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- AATA Online (Abstracts of International Conservation Literature) - Getty Conservation Institute. Unregistered users can use the quick search, registration (free) is required to use advanced search. A simple search for daguerreotype, for example, retrieves 88 results, including Investigation of a surface tarnish found on 19th-century daguerreotypes, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 35, no. 1 (1996), pp. 9-21.
- Accelerated Indexing System (AIS) - "Microfiche master-index of U.S. census records, some tax rolls, and other miscellaneous records which were originally published in book form on a state-by-state basis. It includes all U.S. federal census indexes 1790-1850 with some later years included." Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, revised edition. Utah: Salt Lake City, 1997. (See additional description provided by the Cuyahoga Public Library.)
- Afrigeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy
- Allen County Public Library - Genealogy Department - Fort Wayne Indiana. Their Genealogy Center Info Database
- Family Bible Records
- Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana Resources
- Almanach de la Cour - "Compendium of articles on a variety of subjects, mostly connected with Orders of Chivalry, European Royal Houses, and the European Nobility."
- American Association for State and Local History - Among the Resources listed are links to state organizations, agencies, and associations.
- American Family Immigration History Center (AFIHC) - Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Volunteers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have transcribed the detailed passenger lists, known as ship manifests, of the more than 22 million immigrants who came to Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. You can search for individuals in Passenger Search. Some areas of this site require registration (free), others require membership in the Foundation.
- American Historical Society of Germans From Russia
- American-French Genealogical Society
- American Local History Network - "Central point of entry to independent web sites with historical or genealogical content."
- Amherst College Biographical Record (1821-1921) - Richard J. Yanco and assistants have transcribed over 2,490 biographies (of an eventual 9,782) of graduates and non-graduates of Amherst College. Browsable by
surname,
class year and
place.
- Ancestors - Companion site to PBS family history and genealogy television series.
Ancestry.com - Much of the site is available to members only but there are some useful free databases including the Social Security Death Index (60 million names) and the Ancestry World Tree (10 million names).
- Archives nationales du Québec (ANQ) - You may search the archives or PISTARD. Several of the databases described in Instruments de recherche en ligne, (Le Fichier des contrats de mariage de la région de Québec, 1761-1946, Inventaire des mariages non-catholiques de la région de Montréal 1766-1835 and Les demandes d'octrois gratuits de terre aux familles de 12 enfants vivants en vertu de la loi de 1890 du premier ministre Honoré Mercier) would be useful resources for genealogical research.
- Archives of ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU - Discussion list for archives & archivists.
- Archives of Maryland Online - "The first 72 volumes of this series were published between 1883 and 1972 by the Maryland Historical Society. They contain many of the official records of Maryland from 1634 to 1820. We have also added 30 additional volumes to this series in the past year. The website contains images of the originals as well as fully searchable text. This is a continuing project with the end goal of providing access to the legal history of Maryland up to the present day."
- Association of European Migration Institutions
- Association for Gravestone Studies - Greenfield, Massachusetts
- Black Families of the Ozarks
- 4 volumes with a keyword search. Greene County Archives & Records, Springfield, Missouri, Greene County Archives Bulletin Number 45.
- Brigham Young University - Salt Lake City
- Harold B. Lee Library - Has rich holdings in genealogy and history.
- BYU Family History Library
- L. Tom Perry Special Collections
- Veteran's History
- British Isles Family History Society
- British Library
- Catalogues
- India Office Family History Search - "Database contains 300,000 brief records for births, marriages, military and naval service, deaths, burials, baptisms, bonds, pensions, wills and brief biographies of Europeans in British India up to 1947."
- Wolley charters Catalogue - "search the 1039 Wolley charters. They range in date from 13th to the 18th century, although the majority are from the mid 13th to the late 14th century. They are mostly concerned with land transfers, wills and marriage settlements."
- United States Immigration, 1840-1940: A Selective Guide to Materials in the British Library - Edited by Jean Kemble, 2003.
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Eastern States, General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation - "Provides live database and image access to more than two million Federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908." There are links to State Resources for Research.
- Cemetery Records Online
- Census of Ireland 1901/1911 - National Archives of Ireland. "All thirty-two counties for 1901 and 1911, searchable by all information categories, are now available on this site. Corrections and improvements will be ongoing."
- Center for Archival Collections - Bowling Green State University. Bibliography
- Center for Research Libraries - Black newspapers, ethnic newspapers and foreign newspapers.
- Central New York Genealogical Society - With information on meetings and list of names in their Surname Project.
