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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.