Genealogy Peas- Site Question

I try to keep my costs down, because right now I need & want to pour any extra money in our budget into the kids instead of into my hobby.
I use Ancestry with a free subscription, which for PA residents allows me to see certain PA records. I can also keep working on a tree on their site without a paid subscription. If I really want to use the full version of ancestry I can access it through a local LDS Family Center, or even easier for me, through any one of the libraries in my county.

Our libraries also offer at least one other genealogy program at a time, sometimes switching to try a new one when the year runs out on another.

I check out find-a-grave for photos of graves in cemeteries not local to me, or to try to locate a grave if I am unsure of where someone is buried. There are more an more people creating memorials on F-a-G where they sometimes add information, but I have found many errors in that info, and just like any family trees I find, I consider the info added to those memorials to be merely hints, not fact, until I can prove it to myself that they are correct.

I use familysearch.org regularly. That site is free.

I also always recommend Facebook. If you search your by the name of the state/county/country/region, etc. of interest, alone and with the word "genealogy", you'll often find people who have a lot of hints to offer on how to find more information for that particular area, and that can be so incredibly helpful. Plus, occasionally you will come across someone who knows of your family, or someone in your family, or even someone who is related to you.

Another thing I look for on Facebook are groups about certain places, such as Your City + "Historical" or "History" OR with the word "you", as in "You know you're from Philly if/when..." or "If you grew up in Pittsburgh" type groups. They too can offer hints on how to find out more about those cities during certain times, or offer info that will help you flesh out your ancestors.

I also use Google for similar things. I might google "State College genealogy" or "County Mayo birth records" or just my ancestor's name.

I also like newspaper archive sites.   Scrolling through microfilm when you know what date your ancestor may have been in the paper is fine, but searching for their name and possibly finding a dozen instances when you never would have known that they were there is even better.  

I do subscribe on a monthly basis to newspaper.com 's basic service, because the basic service covers many papers in PA and that's where most of my searching takes place.    The site has more about some areas than others, so I'd try searching for a few things with either a trial subscription or even with nothing, just to see how many hits come up for the right area before deciding if it's right for you.     But it's been a big help for me.  I have over 700 "clippings" now about various ancestors.