Genealogy Websites

Here are some links to websites to help in your historical research.

Documenting the Lineage for DAR – This document describes what information is needed in addition to a list of useful websites.

• • 1. Allen County Public Library
    2. American Battle Monuments
    3. Ancestry.com – This site can provide a variety of records such as birth, marriage, death, census, wills, and tombstones.
    4. Atlas of Historical Counties
    5. Chronicling America
    6. Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court
    7. Debbie’s Lineage Research 
    8. Elephind (US Newspapers)
    9. Ellis Island Foundation
    10. Familysearch.org – Birth, marriage, death records, and census records can be found on this website.
    11. Findagrave.com – This site provides many photographs of tombstones.  The information on the stones can be used as a source but the memorial information cannot as it may not be verified.
    12. Fold3 – Historical military records
    13. Genealogy Trails
    14. General Land Office Records – This site provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States.
    15. Hathi Trust Digital Library – This site contains local histories and family histories in digital format.
    16. Immigration Ships
    17. Immigration to the United State 1789-1930
    18. Interment.net
    19. Internet Archive – This site contains many online books including genealogies and vital records.
    20. Legacy.com
    21. Library of Congress – This has several newspaper you can search for free.
    22. National Archives – A list of searchable databases.
    23. Newspaper Archives
    24. OldNews.com: Historical Newspapers
    25. Online Historical Newspapers
    26. Randymajors.com – This site is useful as a way to identify what county the town was in on a specific date.
    27. Small Town Newspapers
    28. Tombstone Birth Date Calculator
    29. US Gen Web Archives
    30. 100 Top Genealogy Websites
    31. Miscellaneous NH Revolutionary Documents
    32. Podcast – Genealogy Gems 

State Websites

1. 1. Alabama Department of Archives & History
   2. Alabama Mosaic
   3. Alaska State Archives
   4. American Samoa Genealogy
   5. Arizona State Library
   6. Arizona Memory Project
   7. Arkansas Digital Archives
   8. CaliSphere – University of California 
   9. California Revealed
   10. California Digital Newspaper Collection
   11. Online Archive of California
   12. Denver Colorado Public Library
   13. Connecticut Collections.
   14. Connecticut Digital Archives
   15. Delaware Public Archives
   16. Dig DC Repository at DC Public Library
   17. Florida Memory – State Library and Archives
   18. University of Florida Digital Collections
   19. Digital Library of Georgia. 
   20. Georgia Historical Newspapers
   21. Georgia Archives
   22. Guam Genealogy
   23. Hawai’i State Archives
   24. Idaho State Historical Society
   25. Illinois Digital Archives
   26. Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
   27. Illinois State Archives Databases
   28. Indiana Archives and Records Administration
   29. Indiana State Library
   30. Iowa Digital Library
   31.  Iowa Heritage Digital Collection
   32. Kansas Historical Society
   33. Kansas Memory
   34. Kentucky Digital Library
   35. Kentucky Historical Society
   36. Louisiana Digital Library
   37. Digital Maine Repository
   38. Maine Genealogy
   39. Maine Memory Network
   40. Digital Maryland
   41. Maryland State Archives
   42. Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
   43. Early Vital Records of Massachusetts – This site is an ongoing effort to transcribe early vital record documents within Massachusetts from 1600 to 1850.
   44. Massachusetts State Library – This site provides the Massachusetts Soldier and Sailors in the American Revolution volumes.
   45. Michigan Biographical Index
   46. Michiganology
   47. Western Michigan Genealogical Society
   48. Iron Range Research Center
   49. Minnesota Digital Library
   50. Mississippi Digital Library
   51. Missouri Digital Heritage
   52. Missouri State Archives
   53. State Historical Society of Missouri Digital Collection
   54. Montana Historical Society
   55. Mountain West Digital Library
   56. Nebraska State Historical Society
   57. History Nebraska
   58. Nevada Library Cooperative
   59. New Hampshire Genealogy & History
   60. New Jersey State Archives
   61. New Mexico’s Digital Collections
   62. New York Heritage Digital Collections
   63. New York Historical Newspapers
   64. New York Public Library Digital Collection
   65. New York State Death Records
   66. NYC Historical Vital Records Project
   67. Digital NC
   68. North Carolina Digital Collections
   69. University of North Carolina: The Southern Historical Collection
   70. Digital Horizons – Life on the Northern Plains
   71. Northern Mariana Islands Genealogy
   72. Ohio Memory
   73. Digital Prairie
   74. The Gateway to Oklahoma History
   75. Oregon Secretary of State: Archival Records
   76. Oregon Digital
   77. Oregon Historical Society Digital Collections
   78. State Library of Pennsylvania Collections
   79. Power Library – Pennsylvania’s Electronic Library
   80. Puerto Rico Genealogy
   81. Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries
   82. Rhode Island State Digital Archives
   83. South Carolina Dept of Archives and History
   84. South Carolina Digital Library
   85. South Dakota State Historical Society
   86. Nashville Public Library Digital Collections
   87. Tennessee Virtual Archive
   88. The Portal to Texas History
   89. Mountain West Digital Library
   90. Utah State Archives Name Indexes
   91. Vermont History
   92. Library of Virginia
   93. Virginia Chronicle
   94. Washington Rural Heritage
   95. Washington State Archives – Digital Archives
   96. Washington State Library
   97. West Virginia Archives and History
   98. Recollection Wisconsin
   99. Wisconsin Historical Society
   100. Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection

Other Countries

1. 1. Canadian Headstones
   2. Library and Archives Canada
   3. The National Archives (UK)
   4. British Newspaper Archive
   5. National Archives of Ireland
   6. National Library of Ireland
   7. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
   8. Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
   9. Caribbean Genealogy Library
   10. Ancestors of Paradise (Caribbean)
   11. The Danish West-Indies
   12. Danish Demographic Database
   13. Digitalarkivet
   14. Genealogy Indexer
   15. Geneteka
   16. GenTeam
   17. Hungaricana
   18. JewishGen
   19. Matricula Online
   20. Portale Antenati
   21. Routes to Roots Foundation
   22. Wie Was Wie