Useful Information and URLs

• Favorite search engine http://www.google.com/
• Genealogical google search engine http://www.genealogy-search-help.com
• Easy Google Genealogy Searcher http://searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html
• Another search engine...groups findings http://vivisimo.com/
• Index for all rootswebs genealogical lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/
• Genforum....a computer "bulletin board " for most surnames http://www.genforum.com/
• Usgenweb.....use the state archives search engine to see what has been posted for all the states...and please submit your own information and do your part! Be a giver as well as a taker http://www.usgenweb.com/
• Usgenweb archives and special projects http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/
• Typing Symbols on your Computer

• Bible records www.biblerecords.com/surnames.html
• National Genealogical Society...(has book lending capacity) http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
• How to find the address of any courthouse http://www.genealogy.com/countlst.html
• Locating geographic place names http://genealogy.about.com/cs/places
• A list to subscribe to, to get the newest submissions to the Genweb archives DAILY-UPLOADS-L-request@rootsweb.com (just send a subscribe email to this address)
• Obituary Search http://www.obitlinkspage.com/obit/links.htm
• Masonic Abbreviations http://www.bessel.org/abbrevs.htm
• Family Tree Maker CD Viewer that is Free and can be downloaded from:
  http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/abtffiv.html (for viewing FTM CDs)
• Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/
• Prints and photographs online http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
• Allen County Library http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/
• Genealogical research at the National Archives http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/
• The American Family Immigration History Center on the Web http://www.ellisisland.org/sign/index.asp
• American Philosophical Society Library (in Philly) http://www.amphilsoc.org/library
• Social Security Death Index http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.ht
• Hyper dictionary http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dict-e
• Guide to specialized search engines http://www.searchability.com/
• America's first families (has an interesting section on fradulent family trees) http://www.linkline.com/personal/xymox/
• Colonial money http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyIntros/IntroValue.html
• Inflation Calculator http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/

• Calculating birth dates http://www.obitcentral.com/calc.htm
• Random acts of genealogical kindness http://www.raogk.org/
• Foreign language translator http://www.babel.altavista.com/tr
• Ellis Island Records http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
• A URL that contains photos of the different organizational Flag holders found in cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/flaghold/flaghold.htm
• Accessible archives....periodicals http://www.accessible.com/accessible
• Post your family migration http://www.migragtions.org/index.html
• Migration trails http://www.mcn.org/2/noel/Westmoreland/MigrationTrails.htm
• Digital library of American Society of History..antebellum to reconstruction http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
• For local info via the yellowpages; ie: funeral homes, cemeteries. etc http://local.yahoo.com/
• White pages http://www.theultimates.com/white/
• German genealogy http://www.genealogienetz.de/gene/genealogy.html
• Historical timelines http://www.ourtimelines.com
• West Nottingham Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cecil County MD. http://www.idreamof.com/cemetery/md/cecil/nottingham.html
• Where to find vital statistics http://www.vitalrec.com
• Mid Atlantic Archives http://www.midatlanticarchives.com/

• DAR lookup site http://www.dar.org/natsociety/default.html
  On the main page there is a menu on the right, look for Patriotic lookup.

• Soundex Coding http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/soundex/.html
• Locating Books in Libraries http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

• Old Newspapers http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/search_directory_advanced.html

• Deciphering Old Handwriting http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/alphabets.html

• A Rootsweb soundex converter site http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter">
• Where to buy census records http://www.censusmicrofilm.
• Institute of Historical Research http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/welcome.html
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html#gov2

• William and Mary Quarterly http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/wmmaryqtr/index.htm

• Books we own (free lookups ) http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/index.html#Library

• FTM CDs free lookups (don't miss this one!) http://www.loricase.com/CDs/cdlist.html

• Cecil County 1830 Federal Census Transcription - 1st Election District http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/md/cecil/census/1830

• Deciphering old handwriting http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html

• Various Articles from The Cecil Whig, Elkton, 1883 http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/cecil/newspapers/whig1883.txt

• BOOKS ONLINE - 15,000+ listings of FREE full text public domain works online. Search by author, title, subject, serials. Genealogists might check the regional history subject listing. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
• WPA http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
• American Life Histories (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

• History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania., Henry Graham Ashmead, 1884, L. H. Everts & Co, Philadelphia http://www.delcohistory.org http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead
• How to find any county http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi

• Reading old handwriting http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi

• Age of Majority

• Area Public House Information

• Christman Diary 1863

• Christmas in Philly

• Cobb Creek Bridge

• Early Cave Dwellings

• Early Penn Land Grants

• Epidemics and Illness

• Free Labor Stores

• Land Terms

• Legal Terms

• Lodge 69

• Murder of Indians

• Occupations

• Patronymic Naming Patterns

• Tradesmen

• Granges

• Passengers and Ships

• Pauperism in Chester County

• This is a neat site, used to tell the distance between 2 places. http://www.indo.com/tips/distances.html

• Interactive Map to Track Immigration

• Sites for DEEDMAPPING software
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcaggni/caggninf/meetings/2000/may.htm
  
  http://www.directlinesoftware.com
  

• Uncle Hiram's Adventures in Genealogy www.hocuttaig.blogspot.com

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This page updated on April 15, 2009