UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BUT THERE ARE SOME NEW SITES BELOW. 4/25/12
New Genealogy Search Engine: www.Movaco.com (read Dick Eastman's article: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/12/mocavo-plus-the-next-generation-of-genealogy-search-engine.html
FORMS:
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/freeforms
US Map Collections
http://geology.com/state-map/
CEMETERIES:
Canada: http://www.interment.net/can/qc/index.htm
New York Gravestones: http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/
1940 Census for Kansas https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/1940-census-kansas/
OLD Maps
http://www.old-maps.com/index.htm
MASSACHUSETTS:
RHODE ISLAND
8 Free Rhode Island Resources by Diane Boumenot of the blog, One Rhode Island Family. http://onerhodeislandfamily.com/2012/03/27/10-free-rhode-island-resources/
CONNECTICUT:
http://www.hale-collection.com/index.html
Connecticut Historical Society, Museum and Library
Illinois
http://www.cookcountygenealogy.com/ (Cook County Clerk's office, there is a charge for the records)
New York
Albany Mill Towns
http://www.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/
Fulton Post Cards, New York
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
New York Family History (NYG&B)
http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/
NORTHERN NEW YORK HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
http://news.nnyln.net/index.html
New York Gravestones
http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/
Ellis Island
This afternoon I had the privilege to present a "Researching Your New York Ancestors" webinar as part of the Legacy Family Tree series of webinars. As always, Geoff Rasmussen was an excellent moderator and from the feedback it looks like those who attended are excited to get on with their New York research. You can now watch the recording of the full webinar for free here. The recording will be available until June 11, 2012.
Many of the links I covered during the webinar are also in my Research Toolbox here on Destination: Austin Family. I've extracted them here so they are easy to find:
Read more: http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-york-genealogy-research.html#ixzz1wOf7kjzO
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http://history.rays-place.com/ ny/index.htm Ray's Place
http://www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/wayne-county-death-record-index
The American Civil War Homepage
Bureau of Land Managment: General Land Office Records: the offical federal land records site
Chronicling America
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
Cyndi's List
Daughters of the American Revolution
Find a Grave
GeneaBios : biographies for genealogy
Genealogy Today
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/
Internet Archive
Library of Congress
Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
LDS Family Search Data
National Archives - NARA http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/
Olive Tree Genealogy
RootsWeb
CANADA
http://simmons.b2b2c.ca/
Library and Archives Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
Quebec Family History Society http://www.qfhs.ca/cpage.php?pt=53
Some Cemetery Locations Around Missisquoi Bay http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/archives/CemeteryLocations.html
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/ Canadian free census for 1851, 1901, 1906, 1911
What Was There http://www.whatwasthere.com/
World Names Place http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/
Toggl https://www.toggl.com/ (simple time tracking) Free tool
Picnik http://www.picknic.com/ (photo application, free)
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/ (turn long website addresses into tiny urls)
OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.com/ (free open source office software)
Evernote http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/evernote-2-2-1-386-0/
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/german.htm
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/guide/German_Gothic99-36316.ASP
Canada: http://www.interment.net/can/qc/index.htm
New York Gravestones: http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/
1940 Census for Kansas https://www.familysearch.org/1940census/1940-census-kansas/
MASSACHUSETTS CEMETERIES
Middlesex County, MA Cemetery Listing
A VERY GRAVE MATTER
OLD Maps
http://www.old-maps.com/index.htm
MASSACHUSETTS:
RHODE ISLAND
8 Free Rhode Island Resources by Diane Boumenot of the blog, One Rhode Island Family. http://onerhodeislandfamily.com/2012/03/27/10-free-rhode-island-resources/
CONNECTICUT:
Connecticut History Online (A lot of images of Connecticut, including the Latimer House in Chesterfield)
Connecticut Society of Genealogists (Several maps from different periods.)
University of Connecticut (Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776)
Connecticut Society of Genealogists (Several maps from different periods.)