- Chinese-Canadian Genealogy - Vancouver Public Library
- Christine's Genealogy Website - Christine Cheryl Charity's comprehensive collection of African American genealogical resources.
- Cimorelli Immigration Manifests Online - Ship records from Pursuing Our Italian Names Together (PIE).
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - Database of more than 230,000 names of the United States Colored Troops (USCT); includes histories of units and regiments and links to the most significant battles.
- Collect Britain: Putting History in Place
- Colorado Digitization Program - The projects include: Heritage Colorado Collections, Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection, Colorado's Main Streets, Western Trails.
- Collected Visions - New York University Center for Advanced Technology project has over 2,200 images in a searchable archive of family snapshots.
- Colonial Connecticut Records - Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776. A joint project of the University of Connecticut Libraries and the Mashantucket Museum and Research Center.
- Colorado State Archives - Highlights include the Department of Corrections Mug Shot Collection (searchable and with Alphabetical Listing of Prisoners) and the extensive Online Indexes which should prove useful for genealogical research.
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Register provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars. Details of the 60,000 civilian casualties of the Second World War are also given.
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Cyndi Howells' list of over 100,000 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 150 categories.
- Czech Republic, Bohemia, and Moravia Genealogy Research - Greg Kopchak
- Daguerreian Society - "Dedicated to the history, science and art of the daguerreotype". There is also a Library of Congress site, America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864 which has more than 650 images, primarily portraits, searchable by keyword, or browsable by subject.
- Danish Emigration Archives - "Established in 1932 to record the history of those Danes who emigrated and to nurture cultural bonds among people throughout the world, who have their roots in Denmark. The Archives has a large collection of private letters, manuscripts, diaries, biographies, newspaper clippings, photographs, portraits, etc., and we have access to the emigration lists compiled by the Copenhagen Police from 1869 to 1940. These lists give the name, last residence, age, year of emigration and first destination of the emigrant. The records are in chronological order and a computerized data base is available for the years 1869 to 1904."
- Dead People Server - "Interesting celebrities who are, or might plausibly be dead."
- Deciphering Old Handwriting - From a course taught by Sabina J. Murray. (Part of the Treasure Maps site.)
- Digitalarkivet - University of Bergen site is a rich resource for Norwegian genealogy. Provides access to many records (marriages, church registers, baptisms, etc). See, in particular the Digital Inn which provides links to databases that are made by either organisations or persons outside the National Archives and Norwegian Emigration to USA: 1825-2000.
- 1895 Atlas Title Page - Pamela Rietsch is "entering data from an 1895 World Atlas into table format so those cities which someone cannot find in the 1880 census or the 1900 census, may be found here."
- Electric Scotland: A Guide to over 2000 Scottish Clans and Families.
- Electronic Card Indexes - Library of Virginia database provides genealogical information.
- Elektronische Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - You can search for names in this German database.
- Ellis Island - Offers a searchable database of Records with immigrants' names, port of origin, age, nationality, hometown and marital status. See also Ellis Island National Monument (National Park Service).
- Familia: UK and Ireland's guide to genealogical resources in public libraries - EARL: the Consortium for Public Library Networking
- Family History Newsline - Everton's Genealogical Helper.
- Family Search - This Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints genealogy site allows you to search for names. See Databases of the Dead, Erik Davis's article in the July 1999 Wired.
- Fédération des familles-souches québécoises
- Federation of East European Family History Societies
- Federation of Genealogical Societies
- Find A Grave - Jim Tipton's collection of grave sites of noteworthy people, searchable by name, country or claim to fame. Search 2.5 million burial records.in the Expanded Find A Grave database, which also has a Surname Index.
- Finding Public Land Sales in Illinois
- French Heraldry - François Velde. Includes information on Armory of Old Regime (pre-1789) French Peerage
- From the Netherlands to Australia Emigrants 1946-1991 - Database contains the names of over 50.000 Dutch emigrants. From the Dutch National Archives (Nationaal Archief).
- Genealogical Gleanings - Henry Soszynski. "Website devoted to Royalty and nobility in countries outside of Europe."
- GENDEX WWW Genealogical Index - Gene Stark's searchable index of over one million names.
- Genealogical Resources - Andrew J. Morris has a section on 19th Century Photography.
- Genealogy - History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers; Dennis Boals
- Genealogy Dictionary - Dorothy E. Stanley
- Genealogy Home Page - Stephen A. Wood's annotated list of over over 1600 resources
- Genealogy in Pennsylvania
- Genealogy Lady - Genealogy Consultant
- Genealogy Online
- GeneaNet: Genealogical Database Network - Searchable "list of surnames dating before 1850 which connect to addresses (Web, e-mail, or real world address) where whole works can be accessed."
