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Basic Resources British Isles Calculators & Tools Canada CCC DNA Resources Europe Getting Started Immigration Maps Military Records Miscellaneous Photographs Public Records Search Railroads US Civil War US States	Curious about your Family Tree?   Have a site to recommend or find a broken link? Contact us Read Stories and Insight in History & Genealogy at   Getting Started 6 Steps To Your Family History: 15 Minutes At A Time   - This is a marvelous site with a basic six step approach for your project followed by more and more details as you progress. Scroll down to the Tool Box section to find an incredible collection of neatly organized links for reference to continue learning, searching, and keeping your information. A Genealogist's Guide to Tracing People from Our Past   - Places to Start, Most Popular Last Names, and a free people search. An educational blog designed to help weekend warrior genealogists learn how to climb their family trees. Genealogy Ultimate Beginners Guide   - A nicely presented introduction with image examples and guidance to record sources you may not think about!   Basic Resources FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service LDS GenForum - Home RootsWeb.com Home Page USGenNet WorldConnect Project - Connecting the World One GEDCOM at Time WorldGenWeb Project GeneaNet - Discover your genealogy and family history Access Genealogy National Archives and Records Administration Home Page Genealogy and the Law : A Layman's Guide to Legalese, legal terms and abbreviations you may encounter in your findings.   British Isles Kent Genealogy Lancashire Surname List Online Parish Clerks also known as OPCs (from cyndislist) UK Statistics Authority The Office for National Statistics (ONS) the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics Greenwich Land Tax 1790 An Index of the Poll of the Freeholders of Wiltshire English newspaper indexRichard Heaton's Family History Homepage / with an index to British and Irish Digitized Newspapers. National Archives of England, Wales, and the UK The British Library : Visit the Digital Collections for British Newspapers 1800-1900 Trafalgar Ancestors England and Wales - BMD records and images UK Birth Marriage Death Records - Part of the British Genealogy Network BIGenealogy - British Isles Genealogy Visiting Britain's Churchyards and Garden Cemeteries Kent's Directory 1740 Cities of London and Westminster, and the Borough of Southwark Ulster Historical Foundation - Irish and Scots-Irish Family History Research. Ireland / National Catholic Parish Registers   Canada Canada GenWeb Project - Project GenWeb du Canada Library and Archives Canada Ontario Genealogical Society Archives of Ontario /Newspapers - A PDF file listing all of their holdings. Arranged in the first section by the name of the paper, and in the second section by the place name. The Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association Anglican Church of Canada / Archives Historical Canadian Newspapers Online - a Guide from the Library at Bowling Green State University   Europe Prussian / German Genealogy Help German Genealogy Internet Portal Hungarian Genealogy List, Help and Links   Immigration New York City and the Historical Ellis Island: A sightseeing site with links to Ellis Island and related genealogy sites. The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation : Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration. On the Trail of Our Ancestors-Index to Ships' Lists ISTG - Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild Manifest Markings - A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations Castle Garden - arrivals at New York prior to when Ellis Island opened, more than 10 million names of those who arrived between 1830 and 1892. Castle Garden ships passenger lists, 1855-1890 ONE-STEP WEBPAGES by Stephen P. Morse - Forms for searching ships passenger lists at Ellis Island, Castle Garden, and other U.S. ports.   Maps The Bureau of Land Management- Eastern States General Land Office (GLO) Records Atlas of Historical County Boundaries- The Newberry Library. Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture. 1883 Atlas of the German Empire German Maps at BYU: In the Harold B. Lee Library Digital Collections MAPCO: Map And Plan Collection Online - high-quality maps to aid genealogists with U.K. interests. The site currently has 10 London maps and views dating from circa 1560 to 1897 with more London and English county maps planned. Use these maps to illustrate your family history project. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps - Texas (1877-1922) - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: University of Texas NY Public Library Hi-Res Maps U.S. Geological Survey Site Search USGS site for information on Using Maps in genealogy.   Military Resources Online Military Indexes and Records: Rosters, databases of soldiers, draft card databases and listings of casualties. The Virtual Wall: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Search Military Records: Hosted by FindMyPast. Registration or Subscription may be required. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MAPS (1861-1865) - Brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia.   Photographs & Images Find Ancestral Photographs And Family History At Dead Fred - Genealogy Photo Archive Naval History & Heritage: Photographs PRESERVING AND PROTECTING PHOTOGRAPHS   Railroads Locating Railroad Employee Records Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum Missouri Pacific Historical Society Rosenberg Railroad Museum - Rosenberg Texas   Resources for DNA and Genealogy DNA Testing Guides - The Best DNA and Ancestry Products Compared Guide to Finding the Best DNA Ancestry Test DNA Testing Guides - The Ultimate Beginner's Guide           Top of Page   Miscellaneous Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers from the Library of Congress National Archives: Access to Archival Databases - Browse by Category or Search. Passenger Lists, Time Spans, Wars, and more.[access to archival databases] Ancestralfindings.com Cemeteries and Cemetery Records Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet Familytree.com - collection of genealogy links, family history, and coat of arms Fulton History: Old New York Postcards & Historical Newspapers From The United States and Canada Genealogy - Surname Web - Research Your Ancestry! Genealogy Search - Portals, Ancestry and Family Tree Search Engines Genealogy Archives- The Genealogy Home Page Internet Public Library - Genealogy Vital Records Information for United States (birth, death or marriage certificate) Linkpendium - The definitive directory to genealogical and other resources on the Web. Find A Grave GenTutor FAMILY RELATIONSHIP CHART National Digital Newspaper Program - A partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities          * Top of Page *   Calculators and Tools Inflation Calculator U.S. Dollar Historical Value Weather History - Worldwide, averages, forecasts, current conditions. WolframAlpha - computational knowledge engine   CCC: The Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois The National Park Service : search for CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps as part of WPA (1933-1942) built improvements still standing in our National Parks. The Great Depression and The CCC : links on cyndislist	History Resources Library Sites You can help support the life of this site with your donation
Florida Illinois Kentucky Louisiana Missouri New York Tennessee Texas Virginia	U.S. States Public Records Search : an accurate and easy to navigate directory of legal and law enforcement office contact information. Easily find the phone number or address for that County Clerk you are looking for!   Florida Land Boundary Information System   Illinois Illinois Statewide Marriage Index - Illinois State Archives Springhouse Magazine Online - An Adventure Shaped Like a Magazine. Articles of regional interest in the Southern Illinois scene. Lawrence County Family History & Genealogy (Linkpendium) The Scots and their Descendants in Illinois A digital presentation of a book by Thomas C. MacMilian. CyberDrive Illinois - Archive Databases   Kentucky Kentuckiana Genealogy: Genealogy in Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky   Louisiana LaFourche Parish : Louisiana GenWeb Project The Cajuns - genealogy, history and culture   Missouri Missouri Genealogy at StateGenSites   New York New York State Archives Home Page NYGenWeb Main Page   Tennessee Tennessee State Library and Archives History and Genealogy   Texas LoneStar Genealogy - Comprehensive Texas History & Genealogy Web Site Austin County (TX GenWeb) Johnson County, Texas (TXGenWeb site)   Virginia GHOTES of Virginia - Genealogy & History of The Eastern Shore Guide To Virginia Historical Resources Virginia Memory: The Library of Virginia Digital Collections Back to States List                          Top of Page

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