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A Thousand
Genealogy Links Formerly known an Ian’s Homepage, has a thousand links of genealogical resources in United Kingdom, Canada US, Australia, New Zealand, International Access Genealogy http://www.accessgenealogy.com Ancestors
Attic Genealogy Links http://members.aol.com/Tuffsearch/Genealogylinks.html Nice Graphics, Tools, Tips and Forms, Naming Traditions Vitals, Census, Social Security Death Index Information, New York, Illinois, Missouri Links, Emigration/Immigration, Maps and Land Information, 1894 News Clippings, Cemeteries and Obituaries Resource Guide, National and International links, Toolkit Teachers guide, Blank Charts and Forms Ancestry Home Page http://www.ancestry.com Search Social Security Death Index, Early American Marriage Records, Persi, Ancestry World Tree (7 million names), other free databases Barrel
of Links http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html John Lacombe site has a Civil War page with 127 Links, also 331 Genealogy Links (Not categorized) Bath Family Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bathonia/BaHm.htm All you want to know about their origins. Caernarvon Caernarfonshire WalesGenWeb Site maintained by Jayne Primmer Coal Mining Ancestors History
of Welsh Mining e-mail miners@swansea.ac.uk Ancestors in the coal mining industry? Try this site for the South Wales Coalfield Collection. Crooked
Tree Index http://www.doitnow.com/~moravia/index.html Archives, Online Records and Databases, Mailing Lists, Native American Genealogy, British Records, Canada Information, Genealogy Websites Cyndi’s List http://www.CyndisList.com/database.htm One of the best sites on the Internet. Cyndi Howell has 41,600 Genealogy links categorized and cross referenced in over 1,000 Categories Digital
Resources World Good Links to Genealogy sites in Netherlands, Belgium. Some Links for Europe, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin and South America Donna Speer Ristenbatt Genealogy – On the Trail of our Ancestors http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/homepage2.htm Dutch Research, Mennonites, Palatines, Loyalists, etc Everton
Publishers Home Page US and International Links, Searchable Data Base Exis http://www.exis.net/umbrella/find.htm Family
Tree Maker Home Page FTM has searchable databases. The Family Finder Index has about 123 million names from census records, marriage records, Social Security death records, family trees and etc Family Tree Searcher http://www.familytreesearcher.com This site makes your search for family trees on the Internet easier. Once you've entered your family information, you won’t need to enter it again. You can then search multiple web sites from this web site. This free service will create the optimal searches for your ancestor data.
Federation
of East European Family History Societies Homepages
Genealogy: Advice for Effective Searches
http://www.genealogy-search-advice.com Genealogy
Exchange and Surname Registry Genealogy
Gateway Steve Lacy’s Site has 40,000 genealogical links. Surnames, Obituaries, US, Scotland, Ireland Resources, Central and East European Ethnic Records, Databases, Military Genealogy
Homepage Genealogy
Online Surname List, GenChat, 1880 Census, Homepages Genealogy’s
Most Wanted A registry with over 18,000 listings and 8,200 surnames Genealogy
Sites Around the World Civil War Links, Ship Lists, Cajun and Acadian, LDS and FHC Links, Cemetery Links and Databases Genealogical Society of Utah Has produced a unique finding aid for Wales. Its microfiche series ‘Abstracts and Indexes of Wills is an index of testators, witnesses and legatees in pre 1858 Welsh wills proved in Welsh consistory courts. Copies are held by Welsh Record Offices and Family History Societies. GeneaNet
Genealogical Data Base Network British Isles, Canada, France, Netherlands, and Sweden Links, Surname Search Gensource http://www.gensource.com Heritage
Quest Institute of Heraldic and Gen Studies ihgs@ihgs.ac.uk Immigrants Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild building an important resource Irish Roots http://www.youririshroots.com Irish Genealogy research - Irish surname history and Irish Coat of Arms, Ancestor Reports, plus information on tracing your Irish Ancestors Julies Welsh Surname List This has been incorporated into the Welsh Family History Archive website Juliana’s
Links http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/testurllinks/search.asp Juliana Szucs Smith has over 4,000 links to genealogical websites Lethbridge Family History Centre http://www.leth.net/fhc/ General Canadian Resources, Canadian military, Canadian history, genealogy resources for all provinces, Alberta history, pioneer histories, databases, how-to, research resources, people finders, US census & databases, top websites, LDS sites LDS
