Teaching Resources include general sites that are excellent and have lots of links, too many to include on each subject page such as this.
Searching the Internet lists some seach engines and directory sites. Since each one has its own "flavor," try as many as you have time for — each one should come up with different links. |
General |
- Ahnenforschung.Net
(German genealogies)
- Ancestor News
(free, informative sletter: "an E-mail letter that brings
current news, information, and tips on Internet genealogy free to your E-mail
box")
- Ancestral
Findings- It's Like Finding Treasure ("free genealogy lookups: birth,
census, death, marriage, veterans, ship passengers, etc.")
- Ancestry.com
- The #1 Source for Family History Online ("the best collection of
family history how-to and learning materials on the Internet - and it's FREE!
Browse archives of Ancestry Magazine, Ancestry Daily s, and our popular
online columnists.")
- Cemetery
Records Online ("the leading genealogical resource for burial records
and tombstone inscriptions. Here you will find online records from over 1,400
cemeteries all over the world.")
- DistantCousin.com
("The Comprehensive Genealogy Site")
- FamilySearch
- Internet Genealogy Services (one of the best
... by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
- Family
Tree Maker's Genealogy Site (how-to articles, searchers, links, etc.)
- Find
A Grave ("See the graves of thousands of famous people from
around the world.")
- Genealogy.com
("The leading resource for family history")
- GeneaSearch.com
("announcement of sites, beginner's guide, and much more.
Also available are free genealogy tools, links, 1-Stop Free Shop, and lists
of societies.")
- Gengateway.com
("genealogy gateway to the web" ... guides, links and gateways to
searching)
- GenSwap
- Free Online Genealogy Data and More! ("the place to help you solve
all those puzzling genealogy questions you have on your ancestors. Here we
focus on helping you find free genealogy data! Whatever you are looking for,
we hope you find it here!")
- Lineages'
Genealogy Site ("Free Genealogy Queries ... No Limits! No Charge!")
- Oz's
Kingdom: People - Biographies (& genealogy ... lots of links, teacher
resources, etc.)
- RootsWeb.com
("the oldest and largest free genealogy site" ... search
by Social Security number)
- SurnameWeb
("uniting families around the world" ... free storage space for
personal records)
- Vital
Records Information for the United States ("information about where
to obtain vital records {such as birth, death & marriage certificates
and divorce decrees} from each state, territory and county of the United States"
... outside the U.S.: foreign
vital records web sites)
- Wall
of Honor (names of immigrants who came through Ellis Island that have
been inscribed on the wall ... search for a name)
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Directories |
- About.com:
Genealogy (excellent, expansive directory)
- Absolute
Authority: genealogy (links, books, autorities, searches, software, etc.)
- Census
Online (links to "census sites on the Web")
- Cyndi's
List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet ("More than 62,600
links! 50,400 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in
over 120 categories ... Another 12,150+ uncategorized links in the works")
- Firstmom's
Genealogy Resources and Records Website ("over 2000 genealogy links,
mostly to sites which contain records such as: birth, death, church, cemetery,
census and so on. Most pages, especially states and countries, contain 60
or more links.")
- Janet's
Genealogy Site ("We tried to collect only the most useful sites and
categorize them into something workable.")
- Surname
Search Databases ("Search All The Major Genealogy Surname Databases
From This Page")
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Software |
- About.com:
Genealogy (software,
graphics,
supplies, etc.)
- Absolute
Authority: genealogy (links, books, autorities, searches, software, etc.)
- Cyndi's
List of Software & Computers (excellent, extensive source of links)
- 4anything.com:
genealogy (links, books, searches, software, etc.)
- Genealogy
Homepage Software (free, shareware and commercial $oftware)
- Genealogy
Software SpringBoard (free, shareware and commercial $oftware)
- ProgramFiles.com
(free and shareware software)
- ShadCat's
Free Genealogy Listings (software, resources, associations, US, foreign,
etc.)
- TUCOWS
(free, shareware and commercial $oftware ... after search, type in
"genealogy" and click on go)
- SoftSeek.com
(free, shareware and commercial $oftware)
- ZDNet
(free and shareware)
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