Ancestry.com - channel on YouTube; how-to advice (video format).
Ancestry.com wiki - a great place to learn more about family history.
The Ancestry Insider - the unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author attempts to fairly and evenly support both.
Better GEDCOM - a dynamic, open forum for the exchange of ideas about different aspects of technology and standardization.
Calendar of Genealogy Events - sponsored by Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. Links to individual American states and Canadian provinces.
Cyndi's List blog - Cyndi's random thoughts, advice, tips, wishes, and periodic rants.
Olive Tree Genealogy blog - bringing you tutorials, genealogy book and app reviews, genealogy news, genealogy specials and more. Helping you find your family tree and ancestors.
Family Tree DNA - provides testing for genealogists; pioneer in the field of genetic genealogy.
Genealogical DNA Test - understanding the difference in DNA tests (Y-DNA vs. mtDNA) and their results (Wikipedia).
Genebase - by testing your Y-DNA, you can trace your paternal lineage.
Genetic Genealogy - the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals (Wikipedia).
Genetree - DNA consulting; helping the genealogist know which DNA test is appropriate for their use.
American Ancestors - website sponsored by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), the first genealogical society founded in America. Now with searchable databases.
The Ancestor Hunt - helpful research information, techniques, tutorials and links. Hosted by Ken Marks.
Ancestry.com Wiki - offers free access to some of the best genealogical resources online, and allows users to add/update content.
Arcalife - one place to preserve family history, scrapbook memories, and securely share rich life content.
Archives.com - trace your roots, use our family history database of vital records, newspaper images, and census data to discover your ancestors' world.
The Association for Gravestone Studies - interpretation, conservation, preservation, education; to foster appreciation of the cultural significance of gravestones and burial grounds through their study and preservation.
Association of Graveyard Rabbits - dedicated to the academic promotion of the historical importance of cemeteries, grave markers, and the family history to be learned from a study of burial customs, burying grounds, and tombstones.
Atlas of Canada - provides the most interesting, dynamic and comprehensive collection of maps and related information about Canada available anywhere on the Internet (English and French versions).
Billion Graves - help make family history available to everyone. Collect cemetery photos, transcribe headstones, add GPS coordinates (with downloadable app), search for ancestors' graves already added.
Burke's Peerage - the definitive guide to the genealogy and heraldry of the Peerage and Landed Gentry of the United Kingdom and other prominent families worldwide.
Calendar of Genealogy Events - sponsored by Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter. Links to individual American states and Canadian provinces.
Calendar, Perpetual - determine a day of the week for a date from any year in the Gregorian calendar.
Castle Garden - America's first official immigration center; site has a searchable database.
Cemetery Junction listing of over 13,000 cemeteries, some with online surveys.
Cemetery Photos - an unusual hobby, but potentially useful to the genealogist.
Census Records - FactFinder: tips on using the U.S. Census Records for genealogy research.
Center for Black Genealogy - a nonprofit educational institute designed to advance the scholarship of African American genealogy and promote genealogy research and preservation throughout the African Diaspora.
Chronicling America - national newspaper digitization program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment of the Humanities, including a searchable database.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) - an ambitious project to realize the great promise of the Internet for the advancement of sharing information and of using technology to enable new knowledge and discoveries in the United States.
Family History Daily - bringing together family historians from many backgrounds to showcase genealogical stories, research, help and resources on a wide range of topics.
Find a Grave - find the cemeteries and graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave.
Find My Past - discover how your UK ancestors lived, worked, and played.
GenDex - free, searchable genealogical index network, involving multiple databases linked to family history websites across the Internet.
GenDisasters - events that touched our ancestors' lives; searchable database.
GenealoGee.com - a genealogy bookmarking site for genealogists and hobbyists to share blog posts, articles, news and other information with each other.
Genealogy Book Links - simplies searching for our ancestors by identifying and linking to the freely available digitized American biographies, genealogies and history books.
GenealogyBuff.com - searchable site includes county marriages, county deaths, state and federal census records, birth records, immigration records, obituaries, etc.
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Genealogy Karma - built to empower the Mocavo community and connect researchers around the country. Modeled after Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, hosted by Mocavo.
Genealogy Search Engine - search billions of free ancestral records from around the world. Hosted by GenealogyInTime Magazine.
GenealogyToday - publishing unique information and offering innovative services since 1999. Our goal is to help everyone that visits, and hope to become one of your favorite providers of genealogy and family history resources.
GeneaQuilts - a new visualization technique for representing large genealogies of up to several thousand individuals; free downloadable application for all platforms.
Gen Gathering - a gathering of researchers and genealogists that "give and take" (substitute for RAOGK; see note below)
Historic Graves - a community based heritage project which digitally records and publishes historic graveyard surveys and stories (UK).
Historic Map Works - an internet company formed to create a historic digital map database of North America and the world.
Historical Marker Society of America - operated by many like-minded folk who appreciate American History and the reflection of that history along our streets and highways.
ID A PHOTO - this site has been created to help answer questions about a photo or to return a photo to whom it may belong. New photos uploaded on a regular basis so please check back often for new photos.
