http://www.cyndislist.com/beginner.htm
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/links/c/c-how-to-and-help,beginner-guides.html
Tips & Tricks for the Beginner
http://www.kerchner.com/gentips.htm
Cook Memorial Public Library District: Beginner's Guides to Genealogy (plus links to other genealogy-related information).
Focus is on the LDS Family History Centers and how they can help the beginner.
http://www.cooklib.org/Genealogy/1beggen.htm
Very basic information at a bargain price.
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
http://www.familytreemaker.com/university.html
Newsletter also available.
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/lessons.htm
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/main.htm
http://www.geneasearch.com/beginner.htm
New England Historical Genealogical Society
http://www.newenglandancestors.org/learningsection/index.asp
Online class (tuition charged).
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/edu.htm
These lessons have lots of graphics.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/
Useful weekly articles by William Dollarhide (archives of past editions).
http://www.genealogybulletin.com/
A group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
http://www.usgenweb.org/
If it's genealogy and it's on the Web, it's probably on Cyndi's List!
http://www.cyndislist.com
Where do I begin? It's a question that new users often ask when faced with all the options available at RootsWeb.
This page was designed to give you a brief overview of the many resources you will discover at RootsWeb, so you can maximize your research.
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/start.html
Commercial site with some free databases and subscription access to more.
http://www.ancestry.com/
http://www.familysearch.org
http://www.familytreemaker.com/glc_deny.html
Library of Congress preservation tips.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/careothr.html
A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived.
[An interesting look at the life of a colonial mid-wife, based on her handwritten diary. Beautifully done site.]
http://dohistory.com/home.html
A very useful site, updated frequently.
http://www.gpiag-asthma.org/drpsmith/amt1.htm
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/ri.html
Links to sites containing Rhode Island genealogy information.
http://www.oocities.org/SunsetStrip/Balcony/1123/rhodeisland.html
Genealogy: Rhode Island (Everton's Genealogy Books)
Link to Rhode Island genealogy books sold by Everton Publishers.
www.oocities.org/Heartland/Estates/2755/state_rhodeisland.htm
GenForum Rhode Island Genealogy Forum
Meeting place for Rhode Island researchers. Also general genealogy subjects of interest.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/ri/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb
Rhode Island Vital Records Links
http://vitalrec.com/rilinks.html
Features a directory of Rhode Island societies that provides contact details and links to their homepage. Includes quick facts on the state.
http://www.daddezio.com/society/hill/SH-RI-NDX.html
Rhode Island, Rhode Island Coastal, Rhode Island Government, Secretary of State, Providence Plantations, Public Information, LORI, Library of Rhode Island.
http://www.wsbe.org/Education/Pointers/rhode.html
DistantCousin.com - Rhode Island Genealogy Resources
Also connect to an assortment of resources including mailing lists, repositories, societies, and database projects.
http://www.distantcousin.com/States/RI.html
Cemetery records of Rhode Island.
http://www.interment.net/us/ri
Genealogy Helplist
The Genealogy Helplist consists of volunteers who are willing to help others by looking up specific items at institutions near them, or help supply other information easily accessible to them. If you want to make a request of one of these volunteers, please read the instructions. If you would like to be a volunteer, visit the page you want to join and follow the maintainer's instructions on how to join.
http://www.posom.com/hl
http://users.ids.net/~ricon/rigs.html
Genealogy Pages: The World's Premier Genealogy Portal: Regional : USA : Rhode Island
Genealogy Pages Resources Categories: Bristol County (1)Kent County (1)Newport County (2) Providence...
http://www.genealogypages.com/Regional/USA/Rhode_Island
West Warwick Public Library Times Name Index: The Kent County Daily Times and The Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times.
http://seq.clan.lib.ri.us/wwa/tni/tni.htm
Cyndi's List - U.S. - Rhode Island
http://www.cyndislist.com/ri.htm
Learn about this company's history and get details about the reenactment group's upcoming events. Find a chronology, genealogy, and roster.
