www.ancestry.com is the #1 online subscription source for family history information with more than 3 billion names and 4,000 searchable databases and the web's largest collection of historical records.

www.cindislist.com is a free index to genealogical resources on the Internet that point you to research sites and at the present time has more than 246,300 links.

www.familysearch.org is the LDS website (free) that has the largest collection of free family history, family tree, and genealogy records in the world. Their free family history software, Personal Ancestry File (PAF) can be downloaded from this site.

www.genealogy.com is a subscription website that includes family and local histories, vital records, military records, census collection, passenger lists, message boards, family home pages, World Family Tree which includes hundreds of thousands of family trees contributed by researchers. The Family Tree Maker genealogy program can be ordered from this site.

www.godfrey.org is a subscription website that has over 12 million search pages from over 400 newspapers nationwide, the 226 volumes of the American Genealogical-Biographical Index, gazetteers and maps, immigration/passenger lists, census records and a host of other research sources.

www.nara.gov The National Archives is America's historical record keeper and makes sure people can access the information. Among the most requested information categories are military records and getting started in genealogical research.

www.rootsweb.com is a free website that includes help in getting you started researching, search engines and databases, family trees (WorldConnect), mailing lists, message boards, hosts volunteer projects, and hosts websites.

www.usgenweb.com is a free website that has thousands of websites created and maintained by volunteers to provide genealogical research in every county and state of the United States. Offerings are diverse and include, to name a few, query boards, local sources for records, county and state histories and transcribed records.