- General Register Office for Scotland - "Responsible for the registration of births, marriages, deaths, divorces and adoptions in Scotland, and for carrying out periodic censuses of Scotland's population." It is a repository of parish registers from 1553 to 1854 containing births, baptisms, proclamations of banns and marriages and deaths and burials. Also contains a compulsory civil rigistration from 1855 and census records every ten years from 1841 to 1891.
- General Register Office - Roscommon, Ireland. "The General Register Office (Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora) is the central civil repository for records relating to Births, Deaths and Marriages in Ireland . It is concerned with civil registration matters only, and does not engage in Genealogical/Family History research.
Our records of marriages other than Roman Catholic marriages date back to 1st April 1845 . Records of Births, Deaths and Roman Catholic Marriages date back to 1st January 1864."
- GenForum - Searchable site has forums for surname, state, country or general topic where you can post a query, or see what others have posted.
- GenTree - Tim Doyle's index to all known searchable genealogical databases on the web
- GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy - Phil Stringer
- Georgia's Virtual Vault
- Gesamtkatalog deutschsprachiger Leichenpredigten (GESA) - Union catalog of personal names
- GNIS Database - To find cemeteries specify state and county and enter cemetery for Feature Type. You can also locate churches and a number of other features. (U. S. Geological Survey)
- Glenbow Library & Archives - Located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the Glenbow Library & Archives is one of Canada's largest non-governmental repositories, i In the CPR Database you can search sales of agricultural land by the Canadian Pacific Railway to settlers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1881-1906. The Main Catalog contains "descriptions of unpublished archival records (such as diaries, letters, and minute books) for over 3000 families and organizations in southern Alberta." Provides Finding Aids.
- German and German-American Genealogy - List of resources compiled by librarians at the University of Minnesota includes Swiss and Austrian Sources.
- Gravestone Iconography in West Virginia - Briane Turley
- Handbook of Texas Online - "Multi-disciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories." A joint project of the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.
- Hemmingford, Quebec Cemetery Records - Search or browse this database of over 6,000 records compiled by Garry and Jeannie Bickes from readable gravestone inscriptions at 20 cemeteries in Hemmingford, Quebec. Death dates range from 1808 to 1994.
- Henley Marriage and Obituary Index - Fully searchable database of more than 45,000 marriage and obituary entries published between 1780 and 1876, with special emphasis on the years 1780 to 1830, obtained from Virginia newspapers, (primarily Richmond and Norfolk). From the Library of Virginia, a rich resource for genealogical information.
- Heraldica: François Velde's Heraldry Site
- Heraldry on the Internet - James Wolf
- Historic Congressional Cemetery - Obituaries and Death Notices - Over 17,000 death notices representing approximately 1/2 of those interred in this District of Columbia cemetery, primarily from The National Intelligencer (through 1854) and The Evening Star (from 1854).
- Historical Demographic, Economic and Social Data of the US - Between 1790 and 1970.
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Search the online catalog for items on immigration in the Balch Institute Library and Archives. A few examples:
- A Dutch heritage : 200 years of Dutch presence in the Windsor-Detroit border region / by Joan Magee
- Italians in Toronto : development of a national identity, 1875-1935 / John E. Zucchi.
- Ethnic Rochester / edited with an introduction by James S. Pula
- A historical documentary of the Ukrainian community of Rochester, New York / by James D. Bratush ; translated by Anastasia Smerychynska
- HistoryNet - Has an excellent collection of History Day Links, organized by state.
- How to Preserve Old and Brittle Newspaper Clippings - From Make Stuff.
- How to Research Your Italian Ancestry - 437 useful addresses and information.
- Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database - Illinois State Archives
- Immigration History Research Center - University of Minnesota. Has a section with links to Family History Resources on the Internet.
- Index of Early American Periodicals - Microfilm collection must be purchased, but you can view list of titles for 1741-1800, 1800-1850.
- Index to Supreme Court Cases, 1704-1844 - "This database consists of roughly 65,000 entries indexing cases heard by the Supreme Court of New Jersey during the time period 1704-1844. Currently, all cases are indexed by plaintiff and defendant. The year is included in the index for about 96.5% of the entries. County and case type are included for only 60% of the entries at present."
- Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850 - Indiana State Library Genealogy Division
- International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) - Provides links to Jewish Genealogical Societies.
- International Jewish Cemetery Project - Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
- Irish Ancestors - Search for Placenames (free) or Family Names ($5.00 fee)
- Irish Genealogy - Church records of baptisms, marriages and burials. "You can now view nearly 3 million pre-1900 church records free of charge."
- Italian Genealogy Home Page
- Jamestowne Society
- JewishGen - "Official home of Jewish Genealogy"
- Kinship - Genealogy publishers. See their New York Research Tips
- Lancaster County Historical Society - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.There are over 60,000 names in the Name Index for the Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society.
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Library of Virginia
- Library of Virginia Digital Collections - Provides access to birth, death, marriage, military and land records.
- Cohabitation Registers - Register of Colored Persons…cohabiting together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866. "Images of certain cohabitation registers are available here, along with accompanying full-text searchable transcriptions (pdf) of each."
- Virginia Colonial Records Project - "Database provides access to information about historical documents relating to the colonial period in the Commonwealth of Virginia" and "contains more than five-hundred thousand (500,000) personal- name and ship-name entries."
- Libweb: Library Servers via WWW - Thomas Dowling's list is updated daily and currently lists over 2000 pages from libraries in over 70 countries.
- Lib-web-cats: Library Web Pages, Online Catalogs, and System Profiles - Over 4,000 libraries worldwide. Maintained by Marshall Breeding, Technology Analyst for the Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.
- Local History and Genealogy Reading Room - Library of Congress site has a number of useful guides for genealogical research including Afro-American Genealogical Research and
Sources for Research in Welsh Genealogy.
- Local Ireland - Guide to all things Irish, it has a Genealogy section with forums for each county.
- Louisa's World: the 1815 Diary of a Dartmouth Nova Scotia Farm Girl, Louisa Collins, of Colin Grove, Dartmouth - "With Genealogy in Context and a Look at Country Life in the Regency Period." (Brook House Press, Dartmouth, NS)
- Making of America - Digital library of primary sources consists of books and journal volumes between 1850 and 1877. The University of Michigan "collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles. Although searching is a bit challenging this is an excellent source for genealogical research. Here are some sample titles:
- Early wills of Westchester County, New York, from 1664 to 1784: also the genealogy of "The Havilands" of Westchester County, and descendants of Hon. James Graham (Watkinson and Ackerley families) with genealogical and historical notes (1898) - By William S. Pelletreau, Frederick Haviland, New York (State). Surrogate's Court (New York County), et al.
- Revised history of Harlem (City of New York): its origin and early annals, prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration.: Also, sketches of numerous families, and the recovered history of the land-titles (1904) ... by James Riker. Good resource for locating genealogical information on early settlers in New York. For example, the appendix has an extended article on the Bogert family on pages 447-475.
- A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register by James Savage, 4 vols., 1860-62.
- Mayflower Web Pages - Caleb Johnson
- Medal of Honor Citations - Full-text listings of more than 3,400 Medal of Honor citations since 1861 from the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
- Memento Mori: Death and Photography in Nineteenth Century America - Dan Meinwald, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
- Michigan County Histories - "The Michigan County Histories collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library Directors. The collection is projected to provide access to 192 histories dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 202 volumes in 170 titles currently online."
- Migration and Ethnic Relations - A World Wide Web Virtual Library site maintained by the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations.
- Migrations
- Missouri Digital Heritage
- Missouri Death Certificates< /a> - 2.2 million death certificates searchable by name, county or by date.
- Local Records Inventory Database - "Compilation of inventories of local government records identified as having permanent or enduring value and housed primarily in county and municipal offices, but includes some libraries, museums, and historical and genealogical societies that maintain government records."
- MSNBC's Exploring Our Roots - With links to the best resources and other useful material.
- Municipal Archives of the City of New York
- National Academies Press - Has Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering for:
- Volume 1 (1979)
- Volume 2 (1984)
- Volume 3 (1989)
- Volume 4 (1991)
- Volume 5 (1992)
- Volume 6 (1993)
- Volume 7 (1994)
- Volume 8 (1996)
- Volume 9 (2001)
- Volume 10 (2002)
- Het Nationaal Archief - The Netherlands
- National Archives and Records Administration
- NAIL (Nara Archival Information Locator) - Searchable database that contains information about a wide variety of NARA's holdings across the country
- Chinese Immigration and Chinese in the United States - National Archives and Records Administration
- Clues in Census Records
- Genealogy Page
- Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals
- Index of Revolutionary War Pensions - National Archives, Washington D.C., 1979. Submitted between 1818 and 1932 and indexed by name. See Military Service Records at the National Archives a 129 page guide (Reference Information Paper 109) compiled by Trevor K. Plante in 2007; Pensions; and Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233).
