Researching Your Family Tree on the Internet

 

 

Here is a sampling of categories and sites to utilize in doing your research.  For the Big Kahuna of all lists, visit Cyndi’s List.

Census, Commercial Sites, Communication with Other Researchers, Databases, Finding People, Guides, How To, Immigration, International Resources, Journals, Land Records, Lists of Links, Military Information, Miscellaneous, Organizations, Professional Researchers, Repositories, Search Engines, Site Hosting, Surname Searches, Toledo Area, Tutorials, Vitals

Typical Genealogical research topics

   Vitals: birth, marriage, death

           Vital Check   http://www.vitalchek.com/

           Where to write for certified copies   http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/  Enter "vital records" in the search engine box.

           Ohio Vital Records   http://www.odh.state.oh.us/vitalstatistics/vitalstats.aspx

       Ohio Department of Health   http://www.odh.state.oh.us/

       Ohio Death Certificate Index   http://www.ohiohistory.org/dindex/

           Cemeteries   http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/junction/index.html

           Birth Date Calculator   http://www.progenealogists.com/birthfromdeath.htm

*                  Calendars: Historic, Perpetual, etc.   http://www.calendarzone.com/

*                  Find a Grave http://www.findagrave.com/

   Land records                                                                            Return to Top 

           Official Federal Land Patent Records Site   http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/  (This material refers to only the expansion states, not the original colonies)

           How-to manual   http://users.arn.net/~billco/uslpr.htm

           Lancaster County, PA   historical boundary changes

   Census                                                                                      Return to Top 

           Contemporary Data (meaning 72 or less years ago)   http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/genealogy/www/

           Census microfilm orders   http://www.censusmicrofilm.com/

           Ancestor.Com search   http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/census/main.htm

   Military Information                                                                 Return to Top 

           Andersonville Prisoner Lookup   http://www.MaconCountyGA.org/

           American Civil War Homepage   http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

           Civil War and Genealogy Resources on the Web   http://www.vmi.edu/~archtml/cwinet.html

       Ohio in the Civil War   http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/

       Roster of Ohio Soldiers 1812   http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/rosters.html

*                  Sons of Civil War Veterans http://suvcw.org/

   Immigration                                                                              Return to Top 

           Emigration/ Ship Lists & Resources   http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5978/Emigration.html

           Immigrant & Passenger Arrivals: Catalog of Microfilm Publications   http://www.archives.gov/

           Gateway to Online Searchable Passenger Lists – listing only, no links   http://www.angelfire.com/ks/windshipgenhelp/shiplist.html

           Ellis Island   http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

   International Resources                                                            Return to Top 

           Ireland: surname search   http://www.local.ie/

       Germany   http://www.genealogienetz.de

           Palatine & Pennsylvania-Dutch   http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3955/resources.htm

           Swiss   http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/

           Multinational links   http://www.aros.net/~lance1//

       Travel Genie Maps   http://showcase.netins.net/web/travelgenie/

           Translators

           Changing language of keyboard

Databases

   Surname searches                                                                     Return to Top 

           Distant Cousins   http://distantcousin.com/

           Soundex   http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/Genea/soundex.sh

           Surname Springboard   http://www.geocities.com/~alacy/spring.htm#256

           Roots Web   http://www.rootsweb.com/

   Lists of links and indexes                                                          Return to Top 

           Cyndi’s List   http://www.CyndisList.com/

           Roots Web   http://www.rootsweb.com/~websites/

           GENDEX WWW Genealogical Index   http://www.gendex.com/gendex/

           US GenWeb Project    http://usgenweb.com/researchers/researcher.html

           National Archives   http://www.nara.gov/research/

           National Archives Information Locator (audiovisual)   http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html

   Free Databases                                                                         Return to Top 

                Ancestry.com ( a portion)   http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm

                Family Search   http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

                World Connect    http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/

                Gen Gateway   http://www.gengateway.com/gateway5.htm

           Kindred Konnections (a portion)   http://mytrees.com/

   Commercial Databases (subscription fee)                                  Return to Top 

           Ancestry.com   http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm

           Family Tree Maker   http://www.genealogy.com/glsub.html

           Kindred Konnections   http://mytrees.com/

           Everton’s On-Line   http://www.everton.com

           GENDEX   http://www.gendex.com

           World Family Tree   http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/wfttop.html

 

 

Toledo Area Links  http://www.tagsohio.org/toledo.htm

Miscellaneous                                                                                     Return to Top 

