Amy's recommended general
genealogy links 
=Best Bets
Learn
- Mankato Family History Center web page
- Beginner's tips from Rootsweb's Guide
- General genealogy tips from Rootsweb's Guide
- Genealogy class pages from Genealogy.com online university
FamilySearch Research Wiki- 5 Minute Genealogy videos
- By
country or By
topic
- Old familysearch Research outlines (pdf files) via BYU
Magazines, Podcasts, Videos, etc. links
from Cyndi's List
Finding Relatives
- Posting surnames you are researching:
- Regional pages through USGenWeb or WorldGenWeb
- Post questions to others researching similar locations or surnames
- Tips for writing good queries
- Post to regional/surname websites at
- USGenWeb -
also look here for transcribed data & links
- WorldGenWeb - also look here for transcribed data & links
- Rootsweb
mail lists
- Rootsweb message boards (forums)
- Genforum -- Apparently
genealogy.com is read-only now (another death by ancestry.com)
- Search family trees from other researchers for your ancestors (free databases only)
- Rootsweb's WorldConnect -- a huge collection of trees
- LDS familysearch databases (Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File,...)
- Family Tree Searcher (searches 5 family tree collection sites)
- Search for living people (telephone or e-mail) - note: these are not all-inclusive
Genealogy Databases
- Large Genealogy Database Sites & Resources
- more LDS Family History Library Resources
- FamilySearch
Databases
- LDS
Family History Library
Catalog (to order microfilms & fiche)
- Subscription sites
- Search Ancestry.com
resources (available free at Family History Centers & some public
libraries)
- Several subscription sites available FREE at Family History Centers
- Fold3.com with Fold3 database list
- World Vital Records
- British records at FindMyPast.com
- Swedish parish records at ArkivDigital (very complete coverage thru late 1800s, some later)
- ...
- Search Genealogy.com resources
- Request lookup from a volunteer (volunteers are NOT the authors)
- US Census sites
- census
images
§ FamilySearch censuses for any country
§ Ancestry.com: subscription (or free at FHCs & selected libraries)
- hit-or-miss transcriptions:
- Censuslinks.com (some with images)
- Vital Records & associated data
- see FamilySearch (vital records), Ancestry.com
- also see location specific sites
- Webpages of links for various US vitals
at deathindexes.com
- Vitals MAY have been transcribed -- see regional sites at USGenWeb
- Where to write for vital records: Select a state and then a county
- Social Security Death Index is free again at familysearch.org
- Cemeteries:
- FindAGrave.com
- BillionGraves.com
- Military graves from Veteran's Affairs
- Immigration - all passenger list sites/searches are works in progress
- Links for Passenger Lists and Naturalization Records at DeathIndexes.com
- search Castle Garden (NY) immigration records
- Online Digitized Books
- Search Google Books
(click "Full View Only" for viewing only full-access books, if
desired)
- Cyndi's
list section on Online Books
- Newspapers
- Search various news archives with Google News Archive (includes historical papers)
- Search Fold3.com, World Vital Records newspaper collections (those requiring subscription free at Family History Centers)
- Search Chronicling America digitized papers from Library of Congress
- See what newspapers were published when at Chronicling America Newspaper Directory
- FultonHistory -- may be focused on NY but definitely has non-NY papers
- Sites that catalog online newspapers by state/country
- Links to some online historical newspapers (some free, some subscription) - also links for city directories
Wikipedia
links to online newspaper archives
Online Genealogy Toolkit
- Maps
- Current: MapQuest
- Current: GoogleMaps
- Historical: American Memory
- Genealogy
link sites
- GenealogyInTime magazine top 100 genealogy websites
- Family Tree Magazine's 101 Best Genealogy websites categorized (lots of pop-ups here)
- U.S. genealogy links at linkpendium.com
- Cyndi's List (not for the faint-hearted: thousands of categorized links)
Location specific links
- Calendar for a given month in given year
- Ecclesiastical calendar -- use for church records that list dates in reference to church holidays
- Calculate birth date based on age at death
- Timelines
- US Historical Event timeline
- World Historical Event timeline
- OurTimeLines
- General Search routines
- Search Rootsweb's pages with Search Thingy or MetaSearch
- Search
the whole web with Google
- Resource Organizations:
- Libraries
· MNLink
· WorldCat
- Federation of Genealogical Societies
- Genealogy/Historical Societies - webpages (through ObitLinksPage.com)
- Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
- Foreign language
dictionaries & translators
- LDS
genealogy
word lists
- Online translators for text & webpages
- Google Translate
has 30+ languages
- Word2word.com dictionaries
- YourDictionary.com foreign language dictionaries and language courses
- Forms to download
- Blank fan chart
and other forms
- Download Status List
Form
Making your genealogy information available for others to see
***** Please protect the privacy of living people ! *****
- Your data file of families (GEDCOM file from your genealogy program) -- FREE
- Create
a new tree at Rootsweb's WorldConnect
or update
-- has great flexibility to change/add to/remove at any time
- see also Share Your Family History
- Ancestry.com -- use free account to create online tree either interactively or via GEDOM
- FamilySearch Family Tree -- (free account) either enter people individually (after logging in) or see important info on uploading GEDCOMs with this site
- CAUTION -- trees on this site are linked with trees from other submitters
- Your own FREE genealogy webpages
- Rootsweb's freepages
- Beginner's guide to using Rootsweb's freepages
- File
sharing
- ? I'm still looking for an alternative to
MyFamily.com {another death by ancestry.com)
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