Menlo Park California FamilySearch Center/Resources/Research Documents/Notes on Search Paths Websites

MAIN FREE &/OR KEY WEBSITES

AccessGenealogy.com

AccessGenealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com/

Native Americans http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/

Black Genealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com/black_genealogy/

Cemetery Records http://www.accesgenealogy.com/cemetery/

Census Records http://www.accessgenealogy.com/census/

Databases http://www.accessgenealogy.com/genealogy_databases/

DNA http://www.accessgenealogy.com/dna/

Military Records http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/

Vital Records http://www.accessgenealogy.com/vital-records/united-states-vital-records.htm

& to obtain official copies http://www.accessgenealogy.com/vital/

A large Canada Database, also Databases from Australia (including Tasmania), Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, UK (including Scotland & Wales)

AllofEuropeGenealogy http://AllofEuropeGenealogy.com

A useful Linkage Site for: Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom

Ancestry.com – Key pay Site, FREE MPFHC - http://www.ancestry.com

'''Sister Sites – Fold3, Roots Web, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Anchives.com. Note ancestry.com/will-probate-records for US.''' Records from US and around the world over 67 countries – Census; Birth, Marriage, Death; Probate and Wills; Court, Naturalization, Land Records; Immigration; Military Records; Voters, Newspapers, Periodicals and Directories, Maps, Images, Stories etc. Family Trees. The Library edition provides easy access to more than 7,000 genealogy databases and 200 billion images with a single search. Notable collections include Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books. Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada; & key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec. U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands & Scotland, with nearly 200 million records; Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London; and more. Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from the German census, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more. Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe & Russia; and more.

Archives.gov – Digital partners, Ancestry, Family Search, Fold3. Collection of Passenger List Indexes 1820-`982; US Land Records (NARA); Passport Applications some as early as 1789, only required 1941, Access to Archival Databases – aad.archives.gov – Germany 1850-1897; Italy 1855-1900; Russia 1834-1897; Ireland 1846-1851. Also archives.gov/research/genealogy/ethnic-heritage.html. Castle Garden 1820-1891 http://www.castlegarden.org & Ellis Island from 1892 http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org

ArkivDigital Online - http://www.arkivdigital.net - Newly re-digitized, the largest private provider of Swedish Church and other Historical Records online

BillionGraves has maps, so you can find the grave when visiting the cemetery.

British Library Newspaper Digital Archives – Free at MPFHC - http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/ Fully Searchable Database of Complete Runs of 48 British Library National and Regional Newspapers 1800-1900

Cora Web http://www.coraweb.com.au/uksites.htm

Very Useful for UK and Ireland as well as Australia and New Zealand

Cyndi’s List http://www.CyndisList.com

Most of you have probably used this amazing free genealogy directory at least once, but I bet there is more left to explore. Cyndi and her team have categorized over 250,000 genealogy links into over 180 categories, with a majority of them pointing to free genealogy sites.

Death Indexes http://www.deathindexes.com/ Select a State...Alabama to Wyoming

Big City Guides: Chicago & Cook County Death Records; Cincinnati Death Records; Cleveland Death Records; Detroit Death Records; Los Angeles Death Records; New York City Death Records; and St. Louis Death Records;

Digital Public Library of America – http://dp.la This is a general-purpose library that just happens to have a lot of genealogy material in addition to other topics. It lists over 8,416,553 items from libraries, archives, and museums. A search on the word “genealogy” returns a list of 65,707 items available via the library’s online portal. Tne limitation is that the Digital Public Library of America is limited to public domain works or to works that are explicitly licensed for library access.

East European Genealogical Society - EEG http://www.eegsociety.org/Home.aspx membership supports a registered non-profit organization identifying and marshalling genealogical resources for east European research

Popular EEGS pre-WWI areas: Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bohemia, Bukovina, Galicia, Hungary, Moravia), German Empire (East Prussia, Posen, Silesia, West Prussia), Russian Empire (Bessarabia, Congress Poland, Ekaterinoslav, Grodno, Kherson, Kiev, Volhynia), and Romania

Most popular EEGS current areas: Galicia including east Galicia (Ukraine) and west Galicia (Poland) followed by Volhynia and Bukovina

Popular EEGS Current countries: Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Popular EEGS Ethnic groups: German, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovakian, Jewish, Mennonite, Romanian

Popular EEGS Religions: Roman and Greek Catholic, Lutheran, Judaic, Mennonite, Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox, Bohemian / Moravian Brethren

Epodunk – http://www.epodunk.com (US) and http://ca.epodunk.com (Canada). Map, local cemeteries, local ethnic make-up, links to vital and other records databases.

