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.Guide to General Research in Virginia and West Virginia
Link to Page 2 Page Two features, 1798 tax lists, 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
Internet Sites by Kip Sperry
Family
Search (LDS) You need to know that most of the material
recently added is part of the massive Morman plan to abstract vital
records from all over, make them easily accessible and free.
More are added monthly. It is easy to
check what
databases are already there.
The databases are NOT necessarily complete. For example,
they have no California marriages, but do have most of the Ohio
marriages. You need to check all of these. Look at the record
carefully. Most of the new stuff is extracted from their microfilms and
highly reliable. See the film number, look it up and see what
the film is for. It is says that film number is for Hamilton
County marriages, then that is the source of the record.
There may be transcription errors, as always. But
this is a major new source which many people are not taking full
advantage of.
Original LDS Site: www.familysearch.org
Also see the LDS Beta Site with records included many copies of death certificates, etc. https://beta.familysearch.org/
Pro Sleuth Genealogy Sleuth Search for your Ancestors on the Internet This is a professional site but it has great links. There is no charge for using this page of the site. Be careful where it leads you.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. It also has access to other resources.
Site to Cross Reference NARA film numbers with FHL film numbers: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/NARA_and_FHL_film_numbersSelected 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 ListThe title of this site is Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records. There is a page for each state and this will give you a lot of places to search for DC and obits etc. Excellent site.
Funeral Net has funeral homes, obituaries, etc www.funeralnet.com
Obituary Lookup Volunteers - Rootsweb List
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
FindaGrave.com has marvelous information which is added to daily. It is still a work in progress.
Probate Problems: [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
I have always been overwhelmed by the
knowledge of Elizabeth Shown Mills and her ability to communicate it.
She now has a website with links to many of her articles speeches and
TV appearances. HistoricPathways
The
best free online classes on genealogy
can be found on the LDS Site. Go to www.familysearch.org
and scroll down until you see classes in the middle of the page.
http://genealogy.about.com/library/lessons/blintro.htm
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter.html
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. Also try www.gmail.com Each has certain advantages.
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 17 December 2011.