http://earlymaine.org/
Early Maine containing many topic links we well as links to county, town, and college repositories around the state. A must for the Maine history traveler and genealogical researcher.
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http://genforum.genealogy.com/
One of the better genealogical forums. Hosted by Genealogy.com. Boasts a good search engine, and the content strings are well-organized and user-friendly.
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http://gesswhoto.com/
Oregon history and genealogy. Beautiful to
look at and full of rich content. A gem of a site.
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http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/
Native American genealogy pages. Access to free and fee-based (Ancestry.com subscription) resources. There is a good alphabetical listing of Indian tribes and nations.
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http://www.afrigeneas.com
AfriGeneas--African-ancestry family research. Slave and plantation records. Search by surname. Essential.
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http://www.ancestry.com
Expensive subscription-based genealogical resources, part of a larger family of commercial genealogical services that includes the fellow membership-only service genealogy.com and the free RootsWeb. One of the very best online genealogical resources. You can search through the U.S. census years by first name, race, birth year, or geographically. Many historical newspapers and books.
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http://www.ancientfaces.com
Wonderful old family photos, family research materials. Search the database or submit your own information and images and try to connect.
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http://www.archives.gov/index.html
The material at the National Archives and Records Administration, "America's national records keeper." Congressional records, presidential libraries, and, most likely, data on your American relatives.
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http://www.bcgcertification.org
Site of the Board for Certification of Genealogists--find a certified genealogist, become certified, or browse a list of online genealogical resources.
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http://www.ccharity.com
Christine's Genealogy Web site. African-American and mixed-race historical and family research. Essential. The archives are a must, as is searching the posts. Check back regularly for the updates, articles, a current events discussion, and book recommendations.
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http://www.deadfred.com/
Check out this fast and free photo archive of
thousands of vintage photographs and try
posting your own historic and personal family
pictures.
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http://www.ebay.com
Try searching on locations, historical periods, book titles, and even surnames here. Artifacts--old photos and school yearbooks, especially--crop up on eBay all the time, and can be very helpful in building lost family history.
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http://www.ellisisland.org
The portal for American immigrant family history research. Search the vast database of passenger arrival records. From the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., New York.
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http://www.familysearch.org/
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has long been involved with genealogy. Now many records, including the 1880 U.S. and 1881 English censuses, are online and free. There's a powerful search engine.
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http://www.frenchcreoles.com/
An informative and fun site on the French
Creoles of America, covering their history,
culture, language, and genealogy. Famous
Creoles include the early jazz great Jelly Roll
Morton and the artist John James Audubon.
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http://www.genealogy.org
Contains a long list of links to many free resources, but is little more than a false front for Ancestry.com.
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http://www.genealogyforum.com/
"The Golden Gate Genealogy Forum" Hosted
by RootsWeb. Search forums by keyword.
Most likely, at least one of your family
surnames will have its own place for
discussion and exchange of information. The
easiest place to get started is the
alphabetized surname message boards at:
http://www.genealogyforum.com/messages/Al
pha.htm.
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http://www.hereditary.us/list_date.htm
The Hereditary Societies community, including an extensive listing of American hereditary societies. Also includes a history of the Society of the Cincinnati, the oldest military hereditary society in the U.S. George Washington was its first president.
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http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
The terrific Making of America digitizes primary
sources relating to America’s social history
from the Antebellum period through
Reconstruction.
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http://www.jewishgen.org/
"The Home of Jewish Genealogy: an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage-- a Living Memorial to the Holocaust."
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http://www.loc.gov
The Library of Congress's Local History & Genealogy Reading Room. Guides, resources, links to Internet sites.
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http://www.newspaperarchive.com
For a fee, you can access and view millions of historical newspaper articles. You can also order birthday newspapers for loved ones.
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http://www.newspaperlinks.com/voyager.cfm
NewsVoyager is a portal leading to links to
local daily newspapers around the United
States. Newspaper wedding and birth
announcements and obituaries can often
provide more in-depth and useful information
than vital records in reconstructing the life
history of an elusive relative or ancestor.
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http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/index.cfm
The genealogy pages at the National Genealogical Society. The nonprofit, fee-for-membership NGS has been the premier organization for family research, from beginning searchers to advanced researchers and scholars, since 1903. It not only sets the standard for documenting family history, but also publishes an invaluable tool to family researching, the NGS Quarterly. If you join just one genealogical society, this one should be it.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/index.html
“Heritage: Civilization and the Jews” is a
terrific companion site to the PBS series of the
same name. The site features a 4,000-year
timeline tracing the origins of the Jewish
people, their movements, their centuries of
persecution, and important events in the
ancient and modern worlds. Check out the
resources section to help enhance your
genealogical and general historical
knowledge of your Jewish ancestors.
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http://www.rootsWeb.com/
Ancestry.com now "supports" the largest and oldest free Internet genealogical resource. It's still free. You have a choice of search engines, RootsWeb's or Ancestry's. RootsWeb's U.S. County/Town search engine is an essential tool. Try the SSDI (Social Security Death Index) to locate and document recently deceased relatives.
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http://www.sar.org/
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). Hereditary society for male descendants of American Revolutionary War soldiers and heroes.
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http://www.theshipslist.com/
Immigration, shipwreck records, passenger lists. Excellent resource for documenting the migration patterns and histories of ancestors.
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http://www.wvculture.org/
The West Virginia Division of Culture and
History. Many genealogical resources for West
Virginians past and present.
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