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Useful Genealogy Websites

Most of these links have been featured in Lorain County's genealogy newsletter,The Researcher.

Help For Beginners

A Beginner's Course for Discovering Your Family
http://www.genealogy.com/uni-begin.html

Getting started in Genealogy and Family History http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/

Rootsweb's guide to tracing family trees http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/

Genealogy 101*
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/beginnerscorner/

Surname Searches

Ancestry
http://www.ancestry.com/

*CCHelper Central: a surname searchable database of queries and surname registrations posted on some 200 genealogy sites.
http://surhelp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/srchall.html

Family Tree Maker's Family Finder Search at Genealogy.com
http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html

  If you find a surname in a World Family Tree, use the link below for a free lookup.
                     CD Lookups by volunteers: mostly FTM CDs
                     Genealogy CDs, http://loricase.com/CDs/cdlist.html
                     World Family Tree, http://loricase.com/CDs/cdwftlist.html

Contact World Family Tree Submitter,
http://www.familytreemaker.com/cgi-bin/subinfo.cgi

GenServ: Family History GEDCOM data files online since 1991
http://www.genserv.com/

Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative*
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

Roots Surname List, RSL Family Search,
http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi

SurnameWeb
http://www.surnameweb.org/

Ellis Island Immigration Records Project
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/



USGenWeb - Family Group Sheets -
Search submitted sheets and submit your sheets.
http://www.fgs-project.com/

Genealogy Forms

Genealogy Forms (Mary & Duane Bailey)
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~bailey/genealogy/

Genealogy URLs

1895 US Atlas*
Afrigeneas: a mailing list focused on genealogical research and resources in general and on African ancestry in particular, serves as a focal point for information about African-ancestored families and for pointers to genealogical sources worldwide.

American Life Histories*
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/

Birthdate Calculator*
http://www.angelfire.com/va/ValsGenealogyPage/Calculator.html http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/birthday.html

Biographies - Lorain Co.
http://www.pa-roots.org/data/index.php?1238
http://www.onlinebiographies.info/oh/nco/index.htm

Black Sheep Society*
http://ibssg.org/blacksheep/

Census Abstract Forms*
http://www.genealogy.com/00000061.html

Census, What will I find?* http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/research/census.htm

Census Online*
www.census-online.com/links/index.html

CD Lookups by volunteers:
Genealogy CD's, 
World Family Tree, 
Contact WFT Submitter, familytreemaker.com/cgi-bin/subinfo.cgi

Civil War Website (National Park service)
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/index.html  
Search for Soldiers, Regiments, Battles, etc.

Cyndi's List of 264,400 Genealogy links on the internet http://cyndislist.com/

Colonial Occupations* http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/jobs.htm

Deciphering old handwriting* http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html


Family Group Sheet Project:
 Search and Submit Family Group Sheets


Federation of Genealogical Societies
http://www.fgs.org/


Firelands Bicentennial Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution
includes Lorain, Erie and Huron counties.   Membership information etc.
Lookups in SAR CD, contact  Ted Zajac 


Funeral Net*
http://funeralnet.com/search/search.cgi

Genealogy Dictionary and Glossary
http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/family-relationships/genealogy.asp

German-English Dictionary*
http://travlang.com/GermanEnglish/

Glossary of Diseases*
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/misc/disease.shtml

Great Lakes Genealogy*
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~migls/

Google Photo Archive - a great source of old pictures
http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Internet Genealogy Magazine
http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/255796.htm

Internet Stuff You Need to Know*
 http://www.CyndisList.com/internet.htm

Ireland*
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/irl/

Land Patent Records, Eastern States*
www.glorecords.blm.gov/

Library of Congress*
http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Making of America*
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Mayflower Pages*
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/

Mailing Lists*
http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html

New York State*
Vital Records: http://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/

Newspapers on Microfilm in the United States*
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

Occupations*
http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/

Ohio Biographies Project - you might find your ancestor's story here
http://ohiobios.ancestralsites.com/

Ohio - Northeast Ohio Genealogy - 
http://neohiogenealogy.blogspot.com/

Ohio Death Index  1913-1944
http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/death//search.cfm


Ohio Tombstones:    
http://ohiogravestones.org/
http://www.findagrave.com/index.html

Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: directory of online death indexes listed by state, including death certificate indexes, obituaries, cemetery burials and probate records.
http://www.deathindexes.com/

Oregon Trail*
www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

Palantines to America*
http://www.palam.org/
http://www.progenealogists.com/palproject/

Perpetual Calendar*
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/home.html

Polish Genealogy*
http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/
http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/poland/
http://www.pgsa.org/

Poorhouses in the United States
www.poorhousestory.com/index.htm
http://www.cyndislist.com/poor.htm#PoorLaw


Quaker Queries*
www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/queries.htm

Railroad Retirement Board*
http://www.rrb.gov/

Random Acts Of Genealogical Kindness
http://www.raogk.org/

Ship Passenger Lists (The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild)*
http://www.immigrantships.net/
Ships Lists, Emigration and Resources*
http://geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html


Social Security Death Index, What can you expect to find?* http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/faq.aspx


Social Security Death Index Search, (most current) http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi


Soundex Calculator (do several at one time!)
Soundex Calculator*
http://www.gedpage.com/soundex.html


Time Capsule*
http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp?action=process


Translation Service by AltaVista* http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn


Underground Railroad Research*
US Biographies  
http://www.usbiographies.org/biographies/index.php?0


US Census Bureau: SearchingFederal population censuses of 1910 to 1990 www.census.gov/genealogy/www/agesearch.html


US Post Office zip codes*
http://www.usps.gov/welcome.htm


Vital Records Information*
http://vitalrec.com/index.html


World War I - Ordnance Repair Shops, Mehun, France
http://www.sheilascorner.com/war/waropening.html


World War I and II War memorials in America
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp

Research Libraries

Allen County Public Library 
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/

Cleveland Public Library Necrology File
http://www.cpl.org/

Fairview Park Regional Library
http://www.cuyahoga.lib.oh.us/branchespages/FPR.htm
Ohio Historical Society Library
http://www.ohiohistory.org/index.html
Click on the tab "Resources"

Western Reserve Historical Society Library (Cleveland)
http://www.wrhs.org

Genealogy Newsletters by Email

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