view a month or year calendar for any year 1 to 10000 A.D. All leap years and calendar changes are accounted for. Users can choose between two transition dates from Julian to Gregorian, October of 1582 or September of 1752.
a transcription from microfilm of the 1850 Utah Census. This was done as Eagle Scout project.
a collection of British Census Records containing about 1.5 million names transcribed from original census records, only from Devon, Norfolk, and Warwick Counties. Some or all of the following information will be found in the transcriptions: name of the head of house, each person in the household, age, sex, relationship to head of house, marital status, census place, occupation, county and parish of birth, and source references to the original census record.
a complete transcription of the original 1880 U.S. census for 38 states and nine territories, including Dakota (North Dakota and South Dakota), Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Washington Territories, and the Indian Territory, which comprised present-day Oklahoma. Alaska and Hawaii are not included.
The 1880 U. S. census enumerates individuals within households and institutions for the areas mentioned above, except the Indian Territory, which was enumerated separately and is not included as part of this index because it no longer exists.
Enumerators were to complete the census by 1 June 1880, but few enumerators completed their work on time, thus July or August dates are common. The completion dates are not included in the index. Refer to the original census record for completion dates.
The transcription of the 1880 U.S. census was done by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, checked and corrected by workers in the Family and Church History Department, assisted by the Historical Census Project at the University of Minnesota.
The information was reproduced as it was recorded by the census taker. Obvious errors were kept to let researchers evaluate the information themselves. Errors which caused difficulties in producing the index on compact discs (CDs) have been noted in the appropriate help sections.
Because of space limitations information from the original census record, such as household address, sections on education, health, and other topics, were not included in the index. Consult the original census record.
The 1880 U.S. census lists neighbors. The order in the index depends on the order in which the census taker recorded them. Always consult the original record for complete information.
an alphabetical list of names found in the 1880 U.S. census containing selected information, such as given names(s), last names, and other important reference information, without detailed records of individuals or households found in the full census index. After finding a name in the National Index, refer to the more detailed information found in the full census index.
a transcription of the original 1881 British Census records enumerated in April 1881, indexed by county, covering counties in England, Wales, and Scotland; separate indexes cover the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and the Royal Navy and miscellaneous. The 1881 British Census Index does NOT include Ireland.
The Royal Navy includes census counts of all people living, working, or traveling on a boat or ship at the time the census was taken. The Miscellany Region includes census counts of people who lived in poor houses, mental institutions, work houses, schools, hospitals, and other nontraditional residences when the census was counted.
The 1881 British census was transcribed and indexed by a cooperative effort of the Federation of Family History Societies; British Genealogical Record Users Committee; Her Majesty's Stationery Office; The Public Record Office, London; The General Register Office, Scotland; and the Genealogical Society of Utah.
The transcription reproduces the information originally recorded by the census taker, preserving obvious errors so that researchers can evaluate them for themselves. Errors creating problems in the index on compact discs (CDs) have been noted in the help section.
Information has been modified to conserve space. Special marks above or below letters have not been transcribed. Some information from the census record was not included in this index.
The information found on the Scottish census index is essentially the same as the information found on the English census indexes.
The CD index contains approximately 30 million names from eight regions.
contains records from England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Royal Navy, it excludes Ireland. Regional indexes were combined to form The National Index, an alphabetical listing of names found in the 1881 British Census of selected information, such as the names of individuals, and reference information for locating individuals in the full census index.
The National Index helps locate an entry in the regional census indexes for a more detailed record about an individual, especially helpful if you're not sure exactly where a person was born or where they lived when the 1881 British census was taken.
Wildcards, Exact Spelling Searches, Exact Phrase Searches, and most Boolean search terms will not work in the National Index; only the "or" operator works.
database in the Family History Resource Files searchable by name and surname.
un-indexed census images from the 1901 Canadian Census.
The British Columbia Genealogical Society's 1901 Census Index.
partial index to the 1901 Census of Canada required for accessing the census images online.
searchable website requiring a fee for detailed census information.
1911 Census for Dublin Ireland published by the National Archives of Ireland and partners. Contemporary Dublin historical images and information. Other census years will appear.
definitions of common abbreviations used in family history research.
part of the About.com network of "guided" Web directories, offers a wide range of family history topics with a how-to focus. Each category contains links to articles or databases, "genealogy 101" lessons, genealogy clip art, heritage scrap-booking, and preservation techniques.
Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory, a professional, worldwide humanities and social sciences mega portal, connected to sub-sets, with billions family history and genealogy records, also access to Genealogy and Family History online Handbook, How-To-Guide and Manual. It links to most key worldwide genealogy sites.
films of historical newspapers, documents, miscellaneous archival documents, and manuscripts, cataloged in Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal and Cutter call numbers housed in the microfilm cabinets along the North West wall of the department. BYU acquires microfilm from the National Archives, Washington, D.C. many are in the RG (Record Group) Collection, located the north end of the Academic Microfilm cabinets. Call numbers are assigned by the National Archives. For example, RG 29T 655 #21-25 refers to census records for Louisiana; RG 21 M 1401 #1-38 to the Utah Territorial Case files of U.S. District Court of Utah 1870-1896. The RG film list is in Academic Microfilm Collection Register, a blue binder at the BYUFHL Reference Desk, behind the fourth tab. More about the National Archive genealogical information is in the reference Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives,CS 68.N37x 1985 or CS 68.U54 1982.
