Lesson #11 Sites for Search

INTERNET RESOURCES

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Listed below is an older list of some websites. Anything over a day old can be no longer be available. Some site are fee based, you need to decide if the time and gas to go to the original record site is worth the fee. All of these sites are indexed so this alone will save you time. Please let me know which links are no longer available. Be sure to use the churches web site http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/WebSites/frameset_websites.asp for an ongoing updated internet search sites.

This index is one of my favorites as he is current and always adding and updating his site. http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/databases.html also as a hint if you want to pick up more indexes to great sites in the search engine tyry genealogy+indexes.

Another private one is http://www.bobcatsworld.com/genclass/myfavorites.htm he has some excellent websites, however it has not been updated since 2007 and some links are broken such as the Alan Mann link. If you have LDS research there are several useful links. He has categorized his list which includes some census, birth, death, libraries, country specific country research like Denmark and more.

Some of these web sites are listed in the sites above and if you can’t find the links look at these sites.

Birth Records:

http://www.freerecordsregistry.com/ Check birth dates, name, location, birth record searches

Marriage Records:

http://www.peoplefinders.com/ Instant marriage records search, includes names, ages, dates, and more.

http://www.gov-records.com/ Find out marriage records and more.

Cemetery & Burial Sites:

http://www.interment.net/ Cemetery records for over 2,300 cemeteries world wide.
http://www.findagrave.com/
http://www.cemetery.org/
http://geneasearch.com/cemeteries.htm
http://www.deathindexes.com/cemeteries.html
http://www.islandbones.com/Islandbones/Welcome.html
http://www.australiancemeteries.com/
http://www.daddezio.com/records/vital/interment.html

Census Records:

http://ancestry.com/ Use this for free at the family history center

http://www.census-online.com/ .

http://www.censusfinder.com/ Finds census records for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Native Americans.

http://washco.lib.ut.us// Need to register with Washington City Library, then takes you into Heritage Quest Database.

http://www.census.gov/
http://www.cyndislist.com/census2.htm

Church Records

http://www.cyndislist.com/religion.htm.htm provided numerous church records, free lookups, queries

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ pre 1900 churches

http://www.familysearch.org/ then library Catholic records FHL976.35 v2h

http://www.catholiclinks.org/ Catholic to find links to all dioceses

Colonial America:

http://firstfamilies.org/db/%20Colonial%20Ancestors; America's 1st Families.
http://www.genealinks.com/colonial.htm
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/
http://surnamesite.com/names/Colonial_America/

General Genealogical Sites:

http://www.ancestrv.com/ Provides free & pay databases. Good source for research.
 http://cyndislist.com List of genealogical research sites, including states, countries, etc. How to research and much more. Considered on of the best sites.

http://google.com/ Looks for whatever you ask it to.

http://rootsweb.com/ Collection of genealogical resources.

http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanilites/historv/Genealogy Yahoo's Genealogy page & search engine.

http://www.everton.com// Sources for research, & a database of files by Everton Publishers. As of 2009 Ancestry,com has acquired their information. They have a vast amout of family trees and were the first to have message board, although they were in print.

Immigration & Emigration:

http://ellisislandrecords.org/ Entries into US via Ellis Island from 1892-1924. http://www.jewishgen.org

http://www.over-land.com/

http://overlandtrails.lib.byu.edu/

http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch/1,15773,3966-1,00.html
LDS Family History Sites:

http://www.familysearch.org/ LDS Church website, online database for locating ancestors with reference to our church resources.

Map Sites:

http://www.goldbug.com/. Downloadable antimap shows changes in boundaries

www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ University of Texas site of world maps.

http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm Historic USGS New England maps. http://www.mapquest.com Enter city, state, & street address.

http://mappoint.msn.com/

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map Ontario, Canada http://multimap.com Especially good for British Isles, USA, and the world.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ Maps for the British Isles.

http://www.familysearch.org/ simple maps for any place

http://www.google.com/ for virtual maps

Mormon Pioneer Sites:

http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/handcart.htm

http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/1844_1877/handcart_eom.htm
http://www.webster-family.org/martinhandcart/
http://handcart.byu.edu/
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/handcartcompanies.html
http://www.thefurtrapper.com/martin_handcart.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401802752.html
http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch/1,15773,3966-1,00.html 
National Websites:

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org// The National Genealogical Society.

http://usgenweb.org// USGenWeb Project: A central web site for the nationwide project to organize state by state, county by county.

http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi Roots web's US Town & County Finder. (A website for finding the counties for each state).

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.html Library of Virginia-Digital Library.

http://memory.loc.gov/ Library of Congress-American Memory Project-Multimedia collections of digitized documents, photos, recorded sound, moving pictures & text.

Passenger Ship list Sites:

http://www.theshiplist.com/

Timeline software

http://www.ourtimelines.com/ a fun site that will put you ancestor in context of historical or scientific events

World Sites:

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start LDS indexing site just getting started indexing all the records the LDS church has in it’s possession.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Census.html

England Wales and Irish research ..records to research and online name finder for 1881 and 1891 National Index

www.census-online.com/links/Ireland/ Irish census records

http://www.worldgenweb.org/


Free translation:

http://www.google.com/

Free lookups

http://www.raogk.org/ (Random Act of Kindness) This website is full of volunteers willing to look up information. The only request is that the users return the favor at least once by volunteering in their own area

More Websites

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/WebSites/frameset_websites.asp LDS Church’s favorite websites ~ census, churches, court, and land records, migration, military, royal lines and much more

Lessons

http://261.byu.edu/%20Introduction to BYU introduction lessons online,

http://261.byu.edu/lesson1.html Gathering Family Information

http://261.byu.edu/lesson2.html Learning PAF

http://261.byu.edu/lesson3.html Family Search

http://261.byu.edu/lesson3.html GEDCOMS

http://261.byu.edu/lesson5.html Research

http://261.byu.edu/lesson6.html Introduction to Family History Centers

http://261.byu.edu/lesson7.html Temple Ready

http://261.byu.edu/lesson8.html Sharing

Roots Magic Software products
http://rootsmagic.com/

Ohana Software products Lessons

http://www.ohanasoftware.com/?sec=lessons The new Family Insights Lessons both video and printable (PDF) !Note must be registered on New Family Search to access all of the features.

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frameset_rhelps.asp Research Helps for all states and most countries

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/education/frameset_education.asp?PAGE=education_research_series_online.asp%3FActiveTab=2 English research learn what records to search and how,

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/WebSites/frameset_websites.asp More websites from Family Search