Subscription Services

* American Civil War Database – www.civilwardata.com
American Civil War Research Database is the largest, most in-depth and fully searchable database of United States Civil War soldiers and events.


* Ancestry.com – www.ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is one of the largest collection of family history records on the internet.


* Everton Publishers – www.everton.com
Family History Network (FHN), formerly Everton Publishers, has been serving the needs of genealogists for almost 60 years. Walter M. Everton, founder of Everton Publishers, recognized the need to teach people how to gather family history and connect with their heritage.


* Genealogy.com – www.genealogy.com
Ancestry.com is the premier resource for family history online. It offers both free and premium subscription databases. Ancestry.com connects Internet users to the most comprehensive online genealogical resources available. With thousands of fully searchable databases accessing hundreds of millions of searchable records.


* HeritageQuest – www.HeritageQuest.com
Founded in 1983 by Bradley and Raeone Steuart, HeritageQuest is the largest genealogical data provider in the United States and a leading purveyor of data, products, supplies and equipment to consumers and institutions. On August 15, 2001 ProQuest Company purchased HeritageQuest from Sierra On-Line, Inc., a division of Vivendi Universal Publishing. Combined with ProQuest resources, HeritageQuest represents the most comprehensive collection of genealogical information available anywhere. HeritageQuest employs over 85 people and its source document holdings have soared to over 250,000 titles strong, making it America's largest genealogical information provider. The company is dedicated to producing high-use data, landmark publications, general reference books and timely, informative periodicals for genealogy enthusiasts at every level.


* MyTrees.com – www.mytrees.com
Search the world's largest genealogy, pedigree-linked database. Over 1 Billion Names. Build your Family History with a Family Search from Birth Records, Marriage Records, Death Records, and - of course – Family Trees in the Ancestry Archive™ Search. MyTrees PLUS will automatically search every name in your family tree and link you directly with your ancestors. MyTrees PLUS Family Tree Search.


* Surname Web – www.surnameweb.com
Surname genealogy search. The first genealogy project based solely upon the genealogy of your surname. Online since 1996!!! By Ancestry.com.


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Surname Links

* RootsWeb.com – http://www.rootsweb.com
The primary purpose and function of RootsWeb.com is to connect people so that they can help each other and share genealogical research. Most resources on RootsWeb.com are designed to facilitate such connections.


* Bureau Of Missing Heirs – www.bureauofmissingheirs.com
Are you a missing heir? This is the "good news" website that brings unexpected money to people throughout the world. You do not have to subscribe to anything nor pay anything. We sell nothing. We ask for nothing.


* CousinConnect – www.cousinconnect.com
CousinConnect is the newest place where genealogists can post their queries. We feature a powerful server and database engine to store, search, and manage your queries. CousinConnect focuses on making your queries highly visible to the genealogy community. If you are looking to contact other genealogists, discover distant relatives, or find a missing person, CousinConnect offers you the best chance for success.


* Family Forest – www.familyForest.com
Over 40,000 hours have been spent researching and developing the Family Forest product. More than 330 printed resources from throughout the United States have been accessed in the process. Family Forest is now a fully-sourced lineage-linked digital database with instant access to ancestral connections of millions of people that spans over twenty centuries and multiple continents.


* Family Tree Guide - http://www.familytreeguide.com
Family Tree Guide™ - is one of the most revolutionary online tools (Family Tree Generator™) in guiding you to creatively display and share your online family tree with others, while allowing you, and others if you wish, to work on your family tree online as a group.


* GenCircles – www.gencircles.com
To date, 32 million ancestors have been submitted to GenCircles’ Global Tree. The site uses a ‘matching technology’ to pair the people in your pedigree with those already on file. Search the surname database or post messages about individuals in the Global Tree.


* GenForum – www.genforum.com or www.genforum.genealogy.com/
Working with other family history enthusiasts is an essential step for every researcher.  GenForum, the largest genealogy message board site, lets you do just that. Share your success stories, swap research tips, and find others who are researching the same family lines as you. With well over 8 million messages, it offers a wealth of information for you to explore, and as the largest genealogy message board community, it offers you the best chance of finding your long-lost cousins.


