Family Search
Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) web site. A computerized system of genealogical information that helps researchers identify their ancestors and organize family history information.
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USGenweb
County-by-county access to genealogical information - always an important way to search. Easy to use. Logical
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US Genweb Archives
Actual documents, databases. Also check out Statewide material. Example: USGenWeb Archives – NY- State Files – Prisons
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World Genweb
Wide variety of what is available at each site. Some have volunteers who have packed the site with raw data; others have only minimal information. Can change frequently. Keep checking back. Typical topics included on the sites: queries, surname lists, general information on the county and its resources, e.g. courthouse hours, free look-ups, sometimes how to subscribe to a mail list for that county.
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Rootsweb
A vast clearinghouse of genealogical data. Be careful to enter search info only in the Rootsweb section as others will request payment.
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Worldconnect
Index to thousands of gedcoms, some of which you can download.
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Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild
Listing of ship passenger lists
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FindaGrave.com
A free website listing over 89 million grave records, including many photographs and supplementary information.
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Cyndi’s List
Largest site for finding genealogical web pages by general topics – hundreds of thousands of links listed
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island records from 1892 to 1924
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Castle Garden
Information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened
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Google
Best search engine for the web. Try your names. Put in quotes, add location, to cut down on hits (e.g. “Lucy Keeler” Fremont Ohio)
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Linkpendium
A site which lists web resources organized by state and then county and then by record category.
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Genealogy Resources, by State
The US government's website. Find an A-Z list of some of each state's genealogical resources.
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