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General Websites and Online Databases
Research Aids (directories, maps, etc)
Online Images and Transcriptions of Books,
Photos, Census
Surname and Family Sites
Military
Immigration
Jewish
Regional:
CT, IL,
IN,
KY,
ME,
MA,
MO,
NE,
New England,
NH,
NY,
OH,
OK,
PA,
VT
International:
Australia,
Hungary/Slovakia,
United Kingdom
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below. Please note: the search cannot adequately
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- Ancestry.com (subscription databases)
- Family Search
- Rootsweb
- New England Historical and Genealogical Society (subscription databases)
- USGenweb
- I Dream of Genealogy
- AccessGenealogy (links to free transcriptions of a variety of records)
- Footnote (free and subscription databases; partnership with NARA)
- World Vital Records (subscription databases)
- Genealogy Today (free and subscription databases)
- ancestorsonboard.com (free, pay-as-you-go, and subscription databases)
Research Aids:
- One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
(enables you to search listings in various databases - most notably the
Ellis Island website - easily)
- Cyndi’s List (directory of genealogical links)
- Linkpendium (directory of genealogical links)
- Genealogy Spot (directory of genealogical links and research tips)
- Genealogy Blog Finder
- Family Tree Magazine (online genealogy magazine with helpful research tips)
- Global Gazette (online genealogy magazine with helpful research tips)
- Epodunk (profiles of towns and cities – research aids, etc.)
- Wikipedia (online encyclopedia)
- Geostat Center (statistical data from census records)
- Public Records Directory (information about obtaining public records)
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- Perry-Castaňeda Library Map Collection (current and historical maps)
- Repository of Primary Sources (links to organizations with historical docs)
- Individual History Record (family history questionnaire)
- City Directories
of the United States of America
(list of repositories for city directories)
Online Images and Transcriptions of Books, Photographs, Census:
- Library of Congress American Memory Site (online images of various collections, especially photographs, Washington Collection)
- Interment.net
- National Portrait Gallery Search
- ARC National Archives (option to search digital catalog)
- Census Online (links to transcriptions of censuses)
- Books We Own (look-up service)
- HeritageQuest (subscription – online images of books, censuses, etc.)
- James Savage’s A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (transcription of this book)
- Bureau
of Land
Management Land Patent Search
- Making of America (images of primary sources)
- Dead Fred (photo identification site)
- Historical Decennial Census Data from the National Archives (including 1790 Heads of Household list)
- Project Gutenberg (online text versions of books)
- Google Book Search
- University of Virginia E-Books (large collection of letters, books, photos, and other historical materials)
- University
of Virginia Electronic Text Center
(a
variety of records and images of resources in literature, history, and
other topics)
- Accessible Archives (fee-based, online images, mostly PA and NY records)
- Google Patent Search
- Bible Records Online
- Colonial Ancestors
- Find A Grave
- Newspaper Abstracts (transcriptions from volunteers)
- Obituary Central - An obituary database and headquarters for finding obituaries
Surname and Family Trees (use other's research with caution!):
- GeneaNet (some online archives, web 2.0 site aiming to help users share trees & info)
- Geni (web 2.0 site aiming to help users share trees & info)
- Snodgrass USA
- Abernathy - Our Relations and Timeless Connections
- Rouse - Ryle Relatives
- Brewer
- America the Great Melting Pot
- Brouwer & Demarest - Descendants of David Demarest (in PDF)
- Brewer - Evermore Index (with images)
- Slinker - Experience's Children
- The Joseph Payne Family
- Ancestry of George W. Bush
- Descendants of Edward Barton
- The Descendants of Joseph Loomis
- Cape Cod Genealogy
Military:
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
- Civil
War Rosters - All States
- US Army Military History Institute (digital images of books & photos, inquiries, etc)
- War of the Rebellion (from Making of America)
- VA Cemeteries Burial & Memorials Home
Immigration:
- Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File (FIPAS) (indexes from the National Archives Access to Archival Databases)
- Ellis Island Databases
- Castle Garden
- Internet Sources for Passenger Lists
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
Jewish:
- JewishGen
- Avotaynu
- American Jewish Archives
- Yad Vashem (including the central database of Shoah victims of the Holocaust)
- American Jewish Committee Archives
Regional:
Connecticut
- Jane Devlin’s Website (families and transcriptions from CT sources)
- Connecticut Rootsweb
- Connecticut’s Heritage Gateway (online images of primary sources)
- Connecticut Towns and Cities (official links to town websites)
