Ancestry.com
- largest and fastest-growing collection of online searchable genealogy data Canadian Archives Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
- A comprehensive index to over 206,000 genealogical resources on the
Internet. You'll find a list of links that point you to genealogical
research sites, all categorized & cross-referenced. It's like a "card
catalog" to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is
the Internet. This site is particularly good, because it has links to genealogical
resources in many different countries. Over 2000 new links are added
each month!
Ellis Island Records
- If one of your ancestors came to the USA by way of the Statue of
Liberty on Ellis Island, search their name and you can access his
or her records in some detail. I was impressed that the database
allows you to search using last name, ethnicity, name of town they
left, year of arrival and more. You can even see a copy of the
ship's manifest listing their names! Family Research Centre
- London England Family Search
- The Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church) site that allows you to access
the the top level documentation available from the LDS archives.
Obviously it would be a huge job to put their millions of microfilm
records online, but what they have available is an excellent starting
point for anyone contemplating use of their resources GedPage
- premiere gedcom to html webpage builder Family Tree Maker
- lots of good data Fort Wayne Genealogy Research Freed Mens Bureau
- The Freedmen's Bureau is a reference for people with slave ancestors.
Prior to the advent of the Net these records were too sparse and
scattered for most African Americans to research their geneaology.
What was once a painstaking county by county search is now online
and people are discovering a past they once thought was lost.
GenDocs Genealogy Services
- Genealogical Research in England and Wales Genealogy.org
- Oldest and Largest Free Genealogy Site Genealogy Resources on the Internet
- This site co-authored by TOURBUS rider John Fuller is similar to
Cyndi's List though there are significant differences. The two main
sections are web sites and genealogy mailing lists. The web section is
extensive though it is somewhat modest related to Cyndi's List;
however, the mailing list section is the premier site for such lists
with over 25,000 entries and 100 or so added weekly.
Genealogy Search Sites Mayflower Web Pages: History and Genealogy New England Historic Genealogical Society North America Genealogy Resources (Penn State) Penn State Univ Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
- Over four thousand RAOGK volunteers have agreed to do a genealogical
research task at least once per month in their local area. It's
people helping people, by going to local courthouses, photographing
tombstones, etc.
Roots Web
- The oldest and one of the most extensive genealogy sites on the
Internet ... and everything is free. It serves as host to many of the
genweb sites (discussed next), thousands of mailing lists, census
projects, Cyndi's List, WorldConnect, has a large number of
genealogy search engines, and much more. US Gen Web
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An outstanding project that has pages for each state and each county
in each US state with extensive links to applicable resources, query
boards, surname lists, and most anything else imaginable. You can get
to the county pages from the state pages, and to the state pages from
the main page shown above. You can also get to the state pages using:
www.usgenweb.org/xx where "xx" is the two-letter postal code for the
state. World Family Tree
- growing collection of family trees contributed by genealogists like you World Gen Web
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A project similar to USGENWEB that has sites for every country other
than the US. This project is a bit younger than USGENWEB and there are
some countries that still need coordinators; however, these are
generally countries that folks have never heard of :)
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