Here are some of the best free resources and websites to add to your Genealogy Favorites list. New links as of
9 Feb 2019 have an asterisk.
- *Access Genealogy: An enormous directory of links to online genealogy resources.
- *Antenati: Italian birth, marriage, and death records organized by province, town, and year.
- *Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (U.S.): Your ancestor's records may be hiding in the next county. Use this tool to find out.
- *Castle Garden: People didn't arrive at Ellis Island only.
- Chronicling America: Access to select digitized newspapers from 1789–1924.
- Cyndi's List: The mother of all genealogy resources.
- Ellis Island: Search ship manifests throughout the history of Ellis Island.
- Family Search: Manage your tree, view digitized files, and order microfilm records to view.
- Family Tree Analyzer: Free software gives you tremendous insight into your tree. Currently up to version 5.3.1.5.
- Family Tree Magazine: Genealogy forms, blogs, articles, and more.
- *Federal Census Forms: These blank forms from the U.S. National Archives make it easier for you to understand the information captured on each Federal census.
- French Genealogical Words: Use these lists to help you understand records written in French.
- Fulton History: Search more than 37 million historical newspapers.
- German Genealogical Words: Use these lists to help you understand records written in German.
- Google Genealogy Book Search: Access to free genealogy books.
- Italian Genealogical Group: Excellent source of New York City vital records, and much more.
- Italian Genealogical Words: Use these lists to help you understand records written in Italian.
- Italian occupations and their English translation: 875 job names. A few have question marks because I can't find a translation.
- Latin Genealogical Words: Use these lists to help you understand records written in Latin. This is common in church records.
- Legacy Family Tree Webinars: Free webinars complete with handouts and other resources.
- National Archives of Ireland: Search the 1901 and 1911 census and browse other collections.
- Research Guides: Free from Ancestry.com covering many topics.
- *RootsWeb: This site seemed doomed, but it's back. Owned by Ancestry.com, this is a free resource for family trees, message boards, Ancestry's wiki, and more.
- *State Census Forms: These blank census forms can help you better understand what information was captured on the state-level censuses. Note: These forms were posted on a website that no longer exists (free-genealogy-forms.com). They are available only through the Internet Archive WayBack Machine. I've downloaded and bundled them together in a zip file.
- State Death Indexes: Searchable death indexes and records by state.
- Stephen P. Morse: Tools to help you find your family in censuses and vital records.
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DeleteGot any Greek info?
ReplyDeleteHere are 3:
Deletehttps://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Greece_Genealogy
http://www.genealogylinks.net/europe/greece/index.html
http://www.daddezio.com/grekgen.html
or Turkish?
ReplyDeleteAccording to genealogy expert Dick Eastman:
Deletehttps://www.turkiye.gov.tr/nvi-alt-ust-soy-bilgisi-sorgulama
However, as to date only Turkish citizens can search the database, a citizenship number is required.
By any chance do you have any Czech resources?
ReplyDeleteI haven't done any Czech research, but this is your best starting point: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Czech_Republic_Genealogy
DeleteIt has been quite some time that I have come here, now got a lot of work to do, thank you so much, what an eye opener!! thank you!!
ReplyDeleteTo Mary Grether: I accidentally clicked in the wrong place and deleted your second comment instead of publishing it! You said, "so when we do all this, what do we do with our paper files? or do we just add to those files, yeah bit confused, or do we add everything to our online files and paper files as a back up."
DeletePersonally, I keep nearly zero paper files, but I know that so many people have their files and folders and binders and filing systems. If you like to keep paper files, you should keep doing so. I can't stand using up paper and toner when my digital files are always available to me. Even when I'm travelling and take along a laptop, I have full access to all my digital files because they're backed up to the cloud.