Sponsored by the Africana Studies Department at the University of South Florida, this site's mission is to document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants.
Search the records of over 22,000,000 passengers who came through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. Other information on Ellis Island is also available.
Ancestry.com is one of the largest genealogy sites on the web. All users may browse message boards on a very wide range of topics, get tips about how to begin researching your family tree, read daily columns, and download some research tools. Some of the most helpful tools, however, are available only to premium users (i.e. those who pay a fee). These include online census information; birth, death, and marriage records; military records; and over 2,000 databases.To access those tools, please see the link immediately below.
This is Ancestry.com's paid subscription service, which has additional features. These include the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward and Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. Use Ancestry Library to gain access to areas not available with the general Ancestry.com link. **This database must be accessed from the library.
Direct links to online census records by state, then county. Besides links to all fifty states, records from Canada, the Caribbean, England, Liberia, Norway, Puerto Rico,and Russia are also available. There is also a section for Native Americans. Contains links to many other basic genealogical resources. Links do not include access to every census; it varies by state and county.
Author: Jeff Chapman Family ChronicleTM, a print journal, maintains links to genealogy features for the beginner, name lists, and Top Genealogy Websites.
This site is the work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons). It provides access to their Family Historical Library Catalog, an International Genealogical Index, and Ancestors File, and will also allow users to add or update information. Registration is necessary to use some of the site's features.
Author: Matthew L. Helm Includes the Genealogy SiteFinder (a partnership between the Toolbox and Broderbund Software) which has over 45,000 individual links in twenty-five major categories. The monthly Web publication Journal of Online Genealogy (TM) which promotes the use of computers and the Internet in family history research is also available.
This resource is available through iConn. Research resource for family history and American culture includes U.S. federal census records and the UMI Genealogy and Local History collection.
JewishGen®, Inc. is the primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide. Its most popular components are the JewishGen Discussion Group, the JewishGen Family Finder (a database of over 85,000 surnames and towns),
the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, and a variety of databases like the ShtetlSeeker.
This is an interface to the August 1998 release of the Roots Surname List, a listing of about 452,150 surnames submitted by about 63,603 genealogists. Type in a surname, hit enter or return, and a list of people researching that surname will be returned. Social Security Death Index and Roots-L mailing list also available.
The master death index contains information on over 59.7 million Americans who were issued a Social Security number and for whom a lump sum death benefit is recorded through June 30, 1998.
Direct access to individual state and territory information. Includes steps for obtaining foreign or high-seas birth, death, and certificates of citizenship. Entire document is available as a pdf file.
In June 1996, the Connecticut GenWeb homepage was created as part of the US GenWeb Project. The purpose is to provide a single entry point for all counties and towns in Connecticut, where collected data will be stored.
Contact information, hours, an event calendar, and a brief discussion of the history of Glastonbury are available through the Society's homepage. The Society also has many documents and books helpful to genealogists looking for local connections.
Author: François R. Velde A variety of information on heraldry and related topics, in the form of texts, images, and links. More than 250 articles and 430 images.
Author: U.S. Census Bureau Includes lists of the ten most common surnames, the ten most common female first names, and the ten most common male first names, as well as a search form which allows one to learn the frequency that a name appears in the 1990 U.S. census.
Author: Hamrick Software Enter a surname (last name) on the form and a map showing the distribution of people with this surname within the United States according to the 1850, the 1880, the 1920, and the 1990 censuses will display. Links to other "name" sites.
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