- Genealogists/Family Historians
- Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration - With selected full-text articles. The Summer 1997 Special Issue: Federal Records and African American History has 16 articles on the use of federal records in African American historical research.
- Naturalization Records - For the
Central Plains region contains such resources as Name Index to Naturalizations for District of Kansas (1868-1984) and Name Index to Naturalization Records from Dakota Territory and South Dakota
- Soundex Machine - Obtain the Soundex code for a name in this index provided by the National Archives and Records Administration. (Surname index based on the way a name sounds rather than the way it is spelled.) See also SOUNDEX Code Generator and Immigration List Index from Cimorelli.
- National Archives of Canada - With Online Exhibitions and ArchiviaNet, "an automated research tool that allows you to access a vast amount of information from various databases and automated systems." There are Immigration Records (1925 - 1935) which consists of passenger list indexes and includes over 500,000 records which you can search by Surname, Given Name, Year of Arrival, Port of Arrival and Ship. Other genealogical databases include Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario, Dominion Land Grants (1870-1930), Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force and Home Children.
- National Archives of Ireland - Features a searchable Transportation Record of convicts sent from Ireland to Australia between 1788 and 1868, an Archives of the Ordnance Survey containing searchable lists of records and documents produced in the 19th century and including an index of parish names, and a section on Family History and Genealogy.
- National Archives of Norway - Offers access to census and death records in the Digital Archive.
- National Genealogical Society - Located in Arlington, Virginia, the Society sponsors the Family History Writing Contest and provides a searchable Project Registry, a database of genealogical and family history projects. There is a Site Map and a list of NGS Awards & Competitions
Past Winners, including the The Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship, "named for the late P. William Filby, formerly the Director of the Maryland Historical Society and the author of many of the core genealogical reference tools that genealogists have relied on for decades."
- National Register of Archives - Indexes to the creators of manuscript sources for British history, the NRA "consists of more than 43,000 unpublished lists and catalogues of major manuscript collections, and approximately 150,000 further lists of miscellaneous and minor collections." The lists, which "describe the holdings of local record offices, national and university libraries, specialist repositories, museums and other bodies," are searchable by personal, corporate or place names.
- National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - Searchable via RLIN AMC File Advanced Search Form, an Easy Search Form (word list) and an Easy Search Form (left-anchored phrase).
- Navy Historical Center - U.S. Navy site has a Virtual Library and an online catalog.
- New England Historic Genealogical Society - Located in Boston, the Society provides information on events, tours and research. The Library is a valuable resource with many useful guides, however membership is required to access much of the material on the site.
- New Jersey Division of Archives & Records Management (NJDARM) - In the New Jersey State Archives are Imaged Collections, Index to Supreme Court Cases and information on Genealogical Holdings.
- New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) - Birth certificates and Death certificates can be obtained from the Bureau of Vital Records.
- New York Genealogical & Biographical Society - Has an online resource center.
- New York Genealogy
- Manhattan Blue Book 1930 - Names & addresses of prominent residents. Transcribed by Miriam Medina; she has amassed a considerable collection of directories including
- 1895 Dressmakers in Brooklyn
- New York State Library - Genealogy
- New York Welsh Home Page (Gwefan Cymraeg Efrog Newydd) - Lawyer Paul Graves maintains this site, "dedicated to providing comprehensive coverage of the activities and organizations of the Welsh Community in New York City and its environs, as well as general information on Wales, Welsh culture and other interesting Welsh-oriented links."
- Newspaper Abstracts - Newspaper abstracts and extracts from U.S., Canada and Ireland, primarily published before 1923. These are clippings of birth, marriage and death announcements and other events (Hancock Herald, Delaware Co., NY, September 01 [1904] Rock Valley--Mr. and Mrs. SNYDER took their son Fred to Hancock to get an abcess lanced. He is now improving). These clippings are submitted by volunteers. The New York section, for example, organized by counties, includes a good collection of abstracts and extracts for Monroe County. The site is searchable but the results are not particularly useful because there is no option for doing a phrase search.
- Norwegian-American Collection - National Library, Oslo. The Thor M. Andersen bibliography gives references to more than 50000 documents, periodical and newspaper articles by or about Norwegian-Americans, together with biographical information on the authors.
