GENEALOGICAL BOOKMARKS

BOOKS

Genealogy Book Shop http://www.genealogybookshop.com/genealogybookshop/index.html

Heritage Books http://heritagebooks.com

FORMS

NARA order forms Civil War – Immigration, etc. http://www.nara.gov/research/ordering/ordrfrms.html

Family Group Sheet http://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us/binary/famgrpchart.pdf

Pedigree Chart http://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us/binary/pedigreechart.pdf

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

Laurel County Kentucky http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2060/main.htm

Ohio http://www.ohiohistory.org/index.html

Westmoreland County Pennsylvania http://www.wchspa.com/intro.htm

LAND RECORDS

Bureau of Land Management – Land Patents http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

LIBRARIES

Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne) http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/

Library of Virginia http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

Library of Virginia – Digital Collections http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm

They have scanned original documents into the computers and all are searchable.

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library http://www.library.toledo.oh.us/

MAPS

Map Quest http://mapquest.com/

Topographical maps http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~dha5446/topoweb/digital.html

TopoZone http://www.topozone.com/

USGS maps, To order http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/findmaps.html

REFERENCE

Canadian Geographic Names http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/

Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com/

Over 65,000 links to sites useful for genealogy!

Heritage Quest http://www.heritagequest.com/

Source for microfilm and “digital microfilm”

Kentucky Vital Records http://ukcc.uky.edu/~vitalrec/

Passenger Lists on the Internet http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html

Political Graveyard http://politicalgraveyard.com/index.html

Rootsweb http://rootsweb.com/

Excellent site. These people host most of the genealogical mailing lists.

Soundex – Explanation http://www.heritagequest.com/genealogy/microfilm/html/miracode.html

Soundex – How to figure, http://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us/binary/soundex.pdf

SEARCH ENGINES

Family Search (Mormons) http://familysearch.org/

Family Tree Maker – Internet Family Finder http://www.familytreemaker.com/ifftop.html

GENDIS – Michigan Online Death Index http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/gendis/

1867 thru 1882 (currently)

Surname Helper http://surhelp.rootsweb.com/srchall.html

1870 Michigan Census Index http://envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us/1870_census/

Social Security Death Index

http://www.familytreemaker.com/fto_ssdisearch.html

http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/gen_ssdisearch.html

http://www.lineages.com/vault/SSDI.asp

http://www.sierra.com/sierrahome/familytree/ssdi/

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

SOFTWARE

Census on CD including index – 1850 http://www.familytreemaker.com/cenmicro.html

US GENWEB PROJECT

Michigan GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/

US GenWeb Project http://www.usgenweb.org/

Links to all states’ pages are here, as well as the US GenWeb Archives

WORLD GENWEB PROJECT

Word GenWeb http://www.worldgenweb.org/

Phyllis Rickard - 9 June 2000

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