Europeana.eu - http://www.europeana-libraries.eu/web/ is an internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. Europeana Group projects include:

APE – Archives Portal Europe - http://www.archivesportaleurope.net/

ATHENA - aggregates museum content and promotes standards for museum digitisation and metadata;

Europeana 1914-1918 and Europeana Collections 1914-1918 which will make available over 425,000 items related to the First World War. Europeana Libraries will add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana from 19 of Europe's leading research and university libraries.

Europeana Local brings content from regional and local content holders.

Europeana Newspapers will add more than 18 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service.

Europeana Regia is digitising royal manuscripts from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

The European Library aggregates the content of national libraries.

'''FamilySearch – Key Free Web Site. NOTE CATALOG''' Home Base Salt Lake City

Federation East European Family History Societies FEEFHS http://www.FeeFHS.org

Shortcuts to links: Austria | Banat | Belarus | Bukovina | Carpatho-Rusyn | Croatia | Czech Republic | Estonia | Finland | Galicia | Germans / Russia | Germany | Hungary | Jewish | Latvia | Lithuania | Poland | Romania | Russia | Slovakia | Slovenia | Ukraine |

For the full list, go to our Resource directory.

Countries: | Albania | Armenia | Austria | Belarus | Bosnia | Bulgaria | Croatia | Czech Republic | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | Georgia | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Kosovo | Latvia | Lithuania | Macedonia | Moldova | Montenegro | Norway | Poland | Romania | Russia | Serbia | Slovakia | Slovenia | Sweden | Switzerland | Ukraine |

East Europeans in Other Countries

Regions: Banat | Bukovina | Carpatho-Rus' | Galicia

Ethnic or Religious Groups: Germans from Russia | Hutterites | Jewish | Mennonites

Other categories: General information | Immigration

Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com - Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc. Search by Grave Records OR Search by Cemetery

FindMyPast – http://www.FindMyPast.com – Sister Sites – BritishNewspaperArcives.co.uk; GenesReunited. Note Irish Catholic Parish Records. Also UK 1939 Register but must have been born over 100 years ago OR died before 1991. List of All Records on Site http://search.FindMyPast.com/historical-records/

Institution Version - contains UK Census and Birth, Marriages and Deaths Records. Also key Irish Records, Main UK Passenger Lists, Military Records, including WWI & II and US Census Records Note the library edition is a much shortened version of that by subscription.

'''Fold3 (formerly Footnote.com) – http://www.Fold3.com Sister Sites www.progenealogists.com; www.archives.com. To see a List of all Records on Site http://www.Fold3.com/help.''' This is a database of documents, images, and other material covering American military history, owned by Ancestry. Fold3 has significant collections covering African- American history, Native American history, the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War. and other aspects of American's history and military organizations and conflicts. Site Reflects US Military Records, Documents, Stories and Images

Forebears http://forebears.io – is a reference aid that helps researchers find historical and genealogical records naming their ancestors. While there are billions of records hosted on sites like Ancestry and FindMyPast, there are just as many on specialised sites. You can search for records by selecting a category Or detailed specific area of that category. Or if you are researching people in a certain area, resources are also listed by nation, region and town/city – enabling researchers to browse available sources that they may otherwise not find. A very useful site, since data for 226 counties and sub-countries are tabulated.

