 24 different record categories since 2014. These are available for you to view and use via the Resources tab above.

There is a massive amount of genealogy and historical material that can help us researchers as we discover who belongs in our family tree, and more importantly, what is their life story. But much of this genealogical and historical material doesn’t fit nicely into a specific genealogy record category.

As researchers, we should avail ourselves of the types of materials listed below. They definitely will help us in our genealogy and family history research These online resources are available generally at state libraries and archives, larger public libraries, and college and university digital collections. Hence the creation of these lists of links to free online digital archives for the state. I hope they prove useful to you in your pursuit.

Types of Information Available in Digital Archives

Scrapbooks
Diaries
Family Papers, Biographies, and Other Collections
Letters
Oral Histories
Maps
Bulletins and Newsletters
Corporate Collections
Local Community and County Histories
Photographs and Postcards
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Government Publications and Documents
And yes, Genealogy Record Collections and Indexes

The link to Free Online Digital Archives for each state is listed below:

United States Archives

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

Most of these sites are struggling because of lack of traffic and that is because Google made force changes WITHOUT telling them and they assume nobody is just interested. They can’t be interested in what they don’t know.

Google was purposely blocking them because they weren’t phone friendly which Google demanded exact layouts which on a desktop would suck ass to navigate and dumb things down for the end user.

Sites Google were friendly with were told and they jumped on board right away but most sites were left hanging in the dust and this was the end of the WWW era really.

Also Obama handed key elements of the web to the UN that made the WWW work meaning the UN calls the shots now whenever they want. You have foreign entities with no faces that control what you see/hear now.

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