Create a family tree, and link up your autosomal DNA results to the tree. Includes census, vital, immigration, military records, etc. Also includes access to http://newspapers.com for an additional fee.
Offers autosomal DNA testing.
Create a family tree. No DNA testing. Offers free access to all record collections including census, cemetery, church, court, military, passenger lists, probate, tax, and vital records (with the exception of some record sets that will require a visit to your Family History Library or the Salt Lake City Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah).
Create a family tree, and link up your autosomal results to the tree. This genealogy database includes census, vital, military, and immigration records, etc. as well as access to their historical newspaper collection. Offers autosomal DNA testing.
Census records are available at a subscription cost. MSJC currently subscribes to this database, but you must visit the campus library locations (San Jacinto, Menifee, and Temecula) to use the database.
State and county boundaries changed over the years. Use this atlas of county boundaries to determine which state and county your ancestor lived in during a given census year.
A collaborative project from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, this resource includes a variety of digitized newspapers published prior to 1922.
Includes links to every state in the United States, with listings of newspaper titles on a variety of websites. This is a great way to find the location of a newspaper of interest.
A database specifically for newspapers, Elephind's goal is to make it possible to search all the world’s historic online newspapers in one place. They work hard at this, and they’re adding newspapers every day.
Contains newspapers from 1607 to present from every state and forty-five countries and 108 million obituaries. Articles from over 20,300 papers can be searched by name, date, location, or publication title.
This website contains “Newspapers Archive (1690-Today),” with newspapers from all fifty states and “Newspaper Obituaries (1977 to current),” which includes millions of obituaries with electronic feeds from newspapers being published daily.
Newspapers.com is owned by Ancestry and contains over 21,200 newspapers from the 1700s to 2000s. It has large collections for New York, Pennsylvania, California, Florida, and Texas.
This is a directory of links to websites with online death indexes (listed by state and county). Includes death records, death certificate indexes, death notices and registers, obituaries, wills and probate records, and cemetery burials.
The links below for each denomination will take you to Wiki articles with lists of online record collections, descriptions of typical records for that denomination, directories for addresses and instructions for writing to local ministers, addresses for denomination archives, with collection descriptions, notes on services available, finding aids, and search engine links.
Maps (In addition to the sites listed here, don't forget to check state libraries, counties and cities for their holdings)
Drawing on the largest physical collection of American property atlases of its type, it is this company's aim to be the single best online destination for map enthusiasts and researchers alike.
Includes some fifty thousand editions of fire insurance maps comprising an estimated seven hundred thousand individual sheets. The Library of Congress holdings represent the largest extant collection of maps produced by the Sanborn Map Company.
Between 1865 and 1872 (the year Congress defunded the program), a large group of records (marriage records, land records, etc.) was generated by the Freedmen's Bureau. They are held by the National Archives and Records Administration.
This collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs divisions of the Library of Congress.
The Inspection Roll of Negroes, more commonly referred to as the Book of Negroes, is not widely known. It is set of two ledgers that lists the names, ages, and descriptive information of about 3,000 enslaved African Americans, indentured servants, and freedmen that were evacuated from the United States along with British soldiers at the conclusion of the American Revolution. At about 200 pages, this record captures what is now invaluable genealogical information such as where a person was held in slavery, their owner’s name, and when and how the person obtained freedom.
From the "Acknowledgments" page: By offering a documented listing of names of African Americans and Native Americans who supported the cause of the American Revolution, we hope to inspire the interest of descendants in the efforts of their ancestors and in the work of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Expanding the historical record with such a publication enriches the history of the American struggle for independence and illustrates the individual efforts of thousands who helped achieve that goal.
The federal government provided bounty land for those who served in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and Indian wars between 1775 and 1855. It was first offered as an incentive to serve in the military and later as a reward for service.
This is a categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet; a list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online; a free jumping-off point for you to use in your online research; a "card catalog" to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is the Internet.
Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties. Covers both free and subscription sites, with a strong emphasis upon free resources provided by libraries, other government agencies, genealogical and historical societies, and individuals.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Explore resources in libraries worldwide. Libraries and archives are often the only source for unique, local information about cemetery, burial, and military records; family Bibles, church, and town histories; indexes of births, marriages, and deaths; photographs, newspapers, microfilm; and so much more.
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