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Archives

• The Library of Congress – Good resource for books and photographs; now with a new one-stop search engine
  • American Memory Collections
  • Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
• Making of America – Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction; a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Cornell University
• The National Archives – Few resources are online, but one can prepare for a visit to Archives facilities, e.g., by searching microfilm indices.
  • Genealogists/Family Historians – Lists resources available to researchers
  • What You Can Find Online – Lists the few records available online

Cemetery Record Locators

• Department of Veterans Affairs – Nationwide Gravesite Locator
• Find A Grave – Millions of Cemetery Records
• Interment.net – Cemetery Transcription Library
• Iowa WPA 1930s Graves Registration Survey – Searchable database of informtion originally collected by the Work Projects Administration

Databases

• Bureau of Land Management – Land Patent Search
• FamilySearch – Includes Census, Social Security Death Index, and others
• Internet Surname Database – Contains 50,000 surname origin researches
• Massachusetts Archives
  • Passenger Manifest Index Search (1848–1891)
  • Collection Database (1629–1799)
• Passenger Lists & Records (Professional genealogist Joe Beine)
• Social Security Death Index (SSDI) (RootsWeb.com and other websites)

Dictionaries

• travlang’s German–English Dictionary – Turn off your pop-up blocker, scroll down, and enter a single word to receive a translation and possible phrases; an entered phrase returns a translation

Handwriting

• Sabina J. Murray’s Deciphering Old Handwriting – This accredited genealogist provides tips on reading handwriting in old documents

Histories and Biographies

• Index to Politicians: Hull (The Political Graveyard)
• Sites with County or Local Histories or Biographies (Lovitt-Genealogy.com)

Land Records

• Bureau of Land Management – Land Patent Search
• Family Maps series of Land Patent Books (Arphax Publishing)
  • Also available: Texas Land Survey Maps series

Libraries

• Allen County Public Library – This county library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, houses a collection second only to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City
• Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah – Founded in 1894 to gather genealogical records and assist member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this library is the largest of its kind in the world, and is open to the public
• Mid-Continent Public Library’s Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Missouri – The largest stand-alone public genealogy research facility in the United States

Maps and Gazetteers

• Family Maps series of Land Patent Books (Arphax Publishing)
  • Also available: Texas Land Survey Maps series
• Geographical Names of Canada
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
• Mardos Memorial Library of On-Line Books & Maps
• Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire – Pre-WWII place names
  • Meyers Gazetteer (Ancestry.com)
  • How to Use the Meyers Gazetteer (FamilySearch.com)
• Oddens’ Bookmarks – Searchable database of maps, atlases, and gazetteers
• Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection – Historical maps of the U.S., at the University of Texas at Austin
• David Rumsey Map Collection
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names
  • U.S. Names – It’s an online “City County Finder”
  • Foreign Names – A gazetteer (select GNS Search under Queries)
• U.S. Census Bureau Mapping Resources
  • Mapping Engine
  • U.S. Gazetteer
• U.S. Political Boundaries – Animated Maps (Ed Stephan)
  • Formation of the Contiguous United States 1650–1907
  • Evolution of United States Counties 1650–1983 and Map

Newspapers

• Northern New York Historical Newspapers – More than 20 newspapers
• The Olden Times Historic Newspapers Online – Newspaper articles indexed by surname

Points of Interest and Key Localities

• Crewkerne, England – Birthplace of 1630s immigrants George and the Rev. Joseph Hull
  • Crewkerne, co. Somerset, England (Wikipedia)
  • Crewkerne, co. Somerset, England (Country-Breaks.com)
  • Parish Church of St Bartholomew, Crekerne
  • Somerset Archive & Record Service
• German Localities
  • Genealogy.net
    • German Genealogy: Tips for Researchers
    • GenWiki
    • Rheinland-Pfalz – Home to some Holls/Hohls
    • East & West Prussia Gazetteer (ProGenealogists.com)
• Jane Addams Hull-House, Chicago, IL
  • Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
• Warren and Polly Hull House, Lancaster, NY
  • Hull Family Home & Farmstead

Surname Services

• World Names Profiler – Search for a surname to view its geographical location and statistics about its ocurrence; also includes an area search and ethnicity search

Societies and Other Organizations

• The Genealogical Society of Utah
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness – Volunteers agree “to do a research task in their local area as an act of kindness”

Subscription Services

These services, which offer digitized versions of many of the National Archives records, often are available to researchers at no charge through public libraries. Using your library card you can often access these services from your home. These services are also available at The National Archives. When accessed through libraries these sites may not offer as many services as are offered to individual subscribers.

• Ancestry.com – Available through libraries as Ancestry Library Edition
• GenealogyBank.com
• HeritageQuest

Vital Records

• Genealogy Roots Blog – Genealogist Joe Beine’s list of online vital records, including digitized death certificates; nine states represented as of 29 Jan 2008
• Massachusetts Archives – Vital Records Search (1841–1910)

Websites of General Genealogical Interest

• Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet – Be sure to see Cyndi’s Myths, Hoaxes & Scams
• USGenWeb Project – Links to autonomous websites for all counties in the U.S., containing useful links to information