Free Geneology Resources - Hugh Wallis

One of the resources that I have used consistently throughout my family research is the International Genealogy Index (IGI) available at www.familysearch.org - I generally use it as one of the first places to find information and then move to other sources if I think I am on the right track.

One of the limitations of the IGI is the inability to search by surname only unless it is a single batch or an entire country. This can be frustrating if you are looking for siblings and do not know their names and results for an entire country can be very time consuming to scroll through.

Hugh Wallis has developed a way of using IGI which allows you to locate the batch numbers based on country, country, town and date ranges for births/christenings and marriages. This has become an invaluable resource in my genealogical research and has allowed me to find family members of my tree I may otherwise have never found.

His site can be found here - I am sure that you will find it as useful as I have if you are researching ancestors in the British Isles, America and Canada.