I included those (so far) none related medal cards in the blog because at some point they will be of interest to someone out there in blogosphere and available here for free as long as the blog survives.
I have been researching my family tree for almost a dozen years now and one thing I have found to be very common are the number of organizations out there who wish to capitalize and monetize the whole process, not only the commercial sites, but also our official, record keeping sites like the Census and the National Archives.
This can be frustrating at times, mainly because you cannot "see" the information and often have to purchase multiple times to find the correct ancestor or family records. I have a suspicion that some of the more organized ancestry type commercial sites capitalize on exactly that.
I have already listed the free sites that I frequent, but it does not harm to repeat them:
Free Births, Marriages and Deaths. UK. : http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
Lancashire BMD : http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/
Online Parish Clerks : Lancashire : http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
And very recently, when I was researching John Welding, I discovered the London Gazette, a searchable archive that is surprisingly free : http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/
Some of the other free sites that I started with a decade ago appear to have been hijacked over the years by those interested in money.
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