The US GenWeb Project
The Genealogy Home Page
Library of Congress - the most well-developed historical and informational government website in the US.  You can access incredible materials created under the WPA Project at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html.

By simply connecting with the Web site, you can read the text.   However, with a little additional effort, you can download a couple of software programs that allow you to:   (1) display the text in SGML format and (2) view the images that are imbedded.   Even without these program enhancements though, just reading the text manuscripts is a wonderful experience.   The materials are arranged by state.   You can view a map with the states highlighted and then click on the state whose stories you would like to read.   A list of the stories' titles is listed.   You can then click on a story and it will be downloaded for you to view.   The stores are typically between 2,500 and 15,000 words in length.   There is also a search facility available that allows you to search for keywords or names.

As a bonus, from the "Voices of the Thirties" collection, there are some digitized sound files containing portions of some interviews that were captured on tape recorders.   Depending on your Web browser, you may or may not be able to listen to these recordings.   All of these materials provide an insight into the life and times of American citizens during the Depression.   I urge you to partake of this wonderful feast at the Library of Congress Web site.   Regardless of whether you find an ancester here or not, these stories weave a wonderful tapestry of historical insight for you.   Read a couple every day.   I hope you'll be enjoying them as much as I am.   Happy Hunting!   George   Copyright 1998 George G. Morgan and copied from Ancestry Daily News.   This column was originally published in the Genealogy Forum on America Online - Thanks George!!!!
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation Website - This site provides live database and image access to more than two million Federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States dating back to 1820.   This site offers researchers a source of information on the initial transfer of land title from the Federal Government to individuals.   In addition to verifying title transfer, this information will allow the researcher to place an individual (patentee) at a specific location (legal land description) in time (signature date).   These records can be accessed at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov.  Although the definition for "Eastern Public Land State" isn't provided, the states included are:   Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.   This site is rather amazing in that it is free, easy to access, contains valuable information, and is run by the Government.   borrowed from [email protected] mail list - author unknown
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - exactly what the title implies ...
Census Links

• Census Bureau Home Page - provides on-line access to our data, publications, products, and programs
  
• US Census Bureau Home Page
  
• Census - Genealogy Online
  
• FreeCEN- UK Census Online Project
  
• Census Links - a directory of links to census, marriage, birth, and death record transcriptions, mainly in the United States

Genealogical Societies

Genealogical Websites of Societies and CIGs
National and Regional Societies

• National Genealogical Society (NGS) - 1999 Conference in the States - Richmond, VA -- 12-15 May 1999.   NGS and the Virginia Genealogical Society invites you to plan your vacation to visit the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the new Virginia State Library, and other research opportunities and - at the same time - sharpen your research skills and reinforce your knowledge in various areas by attending lectures and workshops.   NGS members automatically receive the conference registration brochure with the November/December NGS Newsletter; however, nonmembers may receive the brochure (as soon as it is available) by contacting NGS at: NGS '99 Conference Registration Brochure, 4527 17th Street North, Arlington, VA 22207-2399, Phone: (703) 525-0050; Toll Free (800) 473-0060; Fax (703) 525-0052; e-mail [email protected], or NGS HomePage
  
• New England Genealogical and Historical Society (NEHGS), 101 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116-3007 (617) 836-5740 [email protected]
  

State and Local Societies

• Maine Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 221, Farmington, ME 04938-0221
  
• Maine Historical Society, Center for Maine History, 485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101 (207) 774-1822 [email protected].  Genealogy Page
  
• Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.
  
• New Hampshire Historical Society Library Collections
  

Lineage (and related) Societies

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR)
  
• Sons of the American Revolution (SAR)
  
• Caleb Johnson's Mayflower Page - the most complete Internet site for Mayflower history and genealogy.  Contains an extensive collection of valuable historical and genealogical data about the Mayflower, as well as online databases of Mayflower pilgrims.  Not exactly a lineage society page, but absolutely one of the greatest sources of Mayflower information.
  
• The General Society of Mayflower Descendants - The Official Mayflower page.
  
• America's HomePage for Mayflower Descendants - Official tourguide, historical references, and commercial business exchange for Plymouth, MA and the surrounding area.  Also contains other interesting links to genealogical resources and has a Mayflower bulletin board to contact other Mayflower descendants.
  

