During the month of August you can get $10 off the yearly subscription (regular $59.95) at Footnote.com if you join via the link from Olive Tree Genealogy. Click on the link here to join Footnote.com with the discounted price. If the link does not work, go to Olive Tree Genealogy and click on the link for the special discount. In addition to the discounted subscription offer, footnote.com also has a standing free 7-day trial.
If you have not heard of Footnote.com previously, it is a newly launched website that offers access to original documents images – a good number of which have not been previously available on-line. Footnote.com has agreements with the National Archives and with the Allen County Public Library to scan and index original documents. One of my favorites sets of images they have is the Alabama Civil War Soldiers Service Record index cards. As of today they are 96% complete. A nice thing about the site is that you get a very readable preview of the image (which is great if you don’t subscribe). There are many other databases and I encourage you to check them out here.
[...] Footnote.com Special Offer I blogged about Footnote.com back in August when they were offering $10 off the regular subscription. Well they are doing it again, but there [...]