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Peace River and District Genealogical Society

Useful Links

To reduce the repetition of work and server space, these links containing useful information for researchers in the Peace River area (and others) provide you with plenty of options.

If anyone comes across urls that would be helpful listed here, please email the Web Designer and they will be added.

 

 

Alberta Genealogical Society

Alberta Gen Web

Peace Gen Web

East Peace Gen Web

Fairview Gen Web

Grande Prairie Genealogical Society

Global Surname Search

Peace Query Board

 Alberta Family History Society

 AGHS Genealogical Projects Registry

 Alberta Family History Society Projects

Historical Society of Alberta

 

http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/toc.aspx?id=8204 Peace River Remembers-local history book *new
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=757910 Bricks Hill, Berwyn and Beyond *new
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=863065 A general history Grimshaw, Peace & Battle River Prairie *new
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/index.html  Local and Alberta Histories Collection online-very useful *new
Sites containing information about conducting Oral Interviews reccommended by the Family  Tree Magazine March 2008
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/oralhistory/a/interview.htm
http://dohistory.org/ is the main page
http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html
http://life.familyeducation.com/family/genetics/29663.html
http://www.baylor.edu/oral_history/index.php?id=23566
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/jan08/interview.asp
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/mar08/5interviewbasics.asp
http://www.looking4kin.com/  Looking 4 Kin Genealogy Links & Chat

Automated Genealogy
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/
Joe Beine's Links
http://www.genealogybranches.com/
Quaker Corner
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~quakers/
Quaker Locater
http://www.quakermeetings.com/
About.Com  links including obituaries
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/obituaries/
Death Indexes
http://www.deathindexes.com/
Canadian Genealogy resource
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html
GeneaNet for European Genealogy
http://www.geneanet.org/
American Database collections
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/collsize/collsize?summ=all
Vital Search
http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com/
American Land Records
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
DNA Database
http://www.familytreedna.com/
Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/
have subscriptions for users to:

 * Ancestry.com
http://ancestry.com/
 * America's GenealogyBank
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=GBNL
* Footnote.com
http://www.footnote.com/
 * HeritageQuestOnline.com
http://heritagequestonline.com/
* NewEnglandAncestors.org
http://newenglandancestors.org/
* ProQuest Obituaries
http://obituaries.proquest.com


Books We Own
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~bwo/
Translations at Babel Fish
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Free Translation.Com
http://www.freetranslation.com/
Roots Television-genealogy stories
http://rootstelevision.com/
GenealogyBank.com with Family Chronicle magazine
http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html
Family History Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/
GPS Visualizer: Do-It-Yourself Mapping
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/
Palaeography is the study of old handwriting.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
Family Search-home of the LDS site
http://www.familysearch.org/
Ancestry.com info again available to users at the Family History
Centers. Got to Family Search and click on Library and Regional Centers
Get Ancestry.com access--13 cities only
--no benefit to us but may be some day!
**Note***News Releases Archives contains a listing of new data bases, etc.


The sites below are partnering with the LDS FHC for expanded databases.
I don't know if they also will have access limited to a few special FHC or if all will get access, couldn't find that info.

One Great Family
http://www.onegreatfamily.com/
kindredkonnections
http://www.kindredkonnections.com/
Heritage Quest Research Library
http://www.hqrl.com/
WorldVitalRecords.com
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/
More passenger Lists http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html

 

 

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