Free Online Content Poll

Here are the results of our 14th Unlock the Past poll - What free online content do you use? 89 people voted casting a total of 678 votes. Obviously those responding are making good use of the free online resources.

Category                                                # votes           % voters

• Biographies                                                37                 41.57     
• Birth, death and marriage records                  85                 95.51
• Cemeteries                                                76                  85.39
• Census and muster lists                                55                 61.80
• Convicts                                                    49                  55.06
• Military records                                            62                 69.66
• Newspapers                                               78                  87.64   
• Photographs                                               42                 47.19
• Shipping, immigration and passenger lists         79                 88.76      
• General Archives and Government records       74                 83.15
• General                                                      31                 34.83
• Other                                                        10                 11.36 

Other options mentioned which the respondents did not see as fitting into the listed categories

• Prison and Insane Asylum records
• Australian War Memorial
• Websites like Judy Webster's which is full of Queensland information
• IGI
• Anything remotely associated with the past and often with the present
• Family history data sites such as rootsweb
• FHS Family research lists
• Anything I can find and then confirm
• Any available record
• Indexes from local history groups

Where the voters came from

• Australia - 83
• Ireland - 1
• Netherlands - 1
• New Zealand - 1
• United Kingdom - 1
• Unknown - 2