Family Search Website Census & Lists, Court & Legal Records, Cultural and Religious, Family Histories and Genealogies (Ancestral File, Biographies, Family Databases), Key Genealogy Sites’, Land and Properties, Libraries (Family History Library Catalogue), Migration, Military, Places, Record Keeper, Research Support, Royalty and Nobility Services & Tools, Surnames & Family Organizations, Vital Records (I.G.I. Index) Mining
Company, The Adoption, Census, Jewish, Native, Irish Resources, Chat Rooms Olive
Tree http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/index.html http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/rslsearch.html
Ontario, Palatines, 17th Century New York Register, Military Information and Militia Rolls, New Netherland, Loyalist in Ontario, Mennonites, Huguenots and Walloons, Mohawk Nation, New York, New Jersey, Ships Lists, Ireland and Canada information Photographs by Rosemary Griffiths http://www.genealogyphotographs.com Have a picture of the Welsh church where your relations were married or laid to rest. A novel idea and a site well worth a visit. How to Start, Reference Information, Historical Information Regional, Ethnic and Religious Groups, Adoption, Immigration Surnames, Land Records Obituaries Roots
Genealogical Data Cooperative 500,000 Surname List, US State Links, Mailing Lists, Roots L, Immigrant Ship Transcribers Gild Searchable
Genealogy Links Lauren Knoblauch’s links to African American, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, Asia, Hispanic, USA and Jewish searchable websites Seamen & Master Mariners Tracing British seamen and master mariners This site by Bob Sanders is an excellent resource with specific information on master mariners of Cardiff Seeker, The http://www.the-seeker.com/gene.htm Adoption, Military, Native American Links, Genealogy Links Society
of Genealogists Surname Web http://www.surnameweb.org Titanic List http://vsia.edu/vnp/titanic/p2.htm UK
& Ireland Genealogical Information Service (GENUKI) Homepage http://www.genuki.org.uk/ England,
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man http://www.genuki.org.uk/big (Information related to all the British Isles) England http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/ Ireland http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl Scotland http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/index.html Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Channel Islands http://users.itl.net/~glen/genukici.html Isle of Man http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/lom.html
UK Surnames Web site – a free facility for exchanging family history data. UK Society of Genealogists http://www.soc.org.uk/online US Census http://www.census.gov US Surname Distribution http://www.hamrick.com/names/ Data from 50 States, 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1990 Phone Book US
GenWeb Project Welsh Genealogy http://www.nwi.co.uk/famhist/fhinfo.htm So you’ve decided to trace your Welsh ancestry? The genealogy section of the North Wales Internet web site can help you in your quest by providing valuable information and reference pointers for people interested in tracing their Welsh roots. Good site for beginners. Welsh Surname List Julie's Welsh Surnames List This has been transferred to the Welsh Family History Archive website. Home page is http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/index.htm WorldGen Web http://www.worldgenweb.org World GenWeb Project http://www.worldgenweb.org/ World Roots http://www.worldroots.com |
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Only Welsh Societies are listed here The Federation of Family History Societies http://www.ffhs.org.uk has links to Societies World-wide and is up-dated on a regular basis. It is recommended that you check their site for the latest information. For general queries about genealogy, or the Federation, email info@ffhs.org.uk covers
the pre 1974 county of Flintshire, most of Denbighshire and parts of
Merionethshire. email
the Society: chairman@clwydfhs.org.uk covers
the pre 1974 counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. email
the Society: John.H.James@nationwideisp.net email its membership Secretary/email contact: A9JEH@compuserve.com (John Hughes) covers
the pre 1974 county of Glamorgan with some small border adjustments. email
the Society: glamfhseditor@lineone.net covers
the pre 1974 county of Monmouthshire, with a small part of old Breconshire
and with a few other small border adjustments. email
the Society: secretary@gwentfhs.org.uk email its Contact point: gwent.fhs@cableol.co.uk covers
the pre 1974 counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, parts of Denbighshire
