GENEALOGY RESEARCH RESOURCES
General Genealogy Resources
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- US GenWeb Project - This is the link to all US State pages.
- Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet - The ultimate list of Genealogy Links.
- Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Page - Cyndi's got everything you will need.
- Guidelines For Publishing Web Pages On The Internet
- Arachnophilia Home Page - Great Web Page Creator and it's FREE!
- The Genealogy Home Page - One of the oldest sites on the WEB, it has many genealogy Links.
- RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative - Much genealogy information and Links. RootsWeb is also home to several state and family pages. You will find the Roots Surnames Database here. Thanks RootsWeb!
- GED2HTML: A GEDCOM to HTML Translator
- Ancestry's Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Online Search
- LDS Church FamilySearch Site - You can search for surnames and download the Personal Ancestral File (PAF 5.1 for Windows) Software. A User's Manual is also available for download.
- 1880 Census Search - Courtesy of the LDS Church
- War of the Rebellion - This is a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies published in 1880 through 1901 under the direction of the Secretary of War. The entire publication was published as a set of 71 volumes containing tens of thousands of pages of information. This is probably the most detailed information about the American Civil War ever published. Now the entire series is available online. The Web site contains only graphic images. The books have not been converted to text. The only index available is the original index published with the collection in 1901. This index is available online, but it, too, is available as a collection of graphic images.
- The Official Records of the United States and Confederate Navies
- Mayflower Education Web Site - Mr. Duane A. Cline is the Education Chairperson for the U.S. national Society of Mayflower Descendants. Over the years, Mr. Cline has put together an educational package for use in school systems across the nation. This package helps teachers by providing factual details about the Pilgrims, their voyage, and Plymouth. Now, for the first time, Mr. Cline's original work is available to everyone on the Internet. Nearly all of his illustrations and exercises (for students young and old) are unique. This site details the facts about the Pilgrims in a much better than most history books used in public schools.
- Civil War Photographs Database - The Special Collections Branch of U.S. Army Military History Institute now has an online catalog of thousands of Civil War photographs. You can search the catalog by any word to find listings. You can search by name or by town, state, regiment or almost anything else you can think of. If a photograph has been catalogued with that word, you will find a listing for it. This collection includes photographs of thousands of soldiers, enlisted men and officers alike. This site appears to work sporadically!
- Civil War Roster Home Page
- Silicon Valley PAF User's Group Documentation Guidelines - The group has become widely known for the original guidelines, first published in 1992. When the methodology for storing source documentation changed dramatically with recent software releases, the users group recognized a need to revise the guidelines. The new edition is a highly useful, wire-bound, 104-page book of detailed recommendations, instructions, and examples for entering source documentation. The book provides help for differentiating between source and note entries, includes 16 tables in eight chapters and appendices, and is referenced with an extensive index. INCLUDES UPDATE FOR PAF 5.0.
- White Oak: Genealogy of the Potowmack - The original hand-written Northern Neck Grant Books fill 37 volumes. These records were abstracted some years ago and published by the Fairfax County government in a single volume called "Beginning at a white Oak. Patents and Northern Neck Grants of Fairfax County, Virginia." The book is now out of print, and there are no plans to republish it. Steve Knoblock has been manually entering each abstract into a spreadsheet on his computer; the index fields from this spreadsheet are now available on Steve's Web site. The database is searchable by name, surname, grant date, grant book and issuer.
- Bureau of Land Management
- RootsWeb Global Search for the World Connect Databases - All of the Databases for this site are located here.
- Digital Cameras and Genealogy
Newbie Genealogy Resources
New England Genealogy Resources
- Cyndi's List of New York Sites on the Internet
- Dutchess County NY GenWeb Site - Asa and Jesse Hall originally came from Dutchess County New York to Montgomery County, Virginia.
- Cyndi's List of Vermont Sites on the Internet
- Vermont GenWeb Project
- Addison County VT GENWEB Project - This is the home county of Solomon Phillips, the Revolutionary War Soldier.
- Windsor County VT GENWEB Project
- Chittenden County Vermont GENWEB Project
- Orange County Vermont GENWEB Project
- Vermont in the Civil War Home Page
- Cyndi's List of New Hampshire Sites on the Internet
- New Hampshire's GENWEB Project
- Cyndi's List of Rhode Island Sites on the Internet
- Rhode Island GENWEB Project
- Cyndi's List of Massachusetts Sites on the Internet
- Massachusetts GENWEB Project
- New Jersey GenWeb Project - Birth State for Peter Gary.
Mid Atlantic Genealogy Resources
- Cyndi's List of Virginia Sites on the Internet
- Bedford County Virginia Genealogy
- Botetourt County Virginia Genealogy
- Floyd County Virginia Genealogy
- Franklin County Virginia Genealogy - Home County of Graham Family
- Montgomery County Virginia Genealogy
- Cyndi's List of West Virginia Sites on the Internet
- Marshall County, West Virginia Genealogy
- Ohio County West Virginia Genealogy
- West Virginia Birth, Marriage and Death Records - You can now search and view scanned images of original birth, death, and marriage records from six counties, as well as most statewide death certificates from 1917-54 at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ The free database consists of millions of West Virginia births, deaths, and marriages--a goldmine for genealogists and historians.
- Cyndi's List of Ohio Sites on the Internet
- Franklin County Ohio Web Page
- Cyndi's List of Pennsylvania Sites on the Internet
- Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
- Fayette County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
- Somerset County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
- Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Genealogy
- Pennsylvania State Digital Archives - The state of Pennsylvania has announced the release of a major new online database of interest to genealogists. ARIAS (Archives Records Information Access System) is now online. This huge database already contains the Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File, the World War I Service Medal Application Cards and the Spanish American War Veterans' Card File of United States Volunteers. Future additions already underway include the Civil War Veterans' Card File and the Mexican Border Campaign Veterans' Card File.
- Newspaper Archives for Obituary Searches
Southern States Resources
- Cyndi's List of Alabama Sites on the Internet
- Madison County Alabama Genealogy - Home County of the Bayless Family
- Cyndi's List of Arkansas Sites on the Internet
- Cyndi's List of Kentucky Sites on the Internet
- Cyndi's List of North Carolina Sites on the Internet
- North Carolina GenWeb Project
- Rowan County Genealogy
- Cyndi's List of Tennessee Sites on the Internet
- Tennessee GenWeb Project
- Lincoln County Tennessee Genealogy
- McMinn County Tennessee Genealogy
- Monroe County Tennessee Genealogy
- Wilson County TN Genealogy
Family Genealogy Resources
- The Bayless Family Home Page
- Shermans of Yaxley Home Page
- A Record of the Descendants of Capt. John AYRES of Ipswich & Brookfield, Massachusetts
- The Jackson Henderson Oldham Family
- The Lavinder or Lavender Family of Virginia
United States Government Resources