http://www.oocities.org/BourbonStreet/3604/
The Family History Library Rhode Island Research Outline
The Family History Library has many of the records described in this outline. The Family History Library's major holdings include cemetery, census, church, land, military, probate, town, and vital records as well as newspaper notices of marriages and deaths, city directories, genealogical collections, and periodicals.
http://www.familysearch.org/sg/Rhode_Island.html
Includes eight generations from Isaiah and Elizabeth (Tefft) Green. Isaiah Green (1771-1841) was the son of Joshua Green of Charlestown, RI; Elizabeth Tefft (1774-1854) was the daughter of George5 (James4, John3, Samuel2, John1) Tefft of South Kingstown, RI. Isaiah and Elizabeth (Tefft) Green had seven children, five of whom married into early Rhode Island and Connecticut families of Miner, Clark(e), Noyes, Denison and Perry. The book includes detailed information about 979 of their descendants, female as well as male lines. It follows a modified Register format. There are 98 photos (the earliest is from 1849), over 120 newspaper articles, information about military service, tombstone inscriptions, and even a wedding invitation or two! It also includes the 1752 will of Isaiah's grandfather, John Greene of West Greenwich, RI. There is an every name index, endnote documentation of sources, and bibliography. The information is largely from primary sources. Females are indexed under both maiden and married names. 736 pages, hardcover, printed by Gateway, 6 in. by 9 in., and costs $40, which represents only the cost of printing, packaging, and postage. Contact author Judi Watson to purchase.
Used Genealogy Books and Reprints, Local History of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and New England.
http://broadviewbooks.com/
Genealogy Books and CDs specializing in New England, Massachusetts and Essex County MA. Many at less than publisher's list.
http://www.hertge.com/
Subscription library, but you can search the card file free.
http://www.heritagebooks.com/library/
Established in 1996 by Jeannette Holland Austin, author of over fifty published genealogy books. Currently, there are over 5,000 genealogy books listed on this Web site.
http://www.genealogy-books.com/books/rhodeisland.html
http://www.sleeperco.com
SLEEPER BOOKS is a genealogical publishing company specializing in Washington County, NY, northeastern NY -- many Tefft families moved to this area of New York -- and the Revolutionary War.
Appleton's Books
Rare, Used & Antiquarian Books
www.appletons.com/books/homepage.html
World's largest network of independent booksellers." Rare, used and out-of-print books.
http://www.abebooks.com
http://www.bibliofind.com
The books: "A Partial Record of the Descendants of John Tefft..." (see above list) Maria E (Maxon) Tifft 1896
"The Descendants of John Tefft, 1614-1676," Rachel Saul Tefft 1997
Crandall genealogy "Elder John Crandall of RI and His Descendants," by J. C. Crandall.
History of Hingham. MA Vol II& III which contains an enormous amount of info on some of the early Spragues in Hingham - some of those lines eventually married into the Teffts in RI.
The Congdon genealogy written by Earl P. Crandall, one of the Carpenter genealogies (from the Providence families) and the Hazard genealogy.
In addition to my books, I have a good collection of FTM CDs including the 1850 Mass census microfilms, the CD of "Genealogies of Rhode Island Familles" (FTM 180) and two of the Mayflower CDs as well as a copy of Early Records of Plymouth Colony.
I can also do town hall lookups in SK on a limited basis - probably once a month.( Any lookups I do from old town records are transcribed by hand since photocopying can damage the records.)
I live close to the Carlsbad, CA Library, which has a very good NE genealogy collection and can do limited lookups in hard-to-find books.
Elizabeth (c1703-)
Samuel (24 February 1705-c1773)
John (27 December 1706-1741)
Joseph (8 January 1710-)
Daniel (10 April 1712-)
Sarah (14 February 1715-1794)
Jonathan (18 October 1718-1751)
or any of their children...
Copies of my Master's thesis, "The Tefft Family and the Narragansett Controversy-A Window to the Creation of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," copyright 1998, are available for $25.00 postpaid at:
PO Box 734
W. Kingston RI 02892
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