and most of Merionethshire. email
the Society: Gwynedd.Roots@tesco.net email its Contact point: Gwynedd.Roots@tesco.net covers the historical county of Montgomeryshire and its borders. The
Society has a shared interest in the London Branch. email
the Society: montgensoc@freeuk.com Powys
FHS covers the pre 1974 counties of Montgomeryshire,
Radnorshire and Breconshire. email
the Society:
verabrown1@btopenworld.com email
its Contact points: The
Morgan Society (England & Wales) email
the Society: morgan.society@virgin.net |
On-line
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List Magazines, Journals & Columns — Online Editions http://www.CyndisList.com/magazine.htm Treasure Maps — Free E-Mail Newsletter http://www.firstct.com/fv/tmaps.html Global Gazette — Canada’s Genealogy & Heritage Online Magazine http://globalgenealogy.com/gazette.htm
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Genealogy - Miscellaneous
Free HTML Pedigree Charts and
Family Group Sheet http://www.ida.net/users/elaine/pedigre2.HTM Ged2html — A Gedcom to html Translator http://www.gendex.com/ged2html/3.0/Welcome.html Use this software to put your Gedcom onto your website. Cyndi’s List construction page also lists other translators GedClean http://www.raynorshyn.com/gedclean/ Gedclean was designed to work with Ged2html (a program that will convert Gedcoms to HTML). It is a utility used to “clean” information about living individuals out of a Gedcom file in order to maintain privacy Genealogy Research site http://www.concentric.net/-Lkessler/gplinks.shtml Unclassified Sites http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirinfo.html#Search
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/gendis/index.htm
http://www.ohiohistory.org/dindex/search.cfm
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
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Database and Surname ListsAncestry Search http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search.asp Social Security Death Index, Early American Marriage Records, Persi — Periodical Source Index (Index to every genealogical article published), has 500 books that have been scanned. This should be searched for every pre 1900 ancestor. (Also includes Ancestry’s World Family Tree.) Monthly charge ($6.95 month or $59.40 per year) Ancestry’s World Family Tree http://www.ancestry.com/worldtree/tree.htm Database of 8 million names — you can submit your own Gedcom British Columbia Archive and Record Service http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/index.htm Marriage Registration Index 1872-1921 and Death Registration Index 1872-1976 Canadian Expeditionary Force http://www.archives.ca/db/cef/index.html index to personnel files of over 600,000 soldiers who enlisted during WW I Cyndi’s
List http://www.CyndisList.com/database.htm Databases, Search Sites, Surname Lists, Military, Family and People Records, Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes, Vital Records, Roots and Roots Web Cyndi’s
List http://cyndislist.com/wales.htm Dyfed Family History Society http://www.westwales.co.uk/dfhs/dfhs.htm
The Danish Demographic Database Census database does now covers the period 1787-1911, and the emigration database covers the period 1868-1900 Everton Publishers US Links, International Links, Searchable Data Base Links — Can submit your own Gedcom Everton’s
Online Search – GEDSRCH http://www.everton.com/info.htm Several
databases available estimated at 5 million names Family
Origins Genealogy Registry (Parson’s Technology, Inc) http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/registry-search.html Homepages created using Family Origins (Family Origins will create a Web page for you and store it on their server) Family
Tree Maker (Broderbund, Inc.) Family Tree Maker Home Page http://www.familytreemaker.com Internet Family Finder, Social Security Death Index, Family Finder Index, Civil War Ancestry, Resource Library, Who/Where Searches for E-mail /Phone addresses Genealogy Site Finder (Helm’s Genealogy Toolbox) http://www.familytreemaker.com/links/index.html Over 57,000 links to genealogy Web sites Internet Family Finder http://www.familytreemaker.com/iffrintro.html The most comprehensive genealogical index on the web. Indexes Web sites, searches Genealogy Library, User Pages, Message Board, Classified, Civil War Data Bases, FTM CD’s (130), World family Tree. You should use this database of every pre 1900 ancestor. Has 60,000 families with 100 million names on over 100,000 websites. You can add your information to this site Internet Family Finder Agents Allows you to register a name. They will email you when more names like the one you have registered have been added. You are limited to 10 names. They will not go through other websites Family
