Links: A Sampling of Research Aids

Researching Your Family Tree on the Internet

Links

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, Dates and Calendars, Finding People, Guides, Handwriting, How To, Immigration, International Resources, Journals, Land Records, Lists of Links, Military Information, Miscellaneous, Professional Researchers, 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

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

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

Ecclesiastical Calendars and Dates http://smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html

Old Calendars http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?1736

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/

People Search www.usa-people-search.com

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

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/

Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/

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

AccuFind http://www.nln.com/

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:

Search.com http://www.search.com/ This searches over 700 engines, including Yahoo!, Direct Hit, Lycos, Inktomi, and GoTo.com.

Google http://www.google.com/

Ask Jeeves

Single search engines Return to Top