Surname Lists

Genealogy Gateway to the Web(TM) - Allen Lacy's links to an extraordinary number of places of interest.
Genealogy's Most Wanted List - check and see if someone else is researching your lines
Surname Helper - search for a surname
GenForum - Forum finder results
Surname Springboard - Recently taken on by Allen Lacy; an excellent list of surnames.
Roots Surname List Name Finder - A collection of valuable genealogical resources dedicated to supporting and archiving the ROOTS-L mailing list and other such Internet resources, as well as making large amounts of genealogical data available online at minimal cost.
Gene Stark's Gendex Home Page - contains several items of interest for the WWW genealogist and the Gendex WWW genealogical index that currently comprises over two million names - online and searchable.  Users may also submit their own GEDCOM file to the index.
The Surname Genealogy Web Project
Family Tree Maker
On-Line Immigrant Ancestors - The place to look if you have ancestors who sailed into a US port.  A well-laid-out index guides you to precise details of names, the port where they landed, and the ship that brought them here.
Kindred Konnections Genealogy and Family History - an Internet library and database center revolving around a large, user-submitted, lineage-linked pedigree file that allows users to search the database for a monthly fee.
First Name Basis - Since family names tend to be much more important to genealogists than given names, very few name indexes are organized on a first name basis.  This is unfortunate for some genealogists, as first name searches are useful in attempting to trace the maiden names of female ancestors and in searching for ancestors with very distinctive given names.  First Name Basis is designed to assist those using this creative technique to locate the missing branches in their family tree.

Family History Library and its Centers

The Family History Library - The LDS Church home page; wonderful site to find out what's available at the library in Salt Lake City, as well as information on other aspects of genealogy and the LDS church.
More FHL Information - by Debbie Wafford
Even More FHL Information - from Utah Valley PAF Users Group
Salt Lake City - Here We Come! - a most unique page with good advice on how to prepare to do research in Salt Lake City
Family History Centers - from Deseret Book Company.  This one is my favorite; it gives addresses and phone numbers, and is easy to find what you're looking for.
Family History Centers - from the Genealogy Home Page
LDS Research Outline for Maine
Family History Centers - from Everton Publishers
GEDCOM and IGI Downloads Explained - The Moonrakers Website has published online an excellent simplified explanation of GEDCOM and detailed instructions on how to download an IGI name search list from Family Search.  Both these articles are well worth the time to read and extremely helpful if you are involved in downloading files and information from Family Search.  You can find both of these articles at http://www.moonrakers.com/gedcoms/gedexpl.htm.

Military (Revolutionary War, Civil War, etc.)

Cyndi's List - the best source for military links
Medal of Honor Recipients Buried in Maine
US GenWeb Archives Pensions Project
The History Net
Revolutionary War

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) - a nonprofit, women's organization for the descendants of individuals who aided in achieving American independence.
  
• Maine State Organization DAR
  
• National Society Sons of the American Revolution - Fraternal society organized in 1889 for the male lineal descendants of patriots who served to promote the goals of freedom and independence in the American Revolution.
  
• Maine Society SAR
  
• The American Revolution Interface - the official National Park Service American Revolution Web Site.
  
• American Revolutionary War History Resources
  
• A Guide to the American Revolution on the Web
  
• American Revolutionary War
  
• American Revolution - general information sites, interactive activities, patriotic symbols, resources, revolutionary figures
  American Revolutionary War Web Site - primarily a site for organizations involved in the hobby of re-enacting the Revolutionary war, but extremely interesting.
  
• American Revolution Resources - dedicated to organizations involved in re-enacting battles from the war.
  

Civil War

• " Civil War Records - Maine State Archives
  
• Civil War Soldier's and Sailor's System - sponsored by the National Park Service, this site describes the Civil War Soldier's and Sailor's System project, an ambitious attempt to index some five million military service records from the Civil War.
  
• Civil War Links from Dakota State University.
  
• Civil War Rosters
  
• Maine in the Civil War
  
• Union Regimental Index: Maine
  
• Paul's Civil War Page
  
• American Civil War
  
• The Civil War Home Page.
  
• The American Civil War Homepage
  
• The Civil War Home Page - dedicated to the participants, both North and South, in the great American Civil War 1861-1865
  
• The American Civil War Home Page - Shotgun's Civil War site - including overviews of many different aspects of the war, biographies, battle summaries, photographs, selected official records, etc.
  
• Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page - 1118 photographs from the Library of Congress; a searchable and browsable database (includes a timeline of the war).
  
• Welcome to the US Civil War Center! at Louisiana State University - a clearninghouse for all sorts of information about the Civil War.  Many links of interest to Civil War researchers, as well as a section dealing with researching the lives of individuals who lived in the Civil War era.
  
• Texas State Library Genealogy Collection - primarily outlines the genealogical collection of the Texas State Library; however, the site also contains an online searchable index to some 54,000 Confederate pension applications.
  

