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Beginners |
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| Hewlett Packard Genealogy Page This is Hewlett Packard's Genealogy site and it has a series of lessons to get someone started. This link takes you to lesson 1. |
Genealogy Tutor Tips for finding information and making genealogy easier. |
Breaking
Through the Brick Wall: A collection of useful sites with several oriented toward beginners. |
General |
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| Cyndi's List: A good place to start. Cyndi has over 263,150 genealogy links. | NEHGS The New England Historic Genealogical Society. The message boards, beginners tips and some articles are free but this growing New England data base is basically members only. $60/year. | Higginson Book Company: Check out the large collection of genealogical books at this site. Maybe there is one for your ancestors that you weren't aware of. |
| Family History Library: The Mormon site. Its all free. Genealogies, some census records, the International Genealogical Index (IGI) and catalogue of documents. | Genealogy Home Page: Has 4000 links including links to free software | Access Genealogy: This site has a wealth of links to other sites and incudes links by states to local resources. |
| Rootsweb: Same data base as Ancestry. Has free web pages, forums, message boards, links to many useful sites including ship, passenger and vital records. It is the site that hosts Pastfinders' Web Page. |
Internet
Public Library, Genealogy. Many useful links. This link takes you directly to Genealogy. Univ of Michigan. |
MyTrees: Claims 1 billion names in linked data bases. From Knidred Konnections and costs $15 a month or $100 a year or 10 days for $5. Get a free month with a GEDCOM upload. |
| Genforum: A message board for nearly every surname. Ask or answer questions. Browse or search by given name to limit the messages. | GenealogyToday: This is a nice site with information for beginners as well as more experienced researchers. | Everton: Has the Bureau of Missing Ancestors and thousands of articles in the Genealogy Learning Center. Cost is $49.95 a year. |
| US Genweb: An all volunteer site with state and local pages, census and cemetery data. | Ancestry: Free search but census, vital records other data is by subscription but that data may be available at your library | Genealogy.com: Not much free but searches lead to CD's you can buy or data bases you can subscribe to. Cost is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Has 130 million names. |
| Family Ttree Magazine: The home page of the magazine, this site is well done and offers much information. It has useful links, interesting articles and you can subscribe to it's newsletter. | Genealogy Blog One of many genealogy blogs keeping up to date with current events that affect genealogists. Run by the Editor of Evertons Genealogy Helper. |
Usenet Genealogy
Search Pages: Newsgroups can be a source of genealogical data. this directory is a listing of 62 Usenet newsgroups on genealogy. You may find sources here that are not found anywhere else. |
| Godfrey
Memorial Library Biography and genealogy library. AGBI. Membership is $35 a year online. |
Heritage
Quest Requires your library card number. |
Genealogy Sleuth US A listing of sites used by professional genealogists. |
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Genealogy This page lists thousands of genealogical Internet pages and informs you when any of them is updated. |
Ellis Island Locate your immigrant ancestor here. |
Order
forms Have forms sent to you for ordering Government records by mail. |
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State Archives Ancestry list of state archives. |
State
Libraries Public Libraries' list of state libraries. |
Bible Records Online www.biblerecords.com |
| Headstone Hunter: This is a volunteer site. Post a request and someone will photograph a grave for you. Only cost is film and postage. Digital photos are free. Needs volunteers. | Find a Grave: This site has 4 million graves listed and includes graves of famous people. |
Death Indexes from All 50 States Includes death indexes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Ancestor Index from all 50 States |
| FamilySearch Labs A testing site where the Church of latter Day Saints tests new programs before release to the public. | Project Gutenberg The original books online site located at the University of Illinois. Search for an download out-of-print books. | Google Books Google has scanned and made available thousands of books, some with full view and some with limited or snippet view depending on copyright status. |
| The Web site www.linkpendiurn.com offers links to over 3.5 million Web sites, links that lead you to Web sites specific to one surname; or links to a U.S. locality where detailed genealogical information is available. | ||
National |
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| National Archives: The home page of the National Archives. Now publishing online at www.footnote.com |
Nara Form 180 Print order form for military records for service after 1917. May be restricted. |
Library of Congress Maps: This is a large collection of maps covering cities and towns, battles, and exploration from 1500 to 2002. |
| Bureau of Land Management: The BLM Government Land Records Office will provide on-line records of any land bought by or granted to an ancestor by the US Government. |
Order government records online. Ship's passenger lists, military service and pension records, land records and more. |
CensusLinks: There are 7856 links to geographically organized census
pages all done by volunteers. Search by location. Census research guide providing information about researching every US census. |
Historic |
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The Mayflower History Page Caleb Johnson's history of the Mayflower has data on the Pilgrims. |
Civil
War Soldiers and Sailors System: Enter a name and which side he was on and receive information about an ancestor in the Civil War. This data base is now complete.(10/15/04) |
Colonial America: A source of information on the colonial period and its wars from New England to Georgia. |
International |