FreeSurnameSearch http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/usa.html

World Wide Directory of Free Genealogical Databases & Record Transcriptions

United States Genealogy: Nationwide Genealogy Databases - Military Databases - Passenger Lists - Native American Genealogy -

Genealogy Databases by State: Alabama - Alaska - Arizona - Arkansas - California - Colorado - Connecticut - Delaware - District of Columbia - Florida - Georgia - Hawaii - Idaho - Illinois - Indiana - Iowa - Kansas - Kentucky - Louisiana - Maine - Maryland - Massachusetts - Michigan - Minnesota - Mississippi - Missouri - Montana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Hampshire - New Jersey - New Mexico - New York - North Carolina - North Dakota - Ohio - Oklahoma - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Puerto Rico - Rhode Island - South Carolina - South Dakota - Tennessee - Texas - Utah - Vermont - Virginia - Washington - West Virginia - Wisconsin - Wyoming -

World Wide Genealogy

World Wide Genealogy Databases

UK & Ireland Genealogy at UKIsearch.com

Canadian Genealogy Records Online at GenealogySearch.org

Australia, New Zealand, & Pacific Genealogy Records

Belgium Genealogy Records

France Genealogy Records

Germany Genealogy Records

Other Countries: Africa - America - Asia - Europe

Some Examples of Sites:

Circuit Rider Database, The Immigrant Servants Database, Slave Archival Collection Databases, Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860, Slavery Petitions Database The Plymouth Colony Archive Project, Riders of the Pony Express, The Erie Railroad - Linking Chicago and Jersey City-New York

'''Geneactes - Select French département & access online databases containing free transcriptions of French civil registration records of births, marriages, deaths. Also available in English'''

Genealogical Research Library – www.grlresearch.com NOW part of the Global Research Library - www.edu.global. This site features over 50 million eResources from 25 million websites, including hundreds of databases and thousands of Subjects besides Genealogy. Here is what to expect on the new website www.edu.global

(1) Almost all of the eResources are free to download. It's like having your own personal library with thousands of books and resources at your side.

(2) All popular languages

(3) Experience a New Way of Searching with our search engine. In other words, we've already carried out millions of searches for you. We take all those results and organize them logically, and merge their indexes as well as creating new indexes allowing easier and more accurate searching. No longer do you have to search the internet for hours, or memorize locations, or create a huge list of bookmarks. No longer do you have to store or memorize which websites you prefer. Instead, it's all at your fingertips, all the time. Decide what resources you want, and a click of your mouse takes you there.

(4) We group resources into categories, such as births, marriages, deaths, wills, probate records, directories, census records, cemetery lists, local histories, and so on. You will quickly discover that this not only saves a lot of time, it also avoids research frustration.

(5) We give credit where credit is due. For example, some websites act as if they have "everything" which simply isn't true. There are thousands of websites, and honestly: each one of them is a piece of the puzzle. We don't own them, and no, they don't pay us to recommend them. Instead, we're happy to include them in our listing of resources.

(6) We also RE-INDEX topics, tags, subjects, and sub-categories, making your searches far more accurate than ever before.

Genealogienetz.de – Much data for German speaking countries and populations

The Genealogist – http://www.theGenealogist.com OR http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk – English Parish and Civil Records, Census, Directory Data and Some Military Records. Noted for its increasing number of parish records Plus an increasing number of Parish Records. NOT YET AVAILABLE MPFHC

Genealogy.com – http://www.genealogy.com – Forums and other data for 112 countries and sub-countries.

Genealogy.org – http://Genealogy.org - Some interesting Sites

1. The Polish Genealogy Project for those who are researching their Polish/Galicia ancestry. Resources - databases, directories, archives, research,etc...

2. MOLDOVA BESSARABIA GENEALOGY Search ancestors, relatives, persons of the same names.

3. UKMFH - UK Military Family History Online. Links to all major sites with online data for UK Military Family History helping you to locate more than just death records.

4. SweGGate Sweden Genealogy Gate Official SwedeGenWeb site. One stop site for facts, research guides and links to sources for Swedish Genealogy Researchers. All in English.

5. Genealogy in French-speaking Switzerland Guidelines for genealogy in French-speaking Switzerland (French and English)

6. Find Your Family at www.search-family.org?? This site has been set up to provide links to web resources that have proven to be of assistance to many genealogists.

