Ancestry, a leading genealogy company, is providing free resources to educators and parents. The purpose of providing these tools is to make this school year a little easier.
For the first time, Ancestry will provide K-12 teachers across the US a free 6-month World Explorer subscription to access billions of historical records, providing support in lesson development and project creation for the school year ahead.
The subscription includes:
- Unlimited access to most records on Ancestry, including more than 3 billion international birth, marriage, death, census, military, church and other records
- Access to all public family trees on Ancestry
- Access to Ancestry Hints regarding the records in this membership
Up to 10,000 teachers can verify their credentials on Ancestry.com/BacktoSchool before September 30, 2020. This offer is for new Ancestry subscribers, only.
For nearly a decade, Ancestry has been offering its AncestryK12 services, a no-cost program for K-12 schools and teachers in classrooms nationwide that includes access to content from the U.S. collection of Ancestry, Fold3.com and Newspapers.com.
The lesson plans Ancestry created target a number of core subjects, with educational topics ranging from the American Revolutionary War to the 1940 U.S. Federal Census. They have been written by teachers according to the History Standards administered by the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of the National Council for History Standards. Schools and teachers can apply for the AncestryK12 Grant here.
Parents, tutors, and educators teaching virtually can get remote access to Ancestry Library Edition as a genealogy research tool. For library patrons of over 2,100 libraries that subscribe to Ancestry Library Edition, the offering will provide instant free access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research. Contact your local library for more details.
Parents and educators will also have access to an intuitive search interface, detailed search indexes, and helpful Learning Center tools, making Ancestry Library Edition an indispensable resource for education this school year. This program will be available now through the end of September 2020.
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