Speaking of free websites that are useful to genealogists (which I have been doing lately), you should be aware of a free genealogy search engine which searches across multiple sites that could be of interest to genealogists or historians.

A recent search of some ancestors turned up links to Google News archives, the Library of Congress historic newspapers, files in the US GenWeb archives, the internet archive, various university newspaper archives and much more.

As in the case of most internet searches, this can yield quite a few links but fortunately the small snippet that shows is often enough to let you know which links are worth checking out. The link is http://www.genealogyintime.com/tools/genealogy-search-engine.html .

The GenealogyInTime search engine focuses on sites of interest. It is well worth your time to check it out. In addition, there is a Family Tree search, a tutorial on genealogy searching and more on the site. As I’ve said before, it is free and you have nothing to lose.