University of Connecticut (Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776)
http://www.hale-collection.com/index.html
Connecticut Historical Society, Museum and Library
http://freepages.genealogy. rootsweb.com/~nanc/ North Stonington
http://awt.ancestry.co.uk/cgi- bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=sebrah& id=I00703&ti=5538 A lot of CT families
Illinois
http://www.cookcountygenealogy.com/ (Cook County Clerk's office, there is a charge for the records)
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2433&enc=1 Ancestry.com site: Cook County, Illinois, Marriage and Death Indexes, 1833-1889
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1501 Ancestry.com site: Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988
New York
Albany Mill Towns
http://www.albanyhilltowns.com/mediawiki/
Fulton Post Cards, New York
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
New York Family History (NYG&B)
http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/
NORTHERN NEW YORK HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
http://news.nnyln.net/index.html
New York Gravestones
http://www.newyorkgravestones.org/
Ellis Island
This afternoon I had the privilege to present a "Researching Your New York Ancestors" webinar as part of the Legacy Family Tree series of webinars. As always, Geoff Rasmussen was an excellent moderator and from the feedback it looks like those who attended are excited to get on with their New York research. You can now watch the recording of the full webinar for free here. The recording will be available until June 11, 2012.
Many of the links I covered during the webinar are also in my Research Toolbox here on Destination: Austin Family. I've extracted them here so they are easy to find:
- Albany County Records
http://www.albanycounty.com/achor/
- Albany RDC Records
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/
- Early New Netherlands
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/
- Huguenot Historical Society
www.huguenotstreet.org
- NY Hist Soc
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/
- NY Hist Timeline
http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/NYNY.html
- NYS Archives
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
- NYS Library
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
- NYS Offline Resources
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nysource/
- Northern NY Historical Newspapers
http://news.nnyln.net
- Northern NY Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html
- Old Fulton Postcards
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
- Olive Tree Genealogy NY
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
- People of Colonial Albany
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/
- PCA Bio Index
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/bioindex.html#v
- Schenectady DHA
http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/index.html
- Schenectady Historical Society
http://www.schist.org
- Ulster County Families
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~luke/
Read more: http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-york-genealogy-research.html#ixzz1wOf7kjzO
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http://history.rays-place.com/
http://freepages.genealogy. rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/ Albany & Eastern New York
http://hometown.aol.com/ jma8763/myhomepage/business. html Genesee & other
http://news.nnyln.net/index. html Northern NY newspapers
http://www.detroitpubliclibrary.org/wayne-county-death-record-index
The American Civil War Homepage
Bureau of Land Managment: General Land Office Records: the offical federal land records site
Chronicling America
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
Cyndi's List
Daughters of the American Revolution
Find a Grave
GeneaBios : biographies for genealogy
Genealogy Today
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/
Internet Archive
Library of Congress
Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
LDS Family Search Data
National Archives - NARA http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/
Olive Tree Genealogy
RootsWeb
CANADA
http://simmons.b2b2c.ca/
Library and Archives Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-571-e.html
Quebec Family History Society http://www.qfhs.ca/cpage.php?pt=53
Some Cemetery Locations Around Missisquoi Bay http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/archives/CemeteryLocations.html
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com/ Canadian free census for 1851, 1901, 1906, 1911
FUN and APPS
What Was There http://www.whatwasthere.com/
World Names Place http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/
Toggl https://www.toggl.com/ (simple time tracking) Free tool
Picnik http://www.picknic.com/ (photo application, free)
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/ (turn long website addresses into tiny urls)
OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.com/ (free open source office software)
Evernote http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/evernote-2-2-1-386-0/
http://www.ancestry.com/ search/rectype/recent.aspx Ancestry Recent Databases
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ Main_Page Dictionary
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ obituaries/ RootsWeb Obituaries
http://www.genealinks.com/ census.htm Census Tools
http://www.biblerecords.com/ Bible Records
http://64.233.179.104/search? q=cache:sL1AG9LmZTQJ:www. threerivershms.com/Ehlebook. htm+gardinier+%22john+ehle%22& hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Ehle Three Rivers
http://lrcressy.com/family/ fam-tree/0169.html The Cressey Family
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/german.htm
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/guide/German_Gothic99-36316.ASP
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http://64.233.187.104/search? q=cache:QIGqNEutrAIJ:www. gravesfa.org/gen065.htm+% 22noadiah+grave%22+guilford& hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Deacon George Graves
http://www.bettyfink.com/ Betty Fink