Here’s Part 5 in the Great Databases series of articles, highlighting cool and useful family history databases you can access online for free. See also the previous articles for more databases to explore.

Canada

• CanadaGenWeb’s Immigrants to Canada List—This site helps you “identify ancestors who left their home countries to start a new life in Canada.” You can search by surname, country of origin, or Canadian destination.

Denmark

• Arkivalieronline—See online digitized records for church books, censuses, and other records.

England

• Online Genealogical Index—This site acts as a collector for record sources in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man.

Poland

• Geneteka—The Polish Genealogical Society maintains this database, which contains over 30 million indexes from many regions of Poland. The database and its indexes are prepared by volunteers.

United States

• Fold 3—”Fold3® features premier collections of original military records. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military. Many of the records come from the U.S. National archives, The National Archives of the U.K. and other international records.”