General sites: Ancestors - Site produced by the Public Broadcasting System for its Ancestors series.
Ancestry.com - Portal allows you to search numerous databases. Part commercial, part free. Ancestry.com also operates FamilyHistory.com and MyFamily.com.
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical sites on the Internet - A comprehensive listing of over 40,000 genealogy links, one of the best places on the Internet to start.
FamilySearch - New site provided by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with huge database and links to other resources.
Genealogy.com - Portal provides databases, forums, tutorials and links to commercial services.
GenGateway.com - A good general site, which allows you to search by surname.
The Genealogy Home Page - Their home page is a good place to start.
Genealogy Online - A large site with a searchable database and a large chat area.
Genealogy Portal - Allows you to search for sites and surnames, vital records and software.
The Journal of Online Genealogy - Journal of Online Genealogy.
National Genealogical Society - Web site for the National Genealogical Society.
Rootsweb - One of the largest sites on the Internet, includes a database with over half a million surnames.
USGenExchange - Genealogical data exchange and surname registry that allows visitors and researchers to exchange data with one another. It is among the largest non-commercial genealogy projects on the Internet. |
How-to-sites for beginners: Resources: The Bible Archives - Archive of thousands of names found in family Bibles.
Census Home Page - U.S. Census home page, provides information on ordering past census data.
Freestuff - Links to free downloadable genealogy software.
Genealogy bookstore - Online bookstore devoted solely to genealogy material.
GenForum - With more than 1.5 million messages, it ranks as one of the Internet’s biggest message boards for family history.
Interactive family tree - Template to make an interactive family tree (includes HTML code).
Internet Family Finder - Genealogy.com provides a search engine that indexes 325 million names on nearly 3 million genealogy-focused web sites. You can also use Genealogy Site Finder to look through more than 56,000 links classified by subject.
Mapquest - Good resource for finding any location in the world.
National Archives - Searchable database of selected parts of the National Archives’ collection.
Rootsweb: Cemetery - A great site to start looking for tombstone rubbings, state-by-state listing of resources and sites (includes a poem on the wonders of tombstone rubbing).
Rootsweb: Kids - Site where kids can begin to get involved in genealogy, has printable forms.
Rootsweb: relationship chart - A chart which shows you exactly what a "fifth-cousin, twice-removed" means.
Social Security Database - Ancestry.com provides a Social Security death index which can be used to look up when and where someone died by last name or Social Security number. You can also check national online White Pages to find addresses and phone numbers.
Surnameweb - A large database which allows you to search for links by surname.
Useful Vocabulary - Genealogy vocabulary, useful in understanding legal terms found on many historical documents. | | REGIONAL SITES Cyndislist USA - Contains a state-by-state listing of genealogical resources.
USGenWeb - One of the best resources on the Web, includes a state-by-state listing of useful links and information. | | SURNAME SEARCHES/DATABASES Distantcousin - A general site with large surname link list.
Gensource - A surname database.
Hamrick: Names - Interactive map of the United States showing where the most popular 50,000 names in the USA are concentrated.
Rootsweb: Lineage - Another good list of links to various surnames.
Surnameweb - A large database which allows you to search for links by surname. | | PASSENGER LISTS Cyndislist: Ships - A solid collection of passenger lists and resources.
Immigrant information - Information about immigrant ships.
Mayflower - Mayflower passenger list.
Passenger Links - Collection of passenger list links.
Rootsweb: Ship Lists - A great collection of passenger lists stretching from the 1400s to the early part of this century. |
Ethnicity sites: | AFRICAN AMERICAN African-American links - A collection of links to African-American genealogy pages.
Ccharity - A site dedicated to those researching their African-American genealogy, includes a comprehensive list of freedman records, African-American emigrants to Liberia, fugitive slave cases, manumission papers, wills of slaves, tombstone transcriptions, and a partial list of lynchings in America since 1859.
Familytreemaker: African-American Genealogy - A good starting point for those researching African-American genealogy. | | ASIAN Cetel - A good starting place.
Chinese surnames - A database of Chinese surnames. | | AUSTRALIAN Familytreemaker: Australian - A good starting point, list of resources. | | CARIBBEAN Rootsweb: Barbados - Barbados genealogy page.
Jamaican Genealogy Page - Jamaican genealogy info page. | | EASTERN EUROPEAN Euro Libraries - Public Libraries of Europe.
FEEFHS - Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies. | | ENGLISH Census - Information about the English census.
Genuki - The U.K. and Ireland Genealogical Information Service. WEB PAGE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
U.K. genealogy - How to research your ancestors from the United Kingdom. | | FRENCH French Genealogical Center of America - For Americans of French ancestry.
FFG - Federation of French genealogists. WEB PAGE NO LONGER AVAILABLE
French Links - Lists of French genealogy links. | | GERMAN German genealogy - German genealogy home page, with a list of links. | | HISPANIC & CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICAN Familtytreemaker: Cuba - Cuban genealogy page.
South American Links - South American research links. | | HUGUENOT NHS - National Huguenot Society. | | IRISH The A-Z of Irish genealogy - A good starting point.
Irish Links - Irish genealogy links.
Irish Times: Ancestors - A comprehensive site listing land records, ship logs, and a surname search. | | ITALIAN ItalGen - Italian genealogy home page, includes a surname database. | | JEWISH JamGen - A site devoted to Jamaican Jewish genealogy.
JewishGen - The official home of Jewish genealogy.
JewishGen: Database - Searchable Jewish surname database. | | NATIVE AMERICAN Genealogy Links - Native-American genealogy links.
Getting Started - Information about getting started on researching Native American genealogy. | | POLISH Links - Polish genealogy links. | | SCANDINAVIAN NordicNotes - A great collection of genealogical material for Scandinavian countries. Includes databases and archive materials. |
Special resources: | ADOPTED Adoption.com - Good place to start genealogy research if you were adopted.
Adoption Search - An "adoption-focused search engine." | | FEMALE ANCESTORS How-to Article - A good starting off article on researching female ancestors.
Maiden Names - Seventeen ways to find a maiden name.
Notable Women - Notable women ancestors site. | | HOLOCAUST JewishGen Registry - Holocaust Global Registry which provides information on Holocaust victims, with a comprehensive surname search.
Remember - Holocaust resource site.
Yad-Vashem - The largest Holocaust site on the Internet, part of a large Jerusalem-based project. |
Unusual sites: Black Sheep - A fun collection of stories from people who found "black sheep" in their families.
Online Cemetery. - An online cemetery. Thousands of listings of people’s birthdays and death dates.
Political Graveyard - A Web page which shows where over 30,000 politicians, diplomats and judges are buried |
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