SOME HELPFUL GENEALOGY LINKS
CYNDI’S LIST OF GENEALOGY SITES
ON THE INTERNET
Over 291,000 links for family history - 180+ categories
African American
Genealogy Websites
BlackRefer.com - tons of links to black/african american genealogy
Ancestry.com
“The World’s largest online resource for family history documents and family
trees.”
Explore centuries of resources. Searchable collections of records from around
the world.
An absolutely essential tool for any serious family roots tracing.
Archives™
Find cemetery, death, obituaries, burial, birth, marriage, divorce, and military
records, surname histories and historic vital records from one easy-to-use
search interface.
Ellis Island Passenger search
FamilyHistory.com
Search 26,000 Family History Databases. Explore Birth, Marriage, Death, Census
and Military Records.
FamilySearch database of the Family History Library
* The collection includes over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical
records; 727,000 microfiche;.
* The Ancestral File database contains more than 36 million names that are
linked into families.
* The International Genealogical Index database contains approximately 600
million names of deceased individuals. An addendum to the International
Genealogical Index contains an additional 125 million names. These names have
been patron submitted or extracted from thousands of original birth, christening
and marriage records.
* Records available are from the United States, Canada, the British Isles,
Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
* A majority of the records contain information about persons who lived before
1930.
footnote™
Over 70 million U.S. historical documents
Heritage Quest Online – available free through Newberry and
Chicago Public Libraries
HeritageQuest contains scanned images of all available
U.S. census schedules (1790-1930); over 25,000 scanned books on family and local
history; PERSI, an index to magazine articles in the field of family and local
history; images of selected records from Revolutionary War pension and
bounty-land-warrant application files; images of the registers of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Company; and selected Congressional documents and reports from
the American State Papers and U.S. Serial Set.
HeritageQuest Databases and Search Tips
HeritageQuest FAQ
Jewish Gen
Thousands of databases, research tools, and other resources to help with Jewish
ancestry research and to find family members.
National Archives (U.S.):
Resources for Genealogists
Great Lakes Region
7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL
60629-5898
Newspaper Archive — 200 years of American Newspapers
Online Free Translators:
Yahoo
Babel Fish
Google Translate
PBS “Ancestors”
Great instruction site for beginner genealogy researchers. Includes guides
and videos
WorldVitalRecords.com
A very eclectic collection of documents. A lot more than BMD records.