List of Genealogical Links
There are sooooo many websites out there for genealogy
research now, but here are a few good ones to get you going.
Some of these are free to use, some have both a free option and a
paid option and some you can only access with a paid membership
To build a tree on your computer rather than on a website, check out:
FamilyTreeMaker ($) or
Rootsmagic
LDS Family Search -
FREE to use! Records constantly being added!
Ancestry.com - both FREE (tree and a few records) and PAID (most records) memberships.
MyHeritage - FREE and PAID memberships?
WikiTree - FREE to place your tree, manual entry. no records.
MyTrees.com - Says FREE but I've never used, so not sure.
OneGreatFamily - PAID, I've never used so don't know anything about it.
FindAGrave - FREE to use.
BillionGraves - FREE to use.
World Vital Records - easily order vital records
Social Security Administration - request a copy of a deceased person’s original application.
National Archives Military records - (pension files)
Linkpendium - tons of genealogy links
Cyndi‘s List - tons of genealogy links
DNA Painter.com Great tools! Like the DNA cM tool.
Map of US - historical map boundaries
David Rumsey Map Collection
What was There
Newspapers.com - PAID, but you can often find birth, marriage and death announcements
Google Books
WorldCat - Catalog of Published Genealogy books at libraries.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Internet Archive
Census enumerator instructions - WHY they put what they did in each census.
Bureau of Land Management records - Land patents
Fold3 - PAID but lots of libraries offer it free
GenealogyBank - PAID ?
Hathitrust.org
ArchiveGrid
Archives.org
Archives.com
National Archives - can be hard to navigate so
help finding records (faq)
ArchiveGrid - Find Archives Near You
Chronicling America - Library of Congress
GenealogyBank - PAID but lots of libraries offer it free
Stephen P. Morse - lots or great things, particularly information on passenger lists
Behind The Name - etymology and history of first names
Also look at State Archives, Libraries, Historical Societies, State and county genealogy societies.