   Deciphering Old Handwriting   http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html

   Software for searching   http://www.search-family-tree-genealogy-surname-history.com/

Communication

   With other researchers                                                             Return to Top 

           ListServs   http://cset.sp.utoledo.edu/lists.html

           CompuServ’s Genealogy Forum   http://www.rootscomputing.com/

           Genealogy.com Forum Finder   http://genforum.genealogy.com/

           Rand Genealogy Club   http://www.rand.org/contact/personal/Genea/

       RootsWeb   http://www.rootsweb.com/

   Finding people                                                                         Return to Top 

           Switchboard   http://www.switchboard.com/

           Yahoo   http://people.yahoo.com/

       411 Locate: People Search   http://ypng.infospace.com/info.loc411/

       AnyWho   http://www.anywho.com/

       Real White Pages Online   http://www.realwhitepages.com/info.bls/index.htm

           GTE SuperPages   http://superpages.gte.com/

           International Telephone Directories   http://www.infobel.com/World/

       Online Phone Books   http://4phonenumbers.4anything.com/4/0,1001,5619,00.html

           People Finder   http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/whitepages.html

   Journals & Newsletters                                                             Return to Top 

           Free monthly e-letter   http://www.amberskyline.com/sub.html

           Journal of On-line Genealogy   http://www.onlinegenealogy.com/

           Subscription-Service.Com – includes genealogy as a topic   http://www.subscription-service.com/info/html/entertainment-info.cgi?fw

           Roots Web   http://www.rootsweb.com/

*                  Allen County-Fort Wayne Library, free monthly newsletter:   Send a message with ACPL NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE
in the subject line to: kspears@acpl.lib.in.us. You will NOT receive a confirmation message; you will just begin to receive the newsletters, which are scheduled to be published approximately once a month.

Professionals – fee based   http://www.findheirs.com/

Guides and tutorials

   On-line                                                                                     Return to Top 

            Beginning Your Genealogy Research   http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/begin.html

       Family Search   http://www.familysearch.org

       Genealogy Instruction: Beginners   http://home.earthlink.net/~howardorjeff/instruct.htm

       BYU   http://ce.byu,edu/is/genealogy

   In print                                                                                     Return to Top 

           Netting Your Ancestors: Cyndi’s List, Howells, Cyndi

       Genealogy Online for Dummies, Helm, Matthew

       Virtual Roots, Kemp, Thomas

       Your Family Tree, Oldfield, Jim

       The Internet for Genealogists, Renick, Barbara

       Genealogical Computing (periodical)

Search engines                                                                                   Return to Top 

*      Specialized Genealogical Search Engines

*                  Kindred Konnections http://www.kindredkonnections.com/index.html

*                  Genealogy Place  http://www.genealogyplace.com/index.html

*      Multi-search engines

           Metacrawler   http://www.metacrawler.com/  Searches 14 engines: 

a.     Alta Vista

b.     Direct Hit

c.     Excite

d.     FindWhat.com

e.     Google

f.      GoTo.com

g.     InfoSeek

h.     Internet Keywords

i.       Kanoodle

j.      Look Smart

k.     Lycos

l.       Sprinks by About

m.   Thunderstone

n.     WebCrawler

   Dogpile   http://www.dogpile.com/                              Return to Top 

The organization of the information is different.  This gives the results in groups of three search engines at a time.  Searches 14 engines:              

a.     Alta Vista

b.     Direct Hit

c.     FindWhat.com

d.     Google

e.     GoTo.com

f.      InfoSeek

g.     Kanoodle

h.     LookSmart

i.       Lycos

j.      Sprinks by About

k.     Yahoo (all above are also in Metacrawler)

l.       Dogpile Open Directory

m.    Dogpile Web Catalog

n.     Real Names (the last 3 are unique to Dogpile). 

   AccuFind    http://www.nln.com/                                 Return to Top   

Categories are listed which allow you to search in a Yahoo type fashion: Hot, Books, Business, Government, Law, Life, Medical, News, Reference, Shopping, Technical.  The 18 powerful search engines utilized get you into unusual corners of the Internet:     

a.     Alta Vista

b.     Corel Photos

c.     Deja News

d.     Dogpile

e.     Excite

f.      FTP Search

g.     Galaxy

h.     Hot Bot

i.       Info Seek

j.      Link Star

k.     Lycos

l.       Magellan

m.   Movies

n.     Music

o.     Reference.Com

p.     Snap