GENEALOGY
  • Ancestors

    • Associated with PBS, this website is maintained by Brigham Young University.
  • Ancestry.com

    • Some free databases, some by subscription
  • AncestryPlus
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
    A comprehensive index to over 206,000 genealogical resources on the Internet. You'll find a list of links that point you to genealogical research sites, all categorized and cross-referenced. It's like a "card catalog" to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is the Internet.
  • Ellis Island Records
    If one of your ancestors came to the USA by way of the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island, search their name and you can access his or her records in some detail. The database allows you to search using last name, ethnicity, name of town or origin, and year of arrival. You can even see a copy of the ship's manifest listing their names.
  • Family Search

    • From the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons), this genealogy resource contains over 300 million names in two indexes, searchable by ancestor name.
  • Freedmens Bureau
    The Freedmen's Bureau is a reference for people with slave ancestors. Prior to the advent of the Internet, these records were too sparse and scattered for most African-Americans to research their genealogy. What was once a painstaking county by county search is now online, and many people are discovering a past they once thought was lost.
  • GenDex

    • This site indexes nearly five million names. Some access is free, some by subscription.
  • Family History

    • Free family history message boards 
  • FamilyTreeSearcher

    • Once you've entered your family information, you won't need to enter it again. You can then search multiple web sites from this web site. This free service will create searches for your ancestor data.
  • Genealogy.com
  • GenGateway
  • My Family

    • A password-protected community for families to post news, create family albums, hold live chats and maintain a calendar of events in a secure environment
  • RAND Genealogy Club
    This site is maintained by a group of RAND employees who share the hobby of tracing their family trees. They provide this page to share information about genealogical resources they've found available on the Internet.
  • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness [RAOGK]
    Over four thousand RAOGK volunteers have agreed to do a genealogical research task at least once per month in their local area. It's people helping people by going to local courthouses or photographing tombstones.
  • RootsWeb
    The oldest and one of the most extensive genealogy sites on the Internet ... and everything is free. It serves as host to many of genealogy sites, thousands of mailing lists, census projects, and has a large number of genealogy search engines.
  • The USGenWeb Project

    • By providing a single entry point for genealogical research, the USGenWeb Project has made tracing your family history much easier and faster than ever before. This non-profit service gives visitors unlimited access to comprehensive genealogy databases, organized by state. The site has pages for each state and each county with extensive links to applicable resources, query boards, and surname lists.
  • WorldGenWeb Project

Part of this information originated with Bob Rankin of The Internet Tour Bus.

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