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Links to websites useful for genealogy research |
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Online sites and servers come and go frequently. These links were accurate as of 22 May 2005. These Web sites listed include government, private, and commercial sites. The Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group does not endorse any commercial sites or advertisements. Users should exercise caution in responding to such page elements as banner ads indicating, for example, that computer or access speed needs upgrading or that messages await you. And do not be sidetracked by popup and popunder ads. (In fact, we recommend installing popup blockers; Google's toolbar has a popup blocker.) Select by topic or scroll through link list: Address searching Libraries and archives (return to list) (top of page) BYU Library www.lib.byu.edu/hbll CA Digital Library www.cdlib.org/ HYTEL www.lights.com/hytelnet Library of Congress online catalog catalog.loc.gov Library of Congress lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html Library of Congress Local History and Genealogy Reading Room Library of Virginia www.lva.lib.va.us/ Libweb sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ Los Angeles Main Public Library www.lapl.org/ National Archival Information Locator (NAIL) for National Archives and Records National Archives search engine by state Online copy of U.S. Census Bureau's Factfinder for the Nation, a newsletter issue Digital images of original records (return to list) (top of page) National Archival Information Locator (NAIL) for National Archives and Records U.S. Census records www.nara.gov/publications/microfilm/census/census.html Indices, collections, databases, and manuscripts Bureau of Land Management www.glorecords.blm.gov (site inoperative temporarily) Library of Virginia Digital Library www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm Mayflower and other early families www.mayflowerfamilies.com/ Medal of Honor Citations (U.S.) www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm National Register of Archives (NRA) search engine to indices Gedcom databases (return to list) (top of page) Gendex www.gendex.com/ Online Genealogical Database Index www.gentree.com/gentree.html Presidents Database (slow to load -- be patient!) www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/presidents/presidents.html RootsWeb World Connect worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ Royal Genealogies ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html Search engines (return to list) (top of page) All the Web www.alltheweb.com/ Alta Vista www.altavista.com/ Ask Jeeves www.askjeeves.com/ Bigfoot www.bigfoot.com/ Google.com www.google.com/ InfoSpace.com in-132.infospace.com/ KnowX.com (public records on the Web) www.knowx.com/ Search.com www.search.com/ Yahoo! yahoo.com/ Genealogy-dedicated searching (return to list) (top of page) Ancestry.com (commercial service; available free at Family History Centers) www.ancestry.com Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet www.cyndislist.com/ Cyndi's List of Surnames, Family Associations and Newsletters Index FamilySearch, LDS Church's search engine for the IGI, Ancestral File, Pedigree Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) www.feefhs.org/ GenForum genforum.genealogy.com/ GenSource www.gensource.com Pedigree Resource File at the LDS FamilySearch site; a large, lineage-linked Native Web www.nativeweb.com/resources/genealogy_tracing_roots/ RootsWeb www.rootsweb.com ZLinks at ZRoots.com zroots.com/links.htm GenWeb (return to list) (top of page) GenWeb Project for the British Isles (United Kingdom and Ireland), Part of the U.K. GenWeb project for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, U.S. Gen Web Archives www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ U.S. state GenWeb projects with information organized by counties World GenWeb Project www.worldgenweb.org/ Surname listings (return to list) (top of page) Cyndi's List of Surnames, Family Associations and Newsletters Index One-Name Studies www.one-name.org/ RootsWeb Surname List rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi People search sites, addresses (some $) (return to list) (top of page) Any Who Info www.anywho.com/ Classmates.com www.classmates.com/ Internet @ddress.finder (commercial) www.iaf.net/ Switchboard-Searchable Telephone Directory www.switchboard.com/ Telephone Directories on the Web www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/engl WhoWhere? People Finder www.whowhere.lycos.com/ Yahoo! People Search people.yahoo.com/ Zip Code look-up and address information zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp Foreign addresses and phone books (return to list) (top of page) Canada 411 canada411.sympatico.ca/ Das Elektronische Telefonbuch (Switzerland) tel.search.ch/ Elektronisches Telefonbuch im Internet (Austria) www.etb.at/ Hellenic Telephone Directories (Greece) www.hellasyellow.gr/ Les Pages Jaunes (France; for the English version, click on the British flag at the top Páginas Amarillas Online (Spain) www.paginas-amarillas.es/home.html PhoneNetUK (United Kingdom) www.bt.com/directory-enquiries/dq_home.jsp Telefonski imenik Slovenije (Slovenia) tis.telekom.si/ White Pages OnLine (Australia) www.whitepages.com.au/wp/ WebRings (return to list) (top of page) Cyndi's List Web Rings for Genealogy www.cyndislist.com/webrings.htm Topical genealogy WebRings
Geographical WebRing Surname WebRings Queries (return to list) (top of page) Czeching Out Our Ancestors (w/music) www.iarelative.com/czech/search.htm YourFamily.com www.yourfamily.com E-mail and archiving (return to list) (top of page) Beginner's Guide to Effective E-mail www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html Cyndi's List: Newsgroups www.cyndislist.com/newsgrps.htm Everything E-mail everythingemail.net/ Google.com groups.google.com/ ListServ.Indiana.edu listserv.indiana.edu/archives/index.html RootsWeb www.rootsweb.co E-mail lists (return to list) (top of page) Roots Web.com free, general purpose search facility with access to more than 850,000 Web-based e-mail accounts (free) (return to list) (top of page) Hotmail www.hotmail.com Netzero www.netzero.net Yahoo! www.yahoo.com News source (return to list) (top of page) Excite www.excite.com Google News news.google.com/ Dictionaries and translation (return to list) (top of page) Deciphering old handwriting amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html Dictionary of Mountain Talk www.tngenweb.org/franklin/franfolk.htm FreeTranslation.com www.freetranslation.com/ Genealogical Abbreviations www.geocities.com/jameson-one/abbreviations.html Land Terminology www.tngenweb.org/tnland/terms.htm Metes and bounds: Tennessee's Old Time Survey System Old Handwriting Styles (Go to Subjects, scroll down in the top frame for Church OneLook Dictionaries www.onelook.com/ Travlang's Translating Dictionaries dictionaries.travlang.com/ Your Dictionary www.yourdictionary.com/ Records (return to list) (top of page) BRB Publications, Inc. (public record research library) www.brbpub.com/ Public Record Sources www.publicrecordsources.com/ Bookmark listing service (return to list) (top of page) Backflip.com www.backflip.com/ Calendar and Online Storage Sites ($) (return to list) (top of page) @BACKUP www.backup.com Connected Online Backup www.connected.com Schedule Online scheduleonline.com Xdrive Inc. www.xdrive.com Yahoo Calendar calendar.yahoo.com Instruction and lessons (return to list) (top of page) Beginner's Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses www.tngenweb.org/cntylinks/tutorial.html Brigham Young University independent study courses in family history Genealogy Lessons www.ancestry.com/learn/main.htm ($) Utah Valley PAF Users Group, our sister/brother group; links and educational tools Family history software, PC (noncommercial) Search sites ($) (return to list) (top of page) 1-800-USSEARCH ($) www.1800ussearch.com People Finder.com ($) www.people-finder.com/ Reference (return to list) (top of page) My Reference Desk www.refdesk.com/index.html |
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