Finder Index http://www.familytreemaker.com/ffitop.htm This is a commercial site. Indexes FTM CD-Rom data, 171 million names — census, marriage records, Social Security Death Index Family Tree, 20% of people who arrived in US are listed Gendex Individuals: 9,506,894 Surnames: 317,162 Databases: 2,862 gives name, birth date, locality, and name of submitter Genealogy
Library Search http://www.genealogylibrary.com/ Includes over 600 books and databases online, monthly fee $5.99 or $39.99 per year. Promises to add three new databases a day GeneaNet-Genealogical Database Network A database indexing surnames dating before 1850. GeneaNet is free Genealogy Online GEDCOMS http://genealogy.org/~ajmorris/geddex/geddex.htm Database has about 1 to 2 million names. Must download GEDCOM file to see family relationships. Has 556,815 Names — 5 10 files GenServ Surname Home Page (by Cliff Manis) Over 14 million names of individuals in 10,390 Gedcom’s databases. Must submit Gedcom to have access to database. They will search their database for possible matches. To send Gedcom to GenServ — create Gedcom, then go to attachments on tool bar and send as attachment on email General
Register Office for Scotland Online pay-per-view database of indexes from the genealogical records of the GRO(s). Cost is £6 for 24 hours. Births/baptism & Banns/Marriages from old Parish Registers dating from 1553-1854 plus indexes to births, deaths, and marriages from 1855-1897. 1891 census index also online. I Found It (by Gen Source) Search for genealogical sites on Internet, locate surnames, name studies, ship passenger lists, genealogical societies and associations, researchers, software, books, family mailing lists, online records of churches, census data and cemeteries. Intended to be like Internet Family Finder but much smaller Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Archive 1815-1880 gopher://gopher.uic.edu/11/library/libdb/landsale 545,000 public domain land sales. Can search by name, date, sale type, acres, price and County Kentucky Vital Records Index http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/ Kentucky death index for 1911-1992, Kentucky Marriage Index for 1973-1993, Kentucky
Divorce Index for 1973-1993 Kindred
Konnections Database (by Kindred Konnections) http://www.kindredkonnections.com/cgi-bin/surname?-1+0+0+English 70 million names in genealogical archives, Social Security Death Index, Census indexes. 19 million surnames. If you send in a Gedcom you can search the Library free for one month. Online Genealogical Database Index http://www.gentree.com/gentree.html The Online Genealogical Database Index contains links to all known genealogical databases searchable through the Web. It is limited to searchable databases and does NOT include links to sites devoted to a family unless a database is available for searching Ontario
1871 Census Index Roots
Web Roots Surname List (by Karen Isaacson and others) http://rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi A data base with more than 486,000 surnames, tells who else is searching the same names. All email addresses are current. This data base should be used for every pre- 1900 North American ancestry. RootsWeb
Surname Mailing List http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist Divided into regions then alphabetically RootsWeb
Search Engines http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/ Databases for Arkansas, California, Louisiana, South Carolina South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin US Gen Web Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ Ultimate
Family Tree Club (by Palladium Interactive) Palladium’s
Family Tracer http://www.uftree.com/UFT/Nav/familytracergedcom.html Database has over one million family names — you can search data base free but to download a Gedcom file the cost is $4.00 Ultimate Family Tree Web Pages http://www.uftree.com/UFT/Nav/familywebpagesview.html Social Security Death Index and Web pages search separate, Relationship Lineages US Surname Distribution Data from 50 States, 1850 Census, 1880 Census 1990 Phone Book Surname Spring Board http://www.geocities.com/~alacy/spring.htm Database has over 8,000 surnames. If you have a website with your family tree data on-line in HTML format then submit your page US Census Bureau Given Name Database http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames.html Names and surnames from 1990 census — last name file 88,799 names Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index Searchable obituary index Welsh Ancestor List http://home.clara.net/wfha/wales/alpha.htm This is a huge list. It can be downloaded but file is 800kb. Updated regularly. Welsh Family History Archive Home page is http://home.clara.net.wfhs/wales/index.htm |