Illnesses - terminology and modern translation of the various diseases experienced by our ancestors.
Inflation Calculator - calculate equivalent values for any year between 1800 and 2005 (in US dollars).
Internet Archive - a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library (including a section on genealogy). Offers permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Land Patents at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Irish Archives Resource - this portal will link you to archival collections throughout the island of Ireland.
Military Service and Pension Records - access to copies at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the official repository for records of military personnel.
Mocavo.com - providing genealogists access to the best free genealogy content on the web including billions of names, dates and places worldwide.
Moors & Nanticokes - history and genealogy in Delaware; research by Lynn Jackson.
My Genealogy Hound - completely free site, view thousands of family biographies from early and rare history and genealogy references.
MyHeritage - share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love.
Nanticoke Lenni-Lanape Indians of Delaware and New Jersey; official site authorized by the tribal council.
National Cemetery Administration - Veterans Administration site with a nationwide gravesite locator that includes some service information.
NCpedia - an online encyclopedia to highlight North Carolina's unique resources, people, and culture to enrich, educate, and inform.
Olive Tree Genealogy - has more than 1,900 pages of free genealogy records to help you find your brick-wall ancestors and build your family tree.
One-Step Webpages - contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites. Developed and hosted by Stephen P. Morse.
OpenGen.net - free sources and tools for genealogy researchers.
Orphan Train Complex - created to help educate the public about this chapter in American history.
Ozarks Civil War - life in the Ozarks before, diring, and after the War; searchable online database. Hosted by the Springfield-Greene County Library District.
PERSI - Periodical Source Index; a comprehensive subject index of local history and genealogy periodicals.
PhotoTree - dedicated to research, dating, and preservation of 19th century photographs; a comprehensive resource for genealogists, collectors, and historians.
Place My Past - every place has a story – find out if it's yours.
Smith County Historical Society - dedicated to discovering, collecting and preserving data, records and other items relating to the history of Smith County, Texas.
Topsy - search and analyze the social web (Twitter/social media search engine); all Tweets since 2006.
Transatlantic Slave Trade - online database offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
Troup Municipal Library - Troup, Smith County, TX. Meeting place of the Troup Genealogical/Historical Society.
USGenWeb - Project sites, listed by state and county.
USGS National Map - The U.S. Geological Survey was entrusted with the responsibility for mapping the country in 1879 and has been the primary civilian mapping agency of the United States ever since.
Vital Records Information - shows you how and where to obtain birth, death, marriage and divorce records from the U.S. government.
Wayback Machine - can't locate a website? Try the Wayback Machine to find an archived copy of any website (since 1996).
WeRelate - a free public-service wiki for genealogy, sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy in partnership with the Allen County Public Library.
What Was There - ties historical photos to Google Maps, allows you to tour familiar streets to see how they appeared in the past.
WikiTree - a free and collaborative online family tree project for anyone from newbies to seasoned researchers.
WorldConnect Project - online, searchable family trees and downloadable GEDCOM files.
World Memory Project - you can help make the Holocaust victims' records searchable online and restore the identities of people the Nazis tried to erase from history, one person at a time.
Dean Family information on descendants of Drury Dean, by Cindy Griffin and Sherry Hicks.
Dean Surname Genealogy - research of Larry Dean; includes a history of the Dean surname, results of the Dean Surmane Y-DNA Project, and work by other Dean researchers.
Guild of One-Name Studies - the world's leading organisation for one-name studies (UK). A one-name study is a project researching facts about a surname and all the people who have held it, as opposed to a particular pedigree (the ancestors of one person) or descendancy (the descendants of one person or couple).
The Original Record - surname-indexed ancestry and genealogy historical records, books and documents containing 10 million entries. Scans directly available on-line (UK).
The Surname Society - focusing on single surname studies, the Society meets the needs of researchers in the world of family history and genealogy as it evolves in the 21st century.
Woodham Family Association history and genealogy by Robert Earl Woodham (note: Robert Earl Woodham passed away in 2009; read his obit at this link).
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American Last Names - surnames are all presented here with their ranks, counts, and ethnicity information. Some of the surnames have been augmented with common meanings, origins, and history behind them.
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - the DAILY genealogy technology newsletter for genealogy consumers, packed with straight talk – hold the sugar coating – whether the vendors like it or not!
Genealogy in the Classroom - enter our school for an introduction to the tools and techniques; provided by the Victoria Genealogical Society (BC, Canada)
Genealogy Gems - valuable information provided by Lisa Louise Cooke, author and lecturer on all things genealogy and technology.
Genealogy Technology - discover Internet tools, applications, blogs and other resources to trace your roots (via Scoop.it!).
Hack Genealogy - provides information on emerging technology inside and outside the genealogy industry.
History Tech - history, technology, and probably some other stuff. Site operated by Glenn Wiebe – educator, consultant, tech guy.
RootsTech - a unique global family history event where people of all ages learn to discover and share their family stories and connections through technology.
TechTips - technology tips for genealogists and family historians (from FamilySearch).
ThinkGenealogy - genealogy, software, ideas, and innovation.
YouTube - links to instructional, educational videos on genealogy and technology.