- Connecticut Valley Historical Museum’s Library and Archives Collections
- Connecticut State Library
- UConn’s Digital Collections (including Colonial Connecticut Records online images and MAGIC Historical Map Collection)
- Connecticut History Online
Illinois
- Illinois State Archives (including indexes to vital records, etc)
- Peoria County Illinois Genealogy
- Crawford County USGenweb
- Crawford County Historical Society
- Illinois Federal Township Plats
Indiana
- Indiana Historical Society
- Indiana Marriages to 1850 Database
- Hancock County Indiana History & Pioneer Genealogy
- Indiana Genealogical Society
- Franklin County Indiana Rootsweb
Kentucky
- Kentucky Secretary of State Databases Search (land & military records)
- Harrodsburg,
Mercer Co, Kentucky Historical Society
- Mercer County Rootsweb
Maine
- York County Court Records 1686-1760 (searchable index)
- York County GenWeb
- Maine Old Cemetery Association (research aids for Maine cemeteries)
- Berwick Maine History
- Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Old Town of Berwick (transcription)
- Maine Memory Network (photographs and exhibits related to Maine history)
- Maine Genealogy
Massachusetts
- Lawrence History Center Immigrant Archives & Museum
- Through the Looking Glass: Mayflower Families
- Cape Cod Gravestones
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
- Boston Public Library
- Massachusetts State Archives
- Old Colony Ancestors
- Farber Gravestone Collection (photographs of tombstones)
- The Plymouth Colony Archives Project
- Mayflower History (online images, documents, historical and genealogical info)
Missouri
- State Archives of Missouri Databases ( including images of birth & death certificates)
- Madison County Missouri Rootsweb
- Missouri Genealogy Links
- Springfield-Greene Library
- Virtually Missouri
- Barton County Missouri Rootsweb
- Missouri Historical Newspapers Project
- The Story of Liberal Missouri by O.E. Harmon
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection - Rolla (MO)
Nebraska
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New England
- 17th Century New England History
- Colonial Massachusetts and Maine Genealogies
- Ray’s Place (New England families and information)
- A Very Grave Matter (historical info, photos, and transcriptions of gravestones)
- New England Collections Online (NECOL) (links to New England digital archives)
New Hampshire
- Lane Memorial Library (online access to Hampton-area histories and genealogy)
New York
- Steuben County Rootsweb
- New York Public Library Digital Collections
- The Oneida Community Collection (digital images collection at Syracuse)
- Baptisms at the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam (transcription)
- Painted
Hills Geneaology Society- Steuben County Index (includes
a variety of
records)
- Upstate New York Genealogy blog (much useful info regarding NY and online resources)
Ohio
- Cleveland Public Library
- Cleveland Necrology File (database of cemetery records and newspaper death notices)
- Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland
- Cleveland Jewish Archives at Western Reserve Historical Society
- Cuyahoga Naturalization Records Index
- Cuyahoga County Rootsweb Site
- Ohio
Historical
Society
- Cuyahoga Co Ohio Probate Court - Marriage License Index (1810-1998)
- The
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
(useful research aid)
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Crossroads (digital archives)
Pennsylvania
- Diocese of Pittsburgh Archives
- Historic Pittsburgh (online images of primary sources, including Warrantee Atlas of Allegheny County, 1914)
- PA State Library Genealogical Links
- Pennsylvania State Archives Digital Records (ARIAS)
- Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County Genealogical Resources (addresses & websites for vital recs, courts, etc)
- The First American West: The Ohio River Valley 1750-1820 (by American Memory)
- Pennsylvania Land Records
- York County Heritage Trust
- Crawford County Genealogy
- Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society - WPGS Genealogy
- Washington County Genealogy & History
- Our Family Histories
Vermont
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International
Australia
- National Archives of Australia
- Ballarat & District Genealogical Society
- Gold! (daily life on Australia's gold fields)
- The Warrnambool Family History Group
- New South Wales State Records (online indexes)
- Public Record Office Victoria
Hungary/Slovakia
- Radix - Genealogy research in Hungary
- Hungarian Jewish Homepage - History
- Virtual cemeteries of Slovakia
- Hungarian Map mapy.zoznam.sk
United Kingdom
- Free BMD (transcriptions of civil registrations from the UK)
- GENUKI: UK &
Ireland Genealogy (rather like
USGenWeb above)
- National Archives of Scotland
- Gazetteer for Scotland
- ScotsOrigins (free IGI search)
- ScotlandsPeople (payment required)
- Scottish Archives Network
- Great Britain Historical GIS Project (information about British locations as they have changed over time)
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