Tracing your family tree is a much simpler task with the help of the Internet. Where once you would have had to research, collect and wade through piles of family documents, old newspapers and court records, you now can do a little typing and clicking and get volumes more information!
If you were unable to find all of the information you were looking for in the Genealogy Search section, the sites below will give you information on additional genealogy resources: census information, reunion registry and searchable database, deceased relative search, lists of genealogy sites, links to family tree software and more.
Screened Fee Sites:
Family Tree Maker Software
Free Family Tree Software
BirthQuest - Search the entire BirthQuest shareware database for adoptee information using birth dates, birth mother's name, adoptee city of birth and hospital and more. All possible registrations meeting your criteria will show up in a grid. Click on the REG ID of the most suitable registrations for more detailed information. Some photos of reigstrants are available.
Brother's Keeper - Brother's Keeper is a Windows-based genealogy shareware program that will help you organize your family history information and let you print a large variety of charts and reports. Each database can hold 1 million names. Attach sources to events and pictures to people. Large message area for each person. Prints ancestor charts - 4 to 6 generations per page.
Census Online - Free database of 40,000 names. This started out as a census transcription project but other types of databases such as tax lists, Civil War soldier lists and marriage records are being added. This is an ongoing database project.
- A categorized & cross-referenced index to internet resources.
- A list of 73,400 links to genealogical research sites online.
- A free jumping-off point for you to use in your online research.
- A card catalog to the genealogical collection on the internet.
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Cyndi's List - Search It!
Enter a keyword (surname, place name) then click Find!
Family Reunion - The Reunion Calendar functions much the same way most search engines on the Internet. Click on the small white window in the Reunion Calendar search box, enter keywords such as a family name, city, state, country or year and click on the gold-colored search reunion announcements button. Reunions that contain your keywords are sorted by date and instantly returned five-per-page in your browser.
I Found It! - Search I Found It! to locate genealogy sites on the internet. You may use the I Found It! search engine to locate pages on surnames, one-name studies, ship passenger lists, genealogical societies and associations, researchers, software, books, family mailing lists, online records of churches, census data and cemeteries.
I Found It! Archives - I Found It! Archives indexes websites containing actual historical records. Many individuals have taken the time to transcribe records and placed them on the net for your use. The contents of these sites is indexed to assist you with your research.
Internet Genealogical Directory - An international directory (with emphasis on French and American content) with categories in associations, bookshops, bulletins, databases, deposits of files, families history, federations, heraldry, history, libraries, magazines, obituary, paleography, personal pages, professional genealogists, research centers, softwares authors and sigillography.
JewishGen®, Inc. - the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. Its most popular components are the JewishGen Discussion Group, the JewishGen Family Finder (a database of over 200,000 surnames and towns), the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, and a variety of databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland. JewishGen's online Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on over one million people.
UK Kith and Kin - UK's number 1 genealogy software, Kith and Kin is a Windows package for documenting and storing family trees. Kith and Kin is a robust and simple to use genealogy program compatible with PAF, GEDCOM files. This is a good program if you are the least bit interested in researching the genealogical history of your family. It is easy enough for the beginner and casual data collector, yet has enough bells and whistles to set it apart from other programs and make your work seem like the fun it should be.
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Scots' Origins - The 'Scots Origins' database is the official searching site of the Registrar General for Scotland. It permits users to access index entries to historical records in the care of the General Register Office for Scotland at our headquarters in Edinburgh. The site at present contains nearly 30 million index entries to the registers of births/baptisms and marriages for the years 1553 to 1899, of deaths for 1855 to 1924, and to the 1891 census returns for Scotland. (Registration required to search the index.)
The Records Room - The Records Room brings together vital and military record links and information available in print, CD-ROM and online into a single searchable directory. Records are the cornerstone of genealogy research, from them clues become fact, public information becomes personal and the family tree springs new roots. This site simplifies obtaining vital and military documents from United States counties.
Roots Web - The WorldConnect Project: a set of tools which allow users to upload, modify, link, and display their family trees as a means to share their work with other researchers. Mailing lists: people with like interests get together and exchange genealogical data and finds. The GenConnect System: boards where you can post your transcribed wills, pensions, obituaries, Bible pages, deeds and biographies.
Salvation Army Family Tracing Service - The Salvation Army runs a Family Tracing Service (also known as Missing Persons Service or Missing Persons Bureau) whose prime purpose is to reunite people in families who wish to find each other
Social Security Death Index - Ancestry.com offers you the most powerful and up to date Social Security Death Index on the Internet! Best of all, the collection is available free for Ancestry.com subscribers and guests. The database contains information provided by the Social Security Administration through the end of 29/10/2000 and contains 64,551,696 records.
Surname Springboard - The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive listing of surname genealogy sites which have "indexed" Family Trees on them. It is dedicated to researchers who have placed their genealogy data on-line to be viewed by other genealogists. Thanks to all who have contributed their Home Page Listings to make this site successful.
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