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genealogy

Sailor: HeritageQuest Online
    This is the one I was telling you about - you can get to census images from here - just put in your BCPL library card number
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
    This is Cyndi's list - you can spend hours here finding links.  Many of the links below I found through her page.  She's got them really well organized as well.
Linkpendium Homepage
     This one is like Cyndi's list - just a compendium of links.  I haven't checked it out much.
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
    This is the Mormon church.  Some good stuff here.
Rootsweb
    A great place to start.  And go down to Mailing Lists and join a bunch.  Start with ROOTS-L.  I'm also subscribed to every list that is a surname that I'm looking at as well as many of the lists from Maryland.
A Family History Questionnaire
     This is a questionnaire someone made up that is a good guide for interviewing older relatives.
City Directories - Baltimore, Maryland
    Lists locations of city directories for Baltimore.  I think the main home page of this one has lists for all major cities.
The 1864 Baltimore City Directory Project
    Transcription of the 1864 Balto city directory
Genealogy Blog
    Interesting stories, tips, etc.  I usually just scan through it.  I've found a few good things, but not much.
Shirley Hornbeck's This and That Genealogy Tips
    More tips, tricks - probably good for you to read through as a beginner. 
The Inflation Calculator
    Interesting to see how much the $24,000 my grandfather paid for his house in 1962 is worth in today's dollars ($138,000), especially since he wrote a check for the full price of the house.
Special Collections, Langsdale Library
     I cannot remember what this one is.  I'm sure it's useful, since I bookmarked it :)

 


Graveyards & Cemeteries - obviously, I've got a lot from MD cemeteries, these may or may not help you

The Graveyards of Northern Baltimore County
Loudon Park National Cemetery
Sacred Savings - Encouraging Historical Preservation & Restoration of Sacred Burial Sites in Maryland
Antique and Modern Commemorative FlagHolders & Plaques Found in Cemeteries
Loudon Park, Baltimore Co., MD


MD State archives

Maryland State Archives Home Page
     If you find that you have ancestors from MD, this is a great site.  Basically you can find out which microfilms you need to look at before you go to the archives.  It saves a little time when you've got a head start like that.  If you find you want to go to the Archives, I'm coming down around Labor Day and could go with you probably.
Archives of Maryland Online
    This is stuff from the Archives that they've actually scanned the original info in and posted it online.  So you can find some actual information here.
Archives of Maryland Online city directories
MARYLAND INDEXES (Death Record, BC, Index) Maryland State Archives
Funeral Home Records - Maryland State Archives
BALTIMORE CITY ARCHIVES (City Papers, Index) Maryland State Archives
    The four above are some specific sites within the Archives that I've used more than once, so I bookmarked them to make it easier to get to.


genweb - the USGenWeb is a nationwide project made up mostly of donated information.  Some states/cities have lots of info, some have very little.  start at https://sites.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/, which is the home page for USGenWeb.  All the others below can be gotten to from that page

Baltimore County MDGenWeb Archives
USGenWeb Archives Census Project; Census Images Table of Contents - Massachusetts
Baltimore City GenWeb page
MDGenWeb: Maryland USGenWeb Genealogy Project
WorldGenWeb Project
Balto County GenWeb


Vital Records

Anybirthday.com Birthdate Search Engine
     Put your own name in and then wonder how they got your info.  OK, so not your name, but try Ray's (I tried it) and mine.....
Social Security Death Index Interactive Search
    Check any relatives who have died since about 1965 in this index.  You can get their SSN, birthdate, death date if their death was reported to the SSA.
Prince Georges County Marriages
Baltimore County Obituaries- 1890
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
    A bunch of immigration lists that have been transcribed.  There's lots here.
Life Events Home
Obituary Search Portal and Newspaper Obituary Links
St. Louis Public Library: St. Louis Obituary Index 1944 S - Z
Obituary Depot: Submitting Obituaries
Ships' Passenger Lists to Maryland Before 1820
VitalSearch-Worldwide.com:State Search Portal
SAMPUBCO vital record indexes
NaturalizationRecords.com: Passport Records
FREE Genealogy Request | Everton's Computerized "Roots" Cellar, 1640-1990 Family Queries
    This one's interesting.  They'll do one lookup per day per researcher, free.  I haven't used it yet.


census stuff

Genealogy.com: Census Record Abstracts
Ancestry.com - Census Forms
USGenWeb Census Project - Volunteer Information
USGenWeb Census Project - Volunteer Information
     I'm signed up to transcribe one district worth of the 1920 census in Baltimore.  It's going to take a while....
Census Online
Online International Census Records & Indexes | Ireland, Scotland, Britain, Canada, Scandinavia
Census Tools Electronic Spreadsheets


Surnames

Fluid Dynamics Search Engine: twelbeck
FREE Genealogy Resources and Surname Databases
RootsWeb Surname List - Search 



photos

AncientFaces
Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos


historical societies

Baltimore County Genealogical Society
The Maryland Historical Society -- Home of the Star Spangled Banner


wars/military

Michael John Neill-World War I Draft Card Samples
National WWII Memorial
Military Records: Online Searchable Military Indexes & Databases


maps

Home Page - The National Atlas of the United States of America
TerraServer 6.0 Homepage
    TerraServer has aerial images of the whole US.  MapQuest used to have them, and on there I was able to zoom in far enough to see what cars were in my parents' driveway the day they took the photo.  Scary


html/url helps

Free HTML Pedigree Chart
Add your URL to Google
    I'm going to (one day) upload a website with my family tree.  I've started it, but it's taking a lot of time.  Maybe I should put it up online so you can see it if you want, but not advertise that it's there yet.


clothing

The Costume Gallery
Bissonnette on Costume: A visual Dictionary of Fashion
    These two might be useful if you have old photos and don't know who they're of.  At least you can place them in a time period.


starting points - these are all good places to spend a bunch of time with.  Lots of stuff here and could help you find other really useful info.

Google Search: soc.genealogy
NARA | Publications | Aids for Genealogical Research Catalog: Microfilm Catalogs
The Genealogy Spot
The Genealogy Register
Ancestry.com Genealogy Free Databases - Totally and Always Free Genealogy Resources by Ancestor Search
Best Internet Genealogy - Home
My GenForum
GeneaNet - Your control panel
Free Genealogy Search Help for Google
Family Trees and Genealogy



transcriptions - places to post transcriptions you've done and look through what others have posted

Obituary Lookup Volunteers - Posting/Publishing Obituaries
Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory for finding obituaries
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
Ancestors At Rest, find free death records


translating stuff - for when you get to ancestors who didn't live in the US.  Also, I've left the Norwegian and German sites listed, in case you find you have ancestors from either of those countries.

Online translator by WorldLingo. Free translators.
Language Tools
Translation Team Manual


Norwegian geneaology

Digitalarkivet - Natl archives of Norway
Searching the 1865, 1875 and 1900 Censuses for Norway


german geneaology

German genealogy - genealogy.net
Germany (German) Genealogy: Resources for Family History Research
Internet Sources of German Genealogy
Basic Research Outline for German Genealogy | from the German Roots Website
SURNAME NAVIGATOR GERMANY
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