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| British Genealogy: A great site for information on the United Kingdom and Ireland. Information for beginners with a section on doing research from ouside UK and Ireland. | Irish Genealogy: The National Archives of Ireland has some guidance on seeking your Irish ancestors and several searchable data bases. It also has links to other sites of interest. | Irish Passenger Lists: This a list of ships from Ireland. Click on the ship and see a list of passengers. Not searchable but ships dates are listed and passenger lists are in alphabetical order. |
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Free pages of
Northern Ireland records Free pages from an organization that will do paid research in Ulster County. |
Canadian Genealogy: This site has links to all of the provinces and territories and a searchable data base of military, land grant and immigration. |
Genealogy of UK and Ireland. How to get genealogy records from the British Isles. |
| German Genealogy: This site has links to many German resources | Hispanic Genealogy: There's a tutorial on Spanish surnames and then links to wordwide resources of Hispanic genealogy. | Jewish Genealogy: There are discussion groups, guides to Jewish genealogy, Family Finder, a Jewish calendar, a surname seeker and Holocaus Database. |
| Norwegian Resources http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.exe?spraak=e |
East European Genealogy: With a searchable index of nearly 1 million names this site is the place to start for Eastern European roots. |
Genealogy
Sleuth International Extensive US and International lists used by professional genealogists. |
| A page of links to the Vital Records of many
countries around the world. http://www.vitalrec.com/links2.html |
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State Records |
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Birmingham Public Library, Alabama www.bplonline.org |
Sharlot Hall
Museum and Archives, Arizona |
Arizona Birth and Death Certificates Arizona Department of Health |
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Resources of The Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) www.scsgenealogy.com |
California
Births California births from 1905 to 1995 |
Solano County [CA] Genealogical Society |
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Denver Library Large collection of western history. Not all online. |
Fairfield County, Connecticut Newspaper Databases Wilton Public Library Fairfield Public Library Norwalk Hour VR Index |
Digital Resources of The Delaware Public Archives http://archives.delaware.gov |
| Lake County Library System: Check out where in the Lake County, FL Library system a book is before you head out. Lists books in the Genealogy Room. | http://www.thecolumbuslibrary.org/ The Chattahoochee Regional Library, Columbus, Geogia system with genealogy and local history |
Oak Lawn Public Library – Oak Lawn Local History, Illinois http://www.lib.oak-lawn.il.us/local.html |
| Illinois Computer Genealogy has a very detailed web site with links to information on many other sites. There's an index into ancestors that the members are researching. |
Illinois Statewide
Vital Records Birth, death, marriage and other records. |
Chicago Area Resources http://news.wilmette.lib.il.us/ Chicago History |
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Obituary Databases — Indiana
Obituaries from the Bremen Enquirer. |
Crawfordsville District Public Library, Indiana http://www.cdpl.lib.in.us/lh/ |
Owen County, Indiana
Historical and Genealogical Society |
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Kansas Death and Obituary Indexes Lincoln County Kansas deaths. |
New
Orleans Public Library Large collection of genealogy and other records. |
Northeast Massachusetts
Digital Library (NMDL) |
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Index to Bond's
Watertown. An index into the 36,861 names listed as early settlers of Watertown, MA. |
Michigan Death
Indexing System Michigan deaths from 1867 to 1897 |
Wayne County, Michigan Resources Trenton MI Historical Society Wyandott Michigan Images |
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Michigan obituary database www.gp.lib.mi.us/obitindex/index.html |
Minnesota Death
Certificates Index Births from 1900 to 1934 and deaths from 1904 to 2001 |
Minnesota Birth Certificates Index |
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St. Louis County More Missouri history |
Missouri
Birth and Death Records Birth and death records to 1910 |
Springfield, MO Missouri history. |
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The Itawamba Historical Society
Itawamba County, Mississippi |
Lane
Library, Hampton, NH History, genealogy, probate, cemeteries. |
North Dakota Public Death Index Last name and range of death dates required |
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New York Marble
Cemetery |
New York City Vital Records Various records of city buroughs |
Schnenectady
County,
NY Genealogies, histories, biographies, memoirs and more; online |
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Online Genealogical Resources of the
Westchester County, New York,
Archives |
New York obituary database |
Preble County Preble County District Library, Ohio |
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Champaign County, Ohio
Local History and Genealogy |
Ohio Death Certificate Index Deaths from 1913 to 1944 |
Oregon Historic Records Index Oregon State Archives, Genealogy |
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Pittsburg
Digital Library Historic Pittsburg. A collection of Pittsburg History |
Welcome to Riggtown Riggtown-Borough of West Chester PA |
Shelby County [Tennessee ] Register’s Office http://register.shelby.tn.us |
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Update on Indexes Available at the Tennessee State Library and Archives
(TSLA) http://state.tn.us/tsla/history/index.htm |
Texas State Cemetery www.cemetery.state.tx.us/ |
North Texas Genealogical Association http://ntxga.com |
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Virginia Military Institute Archives |
Virginia obituary databases Newport News Obituary Index Newport News genealogy |
Fairfax County, VA Library has historic and genealogical collections about Virginia |
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Historic Congressional Cemetery (HCC), Washington, D.C. |
Wisconsin Vital
Records Index Vital records to 1907 |
The Clark County, WI American Local History Network – American History
Genealogy Project (ALHN & AHGP Internet Library) http://wvls.lib.wi.us/ClarkCounty/ |
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