Some genealogy related sites of interest

Links Sites

Cyndi's List - A much more complete list of links for all thing genealogical than what I have here.

The Federal Web Locator - Find links to various Governmental Agencies on the Web.

Archives and Library Resources - Many links.

Cemetery Interment Lists on the Internet - Many links to cemetery lists online.

Surname Guide - The Family History Show Surname Guide to Genealogy Websites on the World Wide Web.


Miscellaneous Links

#GenealogyForum - Homepage for a chat room dedicated to genealogy, including mIRC setup info and a list of other genealogy chat rooms.

GenForum - Forums for many surnames filled with queries from people researching those surnames.

Census Online - Links to Census Sites on the Web.

Cimorelli Imigration Manifests Online - Many immigrant passenger lists.

Genealogical CD's - List of people willing to do lookups of names listed on many FTM CD's.

ROOTS-L Library - A collection of text files and GEDCOM's from ROOTS-L.

Genealogy Articles & Files - A collection of text files and GEDCOM's, including royalty, Presidental, and fictional GEDCOM's.

Trace the Origin of Your Surname - Allows you to look up some places of origin for many surnames and also sells histories and coats of arms for those names.

Hughesthe Origin Rare Newspapers - Purchase copies of old newspapers telling about historic events.


Royalty, Nobility, Celebrities

Descent from Adam - A huge set of files showing descent charts from Adam to ancient families, then to royal families, then to the host of that site.

David Nash Ford's History Home Page - A site with both history and genealogy from medieval times.

Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web - A links list of royal and noble data sites: including Royal Genealogies, Presidential Genealogies, and Royal Descents of Famous People.

Harvard Deeds Collection - A long list of medieval deeds.


Search Engines (for data not found with other search engines)

Beaucoup - A large list of search engines.

DejaNews - Search the newsgroup archives.

NARA Archival Information Locator - Search the National Archives and Records Administrations.

Rootsweb Surname List - Search for other researchers looking for the same families.

Rootsweb Mailing Lists - Search the archives of most RootsWeb mailing lists for posts pertaining to your families.

US Geographic Names Information System - Search for additional information about any geographic location anywhere in the US.

Bureau of Land Management - Eastern States, General Land Office - Search for information on official land patents.

The Library of Virginia Digital Collections - Search for manuscripts, Colonial Records, Photographs, Pay Rolls, Muster Rolls, Wills, Court Records in the Library of Virginia Archives.

Ancestry - Search for the Ancestry World Tree of user submitted GEDCOM files or the SSDI for free, or subscribe to access many more types of records.

Gendex - Search for online genealogy databases.

USGenWeb Archives - Search for birth/death/burial/will/marriage/census/patent information on the USGenWeb archives.

Making of America - Search for your family in this digital library of 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles.

GenServ - Family History - A subscription site for downloading GEDCOM databases from other researchers.

VA Land Office Patents and Grands Collection - Search for information about land patents and grants in Virginia.

American Life Histories - Search for life histories from the Federal Writers' Project (1936-1940).

Internet FamilyFinder - Search for your family on FTM Web Pages or on some FTM CD's.

FamilyFinder Index - Search to see if your family is on any of the FTM CD's.

St. Catherine's Marriage Index - Records of civil registration of post-1837 births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales.

Vital Records Information - US - Information on where to find vital records for each state, territory, and county of the United States.



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