View Original Documents Online
Ancestry is saving its subscribers time and money by allowing them to view and print documents that have traditionally been stored on microfilm or in a limited number of archives and libraries. The online images provide detail only available through original records.

Our largest image collections include the U.S. Federal Census, the U.K. Census Collection and our Historical Newspaper Collection. We also have many smaller collections including an essential Civil War Pension index for the military researcher and the Pallot Marriage and Baptism Indexes for those researching in the United Kingdom. In addition, we are committed to provide images with a large portion of our new databases that we add to the website every working day.

Our free viewer software allows you to see these images in the comfort of your home, with all of the convenience and power you have learned to expect from Ancestry. Many of the collections are fully searchable now and we will continue to add indexes to images throughout the year.

Watch for this icon on Ancestry. That means that the database has linked images which you can view, save to your home computer, or print for your family history files.