GenealogyBank – http://www.GenealogyBank.com US Newspapers including Ethnic ones. Sister Sites – www.NewsBank.com and www.readex.com/content/world-Newspaper-Archive/ Search for names and keywords in over 92 million articles, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements and other items published in over 6,500 Newspapers 1690–Today. Explore Newspapers in Small Towns & Big Cities in All 50 States. Also over 380,000 historical books and documents from 1749-1994 include military records, widow’s claims, orphan petitions, land grants, casualty lists, funeral sermons, biographies and much more. Subscription required

GenealogyIndexer http://GenealogyIndexer.org

This is a free search engine, not unlike google, but specific for genealogy. The search engine scans a huge and ever growing database of Directories (mostly from central Europe), Holocaust Yizkor books, Polish and Russian military records, personal and community histories and some school records. It uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to index and make these records searchable. You can search in English or in Polish, Russian, Hebrew or Cyrillic (with the keyboard provided).

GenealogyInTime Magazine - http://www.genealogyintime.com/records/Europe-genealogy-records.html the fifth largest free genealogy website in the world after FamilySearch, FindAGrave, Geni, and GeneaNet has recently added further European data. They have 2 free search engines – the Genealogy Search Engine, which covers ancestral records and the Family Tree Search Engine, which covers genealogy forums and online family trees.

GenealogyLinks.net http://genealogylinks.net/

Genealogy by State http://genealogylinks.net/usa/index.html

Birth Records http://genealogylinks.net/birth_records/index.html

Cemeteries http://genealogylinks.net/cemeteries/index.html

Censuses http://www.genealogylinks.net/census/index.html

Military Rosters http://genealogylinks.net/military/index.html

Marriages http://genealogylinks.net//us/index.html

Genealogy Societies http://genealogylinks.net/genealogy_societies/index.html

Newspaper Obituaries & Death Indexes http://genealogylinks.net/obituaries/index.html

Passenger Lists http://genealogylinks.net/passenger_lists/index.html

African Americans http://www.genealogylinks.net/usa/african-american-genealogy.html

Continental Europe Links – Examples http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/poland/

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/germany/index.html

http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/france/index.html

U.K. & Ireland; Canada; Australia & New Zealand; Other Countries; Global Databases'''

Over 50,000 Genealogy Links - Browse by Region:

U.S. - Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, [http://www.genealogylinks.net/usa/index.html more... ]

U.K. and Ireland - All-UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, more...

Continental Europe - Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, more...

Canada - Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, more...

Australia - New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, more New Zealand - Auckland, Nelson & Bays, Wellington, more...

Other Countries - China, India, Israel & Jewish Genealogy, South Africa

Additional Resources - Newspaper Obituaries on the Net a directory of over 30,000 US obituary and death indexes and archives obituary and newspaper databases from one site

Genealogy-on-Facebook http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/

Katherine R. Willson’s “Genealogy on Facebook” lists more than 3,600 links to Facebook pages that may help genealogists further their research. The free download of 103 paged pdf updated on 4 Jan 2014 is at http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/. These Genealogy-on-Facebook pages list topics by country, US state and content including home children and several on DNA. Many societies and interest groups now have Facebook pages.

GeneaNet - http://www.geneanet.info (http://www.geneanet.org was the old version) family tree, archival

records, family pictures, etc Started as a small French genealogy research site, has blossomed into a worldwide genealogy network. This originally free genealogy database indexes over 85 million names on free genealogy Web sites from around the world, with the primary focus still on French ancestry. You can get a lot of information here for free, but there are advanced options that may cost

Genuki – UK (including Ireland, Scotland and Wales) – Large amounts of Data at all levels

GenWeb - World GenWeb Project: genealogy resources by country and region, not to miss

USGenWeb contains sites for each state and county in the U.S. What many people don't realize, however, is that most of these states and counties have free genealogy records including deeds, wills, census records, cemetery transcriptions etc., available online through the efforts of thousands of volunteers - but you don't have to visit each state or county site to look for your ancestor in these free records. These hundreds of thousands of online records across the United States can be searched through just one search engine!