Military Units

• 1st Maine Calvary
  
• 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
  
• 3rd Maine Regiment - Company Abr>
• 3rd Maine Regiment - Company F
  
• 11th Maine Infantry Volunteers
  
• 13th Maine Volunteer Infantry, Companies D and F
  
• 20th Maine Infantry, Company B
  
• 20th Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, Company E
  
• 28th Maine Infantry Volunteers Index
  
• Summary Unit Histories and Related Materials from Maine State Archives

Online Sources for French-Canadian Research

The Southern California Genealogical Society - French-Canadian workshops five times/year; one of the largest collections of French Canadian research resources in the western U.S.
French Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut
French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
NW Territory, Canadian and French Heritage Center
American Canadian Genealogical Society
American French Genealogical Society
Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society
John P. DuLong's Homepage - Dr. DuLong's areas of genealogical expertise include basic Acadian and French Canadian research, French military, Catholic, and fur trade records, and French nobility research and heraldry, and he is a published author of several genealogical articles.
Yvon L. Cyr's Homepage - Ms. Cyr is the author of "In Search of Our Acadian Roots."
Denis Beauregard's Homepage - includes several important ongoing projects including corrections and additions to Jette (1983).

Websites for Reunions and Related Activities

ReunionNet - the global reunion resource.   Information, a shopping mall, guidance office, bulletin board, and you can post your own home page for your reunion.
ReuNet - the reunion network.   A mutual-consent international reunion registry that matches individuals searching for each other.   Maintains 300,000 active current searches and receives an average of 5000 hits/day.
Reunions R Us - new this year!!!
Zip Codes - let the US Postal Service help you update and maintain your reunion mailing list(s) with Zip+4 codes and other address information.
Great Reunions - commercial firm with many reunion services.
Reunions Magazine
Reunion articles
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Biography Assistant - to interview family members at the reunion.
Time Capsule to fill for future generations.
Addresses - to help you find those individuals.

Netiquette Resources

Netiquette - the official standard on netiquette.
Introduction to Netiquette
Emily Post News
Netiquette Book
About Spamming
Learn About Hoaxes
Copyrighting on the Internet
A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources - by Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger

Using Maps in Genealogical Research

U.S. Gazetteer prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey - find a place name that you can't find on a map, atlas, or gazetteer.
Defense Mapping Agency - prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey - contact for foreign place names.
Online U.S. Gazetteer
Thesaurus of Geographical Names
1895 Atlas Project
1895 Rand McNally map of Maine
U.S. Topographical Maps
Animap Plus - county boundary historical atlas.   This commercial firm also sells reproductions of historical maps.
Sanborn Maps of Maine
Historic USGS Maps of Maine - Alphabetic Town Listing
DeLorme Maps
John R. Bochert Map Library - descriptions of many major map collections, contains links to most of the major map libraries throughout the world.
Ancestry Hometown Page - includes some "free" and subscription maps
Online Mapping Sites

1. MapBlast
   
2. MapQuest
   
3. UPenn

Miscellaneous

Cyndi's List Cyndi's index to genealogically-related sites is the largest on the Internet  She has identified many meaningful and useful sites in over sixty separate categories.  The list is always growing and is one of the most current and regularly updated sites available.  You'll find categories for all 50 US states as well as Canadian provinces and foreign locales, personal home pages, records types, various ethnic and religious groups, and categories for several special topics of genealogical interest.
Genealogist Index to the WWW
The Genealogy Calendar - maintained by Mike St. Clair
Ancestry Hometown - From humble beginnings in early 1996, this site has grown to become one of the largest storehouses of genealogical data on the Internet.  Contains a huge collection of online, searchable genealogical databases, Social Security Death Master File, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), a Geographic Reference Library, and several other collections, as well as in-depth "how to" articles, and a free daily e-mail newsletter.  Most databases are available to search for free for a specific time period, afterwhich individuals can subscribe for a monthly fee.
Sites with Genealogical Source Material - Alan Tupman has created this resource as an alternative to the majority of genealogy sites by bringing genealogists and data closer together with a minimum of ads, images, and ego.  One of the site's most tempting resources is the list of links to over 100 ship passenger lists that are organized chronologically and by country of arrival.  Lists of passengers from Ireland to the US are particularly abundant, and have their own separate list.
The American Genealogical Lending Library (AGLL)
Everton's Genealogical Helper - a combination of searchable databases (both free and subscription), genealogical research tips, and online education.
Historical Ink
Hearthstone Books
Heritage Books
Genealogy Resources on the Internet
GENDEX: WWW Genealogical Index
The Ship "Mary and John" Information Center.
Eastman's On-Line Genealogy Newsletter.
Repositories of Primary Sources - sponsored by the University of Idaho, lists almost 2,000 websites around the world which describe holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.
Library Servers via WWW - sponsored by the University at Berkeley, lists almost 1500 library catalogs accessible through the Internet.
National Biography Index - a user-submitted index to biographies on the WWW currently containing links to over 100 individuals.

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