Today’s post is about CuriousFox US for American research, is a “village by village contact site for anyone researching family history, genealogy and local history in the U.S.” Everyone can post for free, but only paid members can contact others. Membership is $9/year.
CuriousFox US is a message board offering spam-free posts protecting the identity of users. Organized by the 50 states and District of Columbia, CuriousFox US offers searches by surname and by location.
CuriousFox is best known for their UK and Ireland site, featured a few days ago in this post.
About CuriousFox US:
CuriousFox UK was created in August 2002. The aim was to provide a resource for finding and identifying the myriad of UK villages and hamlets, and to provide a facility for genealogists, and family and local history researchers to make contact and share knowledge at a village level. Our UK site has been working really well linking up many, many people with lost family, finding family they didn’t know existed, ands putting them in touch with local residents or other researchers with knowledge of the same families or houses. In 2004 we added Ireland and now the USA.
The US site will take several months to build up but is already producing some good results for users. We wanted to avoid annoying banners and endless affiliate links so the site costs are covered by a small annual subscription fee. CuriousFox is a semi-hobby business set up and run by a husband and wife team from their home in North Cornwall. CuriousFox lives at Tregoodwell, Camelford, Cornwall.
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