- Obituary Daily Times - Index of published obituaries.
- Obituary Index - "An index to over 1,600,000 obituaries, death & marriage notices & other sources from Ohio from the 1810s to the present day." Provided by the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center.
- Odessa: a German-Russian Genealogical Library - Roger Ehrich
- Ohio Historical Society - Columbus
- Online Library Catalog
- Ohio Death Certificate Index, 1913 - 1944
- War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers
- OMII Genealogy Project & Kidron Heritage Center - Robert N. Geiser's site has information on a Swiss Mennonite & German Amish genealogy project and provides access to 3 databases with over 600,000 individuals.
- Online Genealogy Resources - Cook Memorial Public Library, Libertyville, Illinois.
- Pacific Information Resources: Searchable Public Record Databases - This excellent resource (not limited to the Pacific states) will lead you to a wealth of public record databases.
- Palatine & Pennsylvania-Dutch Genealogy Page - Kraig Ruckel
- Palatines to America - "Researching all German-Speaking Ancestry", Ken McCrea's site has an On-line Immigrant Ancestor Register Index
- Peel's Prairie Provinces - University of Alberta Libraries.
- Henderson's Directories - "Addresses of citizens and businesses dating as far back as 1905."
- Newspaper Collection
- Polish Genealogical Society of America
- Political Graveyard - Lawrence Kestenbaum's database of historic cemeteries
- Preserving Family Albums - George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick (Canada) - Search Vital Statistics (688,446 records) and RS686 - Index to New Brunswick Land Grants [1784 - 1997] (54,017 records).
- ROOTS-L: The Internet's First Genealogy Mailing List - Karen Isaacson's genealogy mailing list; searchable archive
- RAND Genealogical Club - Offers a searchable Roots Surname List
- Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham's listing of over 3500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Robertson Hospital Register - "84-page handwritten logbook of Civil War patients admitted between August 3, 1861 and April 2, 1865. There are 1,329 entries in the register, each assigned a case number. Each entry contained the following information on the patient (note that not every entry contains data for every category): case number, rank, name, company, regiment, captain's name, residence, date admitted, disease, and date discharged. All of these fields are indexed and are searchable."
- RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative - Organized by State.
- Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 - State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
- Royal Commission on Historical Documents - With access to the Manorial Documents Register (MDR), a register of English and Welsh manorial documents, partly available on-line.
- Royal Genealogies - Henry Churchyard
- Social Security Death Index - Ancestry.com
- Société de généalogie et d'archives de Rimouski
- Society of Genealogists - London organization provides Essential Addresses and article and surname indexes to the Genealogists' Magazine (1925-96).
- Stammbaum-Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research
- Sveriges Släktforskarförbund | Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies
- Tennessee History and Genealogy - Provided by the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
- Tombstone Transcription Project - U.S. GenWeb site has a State Registry
- Tombstone Traveller's Guide: Exploring American Cemeteries and Funeral Practices - ChrisTina Leimer.
- UK Family History Online (Familyrecords.gov) - UK portal provided by consortium made up of The Public Record Office, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, National Archives of Scotland, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales, General Register Office, General Register Office for Scotland and British Library India Office.
- United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 21st - Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections.
- United States Newspaper Program - "Cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present." Has contact information and links to state participants. Provides contact information and links for most states.
- USGenWeb Project - "Volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States"
- Utah Digital Newspapers - 500,000 pages from over 50 different newspapers. University of Utah. See Bringing he Past to the Present by John Herbert and Karen Estlund, Online, July/August, 2008. Many of the papers have a Genealogical Browse feature which allows you to browse all births, marriages and deaths.
- Virginia Confederate Disability Applications and Receipts (Artificial Limbs) - Library of Virginia database provides information on Civil War veterans including the command in which they served, when, where, and how they were wounded, and details about their medical history. "Database of disability applications is searchable by the name of the Confederate veteran and by the veterans' places of residence (city or county). In addition, each entry contains links to the digitized images of the actual disability application, including supporting affidavits and receipts for payments issued. There are more than 6,000 entries in the database, linked to more than 24,000 application images digitized from microfilm."
- Virginia Historical Society - Provides access to online catalog.
- Vital Records Information - United States - Elizabeth T. Orsay.
- Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes and Plat Maps - "The survey of Wisconsin was conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office."
- Women and Female children of the Royal Admiral 1792 - Cathy Dunn provides information on convicts, settlers wives, convicts wives and infants who arrived in Australia on the Royal Admiral in 1792.
- World Biographical Index