Every day in January we have been tweeting #CheapCheeps to help your family history budget stretch that little bit further. We hope you’ve enjoyed all the tweets and have found them useful. Do let us know if they help your research in any way, and of course feel free to tell us other ideas you have – little website gems or ways to access information more cheaply!
#CheapCheep No1: Listen to a TNA podcast & enjoy family history in your living room bit.ly/tnnfu0 #genealogy
#CheapCheep No2: Plan ahead for great reading – make a list of books to read & order copies on inter-library loan service #genealogy
#Cheapcheep No3: Just #genealogy results! Search for ancestors in family history search engine www.mocavo.co.uk & get better results free
#CheapCheep No4: Redacted 1911 Census info available from today @findmypast. Free for pages already downloaded since 1/12/10 #genealogy
#CheapCheep No5: Share the map of your family history with Ancestral Atlas bit.ly/thaRlp #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No6: Find pics of places of #genealogy interest & share your images with others using @Historypin bit.ly/9mlOG0
#CheapCheep No7: Ask #genealogy questions & share info with like minded family historians on our forum bit.ly/weOMsn
#CheapCheep No8: View @UkNatArchives ‘digital microfilm’ records online bit.ly/wQSLVC #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No9: Check out your ancestral home using Google Maps with Street View at bit.ly/zP8hjc #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No10: Access hundreds of reference books in the library or from home using your library card bit.ly/hElQ18 #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No11: Get answers to your archival questions. Ask them on Twitter & use the hashtag #AskArchivists. #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No12: Watch a #genealogy tutorial video in the @FamilySearch Learning Center bit.ly/pf5Ve4
#CheapCheep No13: Learn to read old handwriting with @UkNatArchives free online palaeography tutorial bit.ly/8YWAqz #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No14: Discover the Latin used in documents 1086-1733 with @UkNatArchives free online tutorial j.mp/3RtPnC #Genealogy
#CheapCheep No15: Join your relevant family history society – a small fee could provide a wealth of resources & knowledgeable members
#CheapCheep No16: Has someone already researched your family? Search interest names at Guild of One-Name Studies one-name.org
#CheapCheep No17: London ancestors? Freely search 3.35m names 1690-1800 on the fantastic London Lives website bit.ly/8UT7J0
#CheapCheep No18: Keep up with #genealogy news by following blogs & RSS feeds using an RSS reader eg Google Reader http://t.co/X97KktBf
#CheapCheep No19: Spend a day at a family history fair! Find dates of events in Family Tree & at bit.ly/2kPp0B #genealogy
#CheapCheep No20: Search Old Bailey records 1674-1913 at http://bit.ly/arL4aq #genealogy
#CheapCheep No21: Buy English & Welsh BMD certificates from http://bit.ly/9xab8p as commercial companies can charge much more! #genealogy
#CheapCheep No22: If you haven’t yet discovered FreeBMD it’s a must for English & Welsh birth marriage & death indexes http://bit.ly/9gs880
#CheapCheep No23:Check out FreeCen http://bit.ly/4ofbIT & FreeReg http://bit.ly/bN1zJq for census & parish register info #genealogy
#CheapCheep No24: Explore the huge free database of family history records at FamilySearch http://bit.ly/i7UhbF #genealogy
#CheapCheep No25: Discover the Hearth Tax Online (& search for names!) at http://bit.ly/yUoyyo #genealogy
#CheapCheep No26: Find out what subscriptions your library has to genealogy websites & others eg Times Digital Archive http://bit.ly/wk6fpM
#CheapCheep No27: Before making a wasted trip check A2A http://bit.ly/AuFuLw or SCAN http://bit.ly/zP7vEU so you know where records are held
#CheapCheep No28: Scour @CyndisList http://bit.ly/3aNvj4 for useful links on a topic/area. #genealogy
#CheapCheep No29: Make a to-do list & a to-buy list for #WDYTYALive to make most of show offers #genealogy
#CheapCheep No30: Explore wealth of #genealogy info on virtual reference library GENUKI http://bit.ly/AWNva
#CheapCheep No31: Check out @OnePlaceStudies http://bit.ly/ArHJUh Hundreds of one-place study sites listed all with free content #genealogy
