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http://www.ancestry.com/ – $$$ This is the Ancestry.com site. It interfaces with Family Tree Maker software.
http://www.archives.gov/ – This is the National Archives and Records Administration [NARA] site. It’s the place to go if you’re searching for information about a US veteran. Through the Access to Archival Databases [AAD] system at www.archives.gov/aad, you can search nearly 50 million records, including WWII records. The Archival Research Catalog at www.archives.gov/research_room/arc includes over 58,000 digitized images and 15,000 documents.
www.cyndislist.com/usvital.htm – Nearly 500 links to both general resource sites and state-related sites. Follow links to the individual state pages, which have a category called Records: Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes and Vital [born, married, died and buried]. You can keep track of additions to Cyndi’s List by subscribing to the site’s mailing list.
http://www.familysearch.org/ – The Church of Latter Day Saints is responsible for this mammoth site, with hundreds of millions of names in free databases. Visitors submit a large portion of the records at this site, so you shouldn’t take them as gospel. But they can be used for great leads and for making contact with other researchers.
http://www.footnote.com/ – $$$
http://www.gencircles.com/ – With more than 90 million ancestors in user-submitted databases, this site is a networker’s paradise. Aims to help genealogists quickly and efficiently find and trade information. If you find a match, you can download another person’s file (if permission has been given) or contact the person via email.
http://www.genealogy.com/ – $$$
http://www.genealogybank.com/ – $$$
http://www.genuki.org.uk/ – Loads of resources for UK and Ireland roots research. Organized geographically, with links relating to the British Isles as a whole, as well as to individual countries and regions.
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/ – $$$ You can only access this collection two ways: by visiting a subscribing library or genealogical society or by subscribing yourself.
http://www.deathindexes.com/ – Points you to online indexes and other death-date sources, including obituaries, cemetery records, burial records and probate indexes.
http://loc.gov/ – This is the Library of Congress site. With more than 127 million items, it’s greatest online asset is the American Memory Project at
http://www.lostcousins.com/ – $$$ Takes your relatives from FamilySearch’s 1880 US, 1881 Canadian and 1881 British census transcriptions and matches them to other researchers investigating the same folks. Only a subscriber can initiate contact with a “lost cousin” though there’s no charge to register or reply to a message.
http://www.myheritage.com/ – Free genealogy search engine which looks for ancestors [with spelling variations] in hundreds of genealogy databases.
http://www.mytrees.com/ – $$$ This sites ancestry archive boasts 233 million names in pedigree files, or you can search a combination of databases on and off the site totaling 1 billion with one click. If you submit your own family tree, access if free.
http://www.rootsweb.com/ – This free network maintains loads of searchable databases, including the RootsWeb Surname List (RSL), WorldConnect and the SSDI. Its mailing lists and bulletin boards facilitate networking between genealogists.
http://www.sampubco.com/ – Browse and do free searches on a variety of indexes to wills, naturalization and intentions, guardianships and vital records. Order copies for a modest fee.
http://www.sources2go.com/ – More than 100,000 digitized government records, city directories, census enumerations and military records. Access the entire 1790 census for free as well as bounty-land warrants from 1815-1858. Lacks indexes, so be prepared to browse.
http://stevemorse.org/ – Clever tools let you search a few dozen genealogy database sites in a single step.
http://www.tribalpages.com/ – Free site lets you share, document, chart and illustrate your family tree online. More than 100,000 trees, a database of more than 80 million names and 1 million photos.
http://www.usgenweb.org/ – One of the most valuable sites for US researchers. There’s a site for each US county with links to archives, queries and county histories.
http://www.werelate.org/ – Lets you scour 6 million family history-related web pages, create and collaborate on pages and build an online tree.
http://worldvitalrecords.com/ – $$$ This site aims to ma e a web page for every deceased person and every location in the world. Thanks to a partnership with the Family History Library, you can access this site free at all Family History Centers.
