$$ sites

http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com Available only at this library

http://www.heritagequestonline.com Available at any MI library and at home from mel.org

Free sites

General

http://usgenweb.org/ Many projects to choose from. Done by volunteers

http://www.worldgenweb.org/ Similar to above, but worldwide sites

http://www.rootsweb.com SSDI, mailing lists, message boards, family trees

http://genforum.com Message boards

http://familysearch.org Use for clues

http://cyndislist.com/ Potpourri of links to genealogy sites – some for $$

http://www.deathindexes.com/ Links to info on Death Records for each state

Images of Original Records

http://search.labs.familysearch.org Images of birth, death and marriage records – limited areas

http://seekingmichigan.org

MI death records ++

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/ Images of Michigan county history books - searchable

http://www.hal.state.mi.us/1870Census/ Index to and images of the 1870 MI census

http://castlegarden.org/ Search passenger lists for Castle Garden (1855-1890) 1830-1913

http://ellisisland.org/ Search passenger lists for Ellis Island (1892-1954) 1892-1924

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Search land patents by name or description

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ Missouri Death Records (images)

http://www.deathindexes.com/illinois/index.html Illinois Death Records

http://www.deathindexes.com/texas/ Texas Death Records

http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx West Virginia Death Records (images)

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/home.html Historic American Newspapers (searchable)

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ Library of Virginia – searchable digital collection

http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Search books – books sometimes online

http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx West Virginia Birth, Death & Marriage Records

Patents

http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en Google Patent Search – images included

http://www.pat2pdf.org/ Search Patents by Patent number – images included

Military

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/census/1840/ 1840 Census of Pensioners (Rev. War)

http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/ Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System

http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ Valley of the Shadow – Two communities in the Civil War

http://ngpublications.com/index.htm Grand Army of the Republic Death Records (GAR) – limited states (Civil War)

http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com $$ - World War I & II Draft Registrations - $$

http://www.geocities.com/us_warbrides/AmWarBrides/membership.html WWII War Brides

http://thewall-usa.com/ Search the names on “The Wall” (Viet Nam)

http://go.footnote.com/ To search names and see images of the names on “The Wall”

Indexes

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/SWMIObitIndex/SWMIObit.htm SW Michigan Obituaries

http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/gendisx/search.htm MI Genealogical Death Indexing System

http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/death// Ohio Death Record Index

http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/ Obituary Index at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library – An index to over 1,300,000 obituaries, death & marriage notices & other sources from Ohio from the 1810s to the present day.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/obituaries/ Obits from the NY Times

Forms

http://www.archives.gov/forms/ Forms for National Archive requests

http://www.ancestrylibrary.com/charts/ancchart.aspx Pedigree, Family Group Sheets, US & Canadian Census forms, etc.

Search Engines

http://www.google.com/ Use for locating historical societies, colleges, newspapers, state death records, etc.

http://stevemorse.org/ “One-step” search engines to passenger lists, etc.

Local

http://www.freewebs.com/crazycemeteryladiesoflenaweeco/index.htm Fairfield Twp. Cemeteries

Lenawee County Library Resources

The books pertaining to Lenawee County history are located in State & Local History. For a complete listing of other items available for use here, look in the holdings book located on a table in State & Local History. It lists the CDs and microfilm that can be used here in the library. The list includes several newspapers, cemetery books, Hinshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, the federal census for Lenawee County 1820-1930, the mortality schedules for the State of Michigan, and the 1894 State Census for Lenawee County.