This site is maintained for the convenience of myself and my friends and those who attend my lectures on genealogy. I find it is difficult to type in a long series of URLs without error and aggravating as well. So I have started putting my interesting sites here. I have omitted fancy graphics to make the pages load quickly.
If you find any broken links, please let me know immediately.
This is Page One which features: General Sites, locating people, places, resources; death record and obituary problems; and sites with free printable forms, newsletters, and learning programs, free email.
Link to Page 2 Page Two features, Census problems, Immigration Problems, Old Maps, Military Records, Sites on the origin of names and naming patterns, plus a group of little known sites with very interesting records.
Link to Page 3
Page 3 Features preservation of old documents, pictures, adoption
sites, and a number of miscellaneous places to find great
information.
Link to Page 4 Page 4 features some interesting sites with unusual information.
Link to Page 5 Page 5 features links to help you find newspapers all over the United States and the world.
General Sites
These are some of the top genealogy
sites on the Internet.
Cyndi's site Click here: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Genweb: Click here: The USGenWeb Project- Links to States
Rootsweb: Click here: RootsWeb.com Home Page
Family Search (LDS) Click here: http://www.familysearch.org
Also see the LDS Pilot site with millions of records: http://pilot.familysearch.org
Lots of Interesting Links: Genealogy is….. This site also has links to a fabulous site where people will do limited lookups on CDs for you.
Selected Sites for locating people/places/resources.
Zip Codes and mailing information Post Office Online
You can look up the location of a town, or other place here if you don't know what state it is in or what county it is in.: USGS GNIS (GNIS)
Locate the web sites for State Archives or State Library for all 50 states: State Archives Referral ListFuneral Net has funeral homes, obituaries, etc. http://www.funeralnet.com/
Obituary Lookup Volunteers - Rootsweb List
The Death Index Problem: Listed by state. Some are free and some are not. Online Searchable Death Indexes & Databases
How to get vital records from everywhere. http://www.vitalrec.com/usmap.html
Birth, Death, and Marriage Indexes http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com/
Most of these are free. Some of these just lead back to Ancestry.com
However, it also leads to those supported by other free agencies.
Death, funeral and tombstone information: Interment.net
The USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project
The Probate Problem: [Now includes some naturalization and guardianship indexes.] This is mostly a set of indexes but does include some actual records. Click here: SAMPUBCO
Free Printable Forms
http://www.genealogysearch.org/free/forms.html
http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/gfaol/beginners/forms.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/books/gengoodies.html
http://genealogy.about.com/library/lessons/blintro.htm
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter.html
Learning and Newsletters
This is a great site for anyone with grandchildren who would
like to learn more about their heritage. This site is
sponsored by the National Genealogical Society. http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/youth.htm
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/learnfree.html They will send you one free copy of their newsletter.
Richard Eastman’s Newsletter-one of the best deals on the internet. He has a free version and a paid version. Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
Computer Problems
www.yahoo.com This is a site for free email. It is my favorite. You should have at least one extra email address that you use for lists, etc. It will cut down on the spam and yahoo has a good spam filter. If it gets bad, you can dump the address and get another free one. Also if you have to change your server you can still get your mail.
Spyware Control Programs Download both of these and run them once a week. One of the main reasons for slow computer functioning on the net is ad ware.
Last updated 3 August 2009