* Gengateway – www.gengateway.com


* My Genealogy.com
http://www.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/my_main.cgi
Genealogy.com is a part of the MyFamily.com, Inc. network of sites. The company enriches the lives of its customers by providing the tools, resources and community that empower them to uncover and share their unique family stories. The company designs, develops and markets genealogy software applications and online resources that enable family history enthusiasts to research, organize and document their heritage at home or away. Developing software since 1984, Genealogy.com continues to be a leader in the genealogy technology space, producing the #1 selling family tree software — Family Tree Maker — for more than a decade. The company also provides extensive online genealogy resources, including subscriptions that give researchers continuous, easy access to valuable family history information.


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Technology Tips and Tools

* Cyndi’s Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit www.cyndislist.com/construc.htm
Tips, hints, links and more to help you create your personal genealogy home page!

* Free-B-Kins: Genealogy Graphics
www.mayflowerfamilies.com/freebkins
Need a free, fresh look for your ancestor or personal page? Perhaps you'd like to send out a special family letter or email. "Root" around. You might find just the thing.


* Genealogical Software Report Card - www.mumford.ca/reportcard
The Report Card is compiled as part of the process when a genealogical program is reviewed for the National Genealogical Society's Newsmagazine. The developers of these programs supply fully functional registered copies for evaluation.


* Genealogy and Technology Articles - www.oz.net/~markhow/writing
Genealogy & Technology Articles by Mark Howells. His genealogy writings have appeared in the National Genealogical Society's Computer Interest Group Digest, the New England Historic Genealogical Society's The Computer Genealogist, Family Tree Magazine, Heritage Quest Magazine, Family Chronicle Magazine, and Computers In Genealogy. Mark is the Technology Columnist for Ancestry magazine.


* Identifying Family Photographs www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm
Do you have shoeboxes filled with unidentified family photographs? Do you wish there was a way to identify them, but don't know how? Let noted genealogist and photo historian Maureen Taylor do it for you.


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Search Sites by State or Region

* Arkansas:
Arkansas History Commission - www.ark-ives.com
This redesigned site includes: 1) Arkansas Newspapers – information on 3,000 titles published in Arkansas from 1819 to the present. You can search by title, city, and county; 2) Arkansas County Records – covers selected records from 1797 to 1950, searchable by title or county; 3) Arkansas Military Records – includes Arkansas Civil War service and Confederate pension files, information about Arkansas soldiers in the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War and the First World War, and various indexes to service in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, Indian wars, and the U.S. regular army.


* Kentucky:
The Kentucky Historical Society Library Catalog
www.catalog.kyhistory.org
This catalog provides descriptions and locations of the library's collection of more than 90,000 published works. The catalog includes microfilm collections, computer files on CD-ROM, video recordings and other media, as well as rare books, manuscripts and mixed material collections located in the Kentucky Historical Society's Special Collections.


* Maine:
Maine Memory Network – www.mainememory.net
If your ancestors settled the Pine Tree State, check out this database on Maine’s Historical Documents. The collection includes historical maps, photos, diaries and letters. You can search the documents by keyword, theme, people, events, or collections.


* New York:
New York Times Obituary Index – www.nytimes.com
Covers 1858 to 1968, with a supplement covering 1969 to 1978. this is an index to obituaries only, not death notices. The Obituary Index was compiled from the Annual Index and covers those names and obituaries that appeared under the heading ‘Deaths’ in the Annual Index. It lists mostly prominent people, but has more than 380,000 entries.

* Ohio:
The Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook - www.ohiomemory.org
A collection of Ohio’s historical treasures. The Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook brings together primary sources from all parts of the state. The site was created to commemorate the Buckeye State’s bicentennial in 2003. It is also meant to celebrate state and local history; encourage cooperation between archives, historical societies, libraries, museums and other cultural organizations; and allow the world to discover and explore Ohio’s rich past.


