Library
Web Reference Sites
Genealogy
ABCgenealogy: Links
to genealogy resources.
Access Genealogy: Links to state records, census data, and more.
Ancestors: Companion Web site to the PBS family history and genealogy series.
Offers advice and help in researching your ancestors
AncestralFindings.com: Research
guides and links.
Ancestry.com: Most popular online
genealogy search site.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Largest list of genealogy
links.
FamilySearch: Great genealogy
site from the Mormon Church.
Genealogy.com: Almost everything you need to know to start your genealogy
research and find information about your ancestors.
GenealogySearch.com: Guides
and help in getting started.
Kinship Glossary
MyTrees.com: Subscription-based genealogy
site.
ProGenealogists: The ProGenealogists group conducts genealogy research at
the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and in archives across the world.
RootsWeb.com: Free genealogy site with lots of help for amateur genealogists.
Cemetery
Records: Here you will find online records from over
1,700 cemeteries all over the world.
County Courthouse Addresses
Ellis Island: Search the Ellis Island passenger records.
National Obituary Archive: This site offers a repository of obituaries and
death records with more than 56 million individual entries on file. Visitors
may search the archive freely to learn about the deaths of friends or family
or to explore relationships when building family trees or doing genealogical
research.
Native
American Look-Up: Look up native American genealogy.
Obituary Daily Times: Search for over 4 million obituary death dates (full-text
obits not included) from nearly 2,000 publications around the United States.
Entries typically include name, age, city of residence, source of obit, and death
date.
Search Systems: Over 1,500 free searchable public record databases.
Social Security Death Index: Contains the records of deceased persons who
possessed Social Security numbers and whose death had been reported to the SSA.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page: Site contains a searchable database
of over 58,000 names.
Vital Records Information: This page contains information about where to
obtain vital records (such as birth, death and marriage certificates and divorce
decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States.
Where to Write for Vital Records: This site from the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention provides addresses and price information for obtaining
vital records from all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Canal
Zone. How to obtain Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Certificates.
Yahoo!
People Search
Given
Name Index: The purpose of this Given Name Index is
to help researchers in locating the origin of their family
members by finding the spelling, nickname, or any other
variant which was used when the name was given, or the
name which was used most often by the person or persons,
thus tracing the possible nationality of an ancestor.