Global Research Library – http://www.edu.global see under OLD name Genealogical Research Library

Do not forget GOOGLE - http://www.Google.com and Google.ie, Google .de etc ALSO Google Books - http://books.google.com/ — Using the BOOK search engine (vs just the REGULAR Google search) makes a very big difference! Some books are available to read in their entirety.

In-Depth Genealogist http://www.theindepthgenealogist.com/ - Enjoy!!!

Heritage Quest Online - http://www.heritagequestonline.com/ - PERSI Periodical Source Index™ genealogy and local history articles, updated annually; Freedman’s Bank (1865-1874), including name index and

images for bank depositors, their dependents and heirs; Revolutionary War-Era, Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files

Interment.net http://www.Interment.net - Free Cemetery Records Online database containing over 3 million records from over 5000 cemeteries worldwide. It contains actual cemetery transcriptions as well as links to other cemetery transcriptions available on the Internet from cemeteries around the world.

Some Cemetery Records by Region:

United States - New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Washington, more...

United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, more...

Republic of Ireland - Dublin, Meath, Clare, Roscommon, more...

Germany - Bavaria, Rheinland-Pfalz, more...

Canada - Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, more...

Australia - Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, more...

New Zealand - Northland, Otago, Southland, more...

Other Countries - Italy, Mexico, Poland, more...

Special Collections - National Cemeteries (Federal & State Veterans Cemeteries); Flooded Cemeteries (Flooded by dams); California Missions (Cemeteries California Missions)

Library of Congress USA – http://www.loc.gov Includes ChronclingAmerica

Linkpendium http://www.linkpendium.com

USA – States etc & British-Irish - How to Research, Tips, Tricks, Introduction to Archives and Record Groups, British Empire Colonial Records and History, British Isles, Channel Islands, Commonwealth Nations Records and History, England, Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales

Mocava http://www.Mocavo.com was bought out and absorbed by FindMyPast

'''MyHeritage – http://www.MyHeritage.com Home Base Israel – Very good for Central and Eastern Europe. Sister Site – www.geni.com. www.WorldVitalRecords.com now part of MyHeritage'''

Library Edition - http://MyHeritageLibraryEdition.com/research - Extensive collections of Family Trees. Note: The content of World Vital Records has been added. This collection may include the following data sets: Genealogy and local history books deliver more than 7 million digitized page images from over 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books. Titles have been digitized from their own renowned microform collections, as well from the '''American Antiquarian Society via an exclusive partnership. Periodical Source Index (PERSI) Archive (1800-2009), published by the Allen County Public Library, which contains more than 2.3 million records covering both English and French periodicals published around the world since 1800 – see also FindMyPast.''' Freedman’s Bank Records, with more than 480,000 names of bank applicants, their dependents and heirs from 1865–1874, offers valuable data that can provide important clues to tracing African American ancestors prior to and immediately after the U.S. Civil War.

Newspaper Archive http://www.newspaperarchive.com one of the world’s largest historic newspaper archives from US and around the world. It includes birth notices and obituaries

'''Newspapers – http://www.Newspapers.com. Sister Sites – Ancestry, Fold3. To Search by Place use http://www.Newspapers.com/map'''

Statoids http://www.Statoids.com - Boundary Changes within Countries

Steve Morse’s “One Step” web site http://www.stevemorse.org is a gold mine for genealogists. It provides simplified tools to access U.S. census records, Canada/UK census records, New York census, Social Security Death Index, vital records, calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, Holocaust, genetic and MUCH more.

TimeLines http://Timelines.ws - Timelines

VitalRecs.com – a most comprehensive resource for locating vital records for Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic & Slovakia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and the US and its states.

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ a very useful site for historical data

WikiTree https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/WIKITREE - MyHeritage sponsor

Some Projects - South African Roots Project WikiTree; Grosse Île, Québec Project WikiTree; New Netherland Settlers WikiTree; Acadians Project WikiTree; US Southern Colonies Project WikiTree; Czech Roots Project WikiTree; Puritan Great Migration Project WikiTree; Louisiana Families Project WikiTree; Australia Project WikiTree; Magna Carta Project WikiTree; Tennessee Project WikiTree; Texas Project WikiTree; Holocaust Project WikiTree; Virginia Project WikiTree;