* Tennessee:
East Tennessee Historical Society
http://www.east-tennessee-history.org/default.cfm
Since 1834, the East Tennessee Historical Society has been telling the stories, collecting the artifacts, and recording the events that comprise our region's unique history. The historical society pursues its educational mission through publications, lectures, conferences, school programs, exhibits, and heritage programs such as the popular First Families of Tennessee and the new Civil War Families of Tennessee.


* U.S.A.

Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records  www.glorecords.blm.gov
The GLO Web site is the premier site for genealogists searching for land records. Its database contains records of land transfers from the US government to individuals, and even holds some Revolutionary War bounty warrants. Search results give the legal description and an image of the original document.

Library of Congress – www.loc.gov
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with nearly 128 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 57 million manuscripts. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

National Archives and Records Administration – www.archives.gov
The National Archives is not a dusty hoard of ancient history. It is a public trust on which our democracy depends. It enables people to inspect for themselves the record of what government has done. It enables officials and agencies to review their actions and helps citizens hold them accountable. It ensures continuing access to essential evidence that documents: the rights of American citizens; the actions of federal officials; and the national experience.
 

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International Searches

* Bolivia:
Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia  www.bcb.gov.bo/8fundacion/1infgeneral/biblioteca.html


* Brazil:
Biblioteca Nacional – www.bn.br


* British Isles:
Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage – www.burkes-peerage.net
Seeking information about noble and royal ancestors from the British Isles will be easier with the launching of Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage website, putting 5,000 family records at your fingertips.


English Origins – www.englishorigins.com
A site associated with the English Society of Genealogists. Fee based.


Genuki – www.genuki.org.uk
This is a valuable site to search if your ancestors originated in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It’s packed with tips on getting started and links to databases for Wales, Scotland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as Ireland and England.


Guild of One-Name Studies – www.one-name.org


History of the United Kingdom – www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html
A nice collection of primary historical documents. This site displays historical documents that are transcribed, produced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the United Kingdom.

Irish Origins – www.irishorigins.com
The free search engine at this site will comb 22,351 Irish genealogy Web pages containing 1.4 million names for your ancestors. These pages contain records such as census data, Griffith’s valuations, passenger lists, church records, convict records, and more. You’ll also find information about Irish record archives and other useful Irish Web sites.

Scots Origins – www.scotsorigins.com
Vital records. Fee based.


* Caribbean:
Caribbean GenWeb – www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw


* Central America:
Central America GenWeb – www.rootsweb.com/~nrthamgw


* Chili:
Biblioteca Nacional – www.bcn.cl


* Columbia:
Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia – www.bibliotecanacional.gov.co


* Costa Rica:
Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~latam/archives/project7.html  
 

Biblioteca Nacional – www.binasss.sa.cr/bina4.htm
 

* Cuba:
Cuban Genealogy Center – www.cubagenweb.org


* Ecuador:
Archivo Nacional de Historia – www.ane.gov.ec


* Europe:
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of Medieval & Renaissance Europe including: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Vatican City. These links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, produced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within the respective countries.


* French Guiana:
Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane – www.univ-ag.fr


* Guatemala:
Archivo General de Centro America www.sigu7.jussieu.fr/hsal/hsal96/cch96.html


Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala – www.biblionet.edu.gt


* Guyana:
National Library – www.natlib.gov.gy


* Mexico:
Archivo General de la Nacion – www.agn.gob.mx


Genealogy of Mexico – www.members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/index1.htm
 

Mexico Archives – www.lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/mexico


Mexico GenWeb – www.rootsweb.com/~mexwgw


* Panama:
Biblioteca Nacional – www.binal.ac.pa


* Peru:
Biblioteca Nacional del Peru – www.binape.gob.pe


* South America:
South American GenWeb – www.rootsweb.com/~sthamgw


* Uruguay:
Biblioteca Nacional del Uruguay www.bolivian.com/industrial/cndct/publicacion6.html


* Venezuela:
Biblioteca Nacional – www.bnv.bib.ve