a person from Acadia, or a descendant of French settlers who came from Acadia in Canada, present-day New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. In 1755 during the French and Indian Wars, the British tried to force the Acadians to swear an oath of allegiance to the British king. They refused and many were forced to move south. After many hardships, some returned to northern New Brunswick and to coastal areas of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. About 4,000 went to the French colony in Louisiana where their descendants became known as the Cajuns.
links to numerous genealogy resources on the internet, including Native American collections.
online research guide published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to African American sources from 1870 to the present.
research guide published by Ancestry.com for African American sources.
site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general. It is also an African Ancestry research community featuring the AfriGeneas mail list, the AfriGeneas message boards and daily and weekly genealogy chats.
catalog of the world's second-largest genealogy library, after the Family History Library in Salt Lake City . The home of PERSI, the Periodical Source Index to genealogy journals, searched via Heritage Quest.
popular search engine for accessing the Internet.
Short Histories of Alma Johnson & Margaret Estella Henrie Their parents and Children, Wilfred Peters, compiler, 2007 Extractions from numerous published and unpublished works and documents meant to inspire family members with the stories of their ancestors.
popular search engine for accessing the Internet.
Locate grave sites for deceased relatives who died in war. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established by Congress in 1923 to commemorate the service, sacrifice and achievements of U.S. Armed Forces where they have served overseas since 1917, and within the U.S. when directed by public law. Locate burials for American war dead in 24 overseas military cemeteries that serve as resting places for almost 125,000 American War Dead; on Tablets of the Missing that memorialize more than 94,000 U.S. servicemen and women; and through 25 memorials, monuments and markers. Select the appropriate database to search listed on the left panel.
Research about Civil War individuals, regiments, and battles. Indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers, thousands of battles,15,000 photographs, regimental rosters, and officer profiles, updated semiannually.
digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals from 1741 to 1900, over 1,100 periodicals from colonial times to the advent of US entry into World War II. Titles range from America 's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
Amos Howe: pioneer foundaryman / by Margaret M. Cannon
genealogical data submitted by patrons.
genealogy search engines for the largest genealogy record collections online.
The companion web site to the PBS family history and genealogy television series.
alphabetical list of all databases on Ancestry.com.
list of research guides on Ancestry.com.
list of topical and geographic message boards on Ancestry.com.
Focused on Ancestry.com and familysearch.org by an Ancestry employee – not an “official” corporate blog.
a worldwide computer database of deceased created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of millions of names, organized into family groups and pedigrees with vital information such as date and place of birth, marriage, or death. It lists name and address of contributors to the file. The Ancestral File combines pedigrees and family information into a single representative view so that all submissions for an individual are merged into a single entry. Many merge errors corrupted this database so it has been frozen since January 2000.
The Pedigree Resource File contains unmerged pedigrees submitted via FamilySearch.org, recorded separately just as received.
The Family History Department is developing a unified system to combine the best features of the Ancestral File and the Pedigree Resource File. Patrons may continue to submit information to Pedigree Resource File, only via FamilySearch.org.
a genealogical program, similar to PAF, for managing genealogical data.
an online collection of databases for genealogical research. Subscribed researchers may access hundreds of millions of searchable records, US Census (1790 - 1930), vital records, family histories, maps and much more. Researchers may search by record type, or locality, or view scanned images of original historical documents. Ancestry is free in Family History Centers. Ancestry is part of MyFamily.com, which also owns RootsWeb.com and Genealogy.com.
A collection of genealogical reference publications by Ancestry Incorporated: The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, revised edition, Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, & Town Sources, The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library, The Library: the Library of Congress: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research, The Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives, The Archives: A Guide to National Archives Field Branches, U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources, Colonial American to the Present.
a genealogical program, similar to PAF, for managing genealogical data.
AniMap Plus - A map program showing yearly county boundary changes over time for the 48 adjacent United States from colonial times to the present. State maps and full U.S. maps show changes in state and territorial boundaries from 1776 to the present.
SiteFinder -- a Database of nearly 800,000 U.S. cities, towns and other places of historical interest, that places a marker on a map for a given location, city or town.
How to use SiteFinder with AniMap:
Note: Select Options - Markers to control shape and color of markers.
Publications about the Mormon Battalion participants, history,and equipment. Map flyover using GoogleMaps.
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for locating historical documents, personal papers, and family histories in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed to ArchiveGrid. Researchers can locate documents, contact archives for visits, and order copies.
association promoting high standards among professional genealogists, providing a directory of professionals and tips on hiring one.
Association of Scottish Genealogists and Researchers in Archives. The formal organisation for professional genealogists in Scotland. Has a strict code of practice and a list of register genealogists who will undertake a search on your behalf.
The Registry is a division of the Department for Victorian Communities (DVC). The Registry has a variety of online products and services. Government site for searching, and for ordering vital records certificates for relatives or for self. There is a charge for viewing search results and for ordering certificates for relatives from Victorian Communities in Australia. Links to other government and Australian genealogical sites.
an index to, not the images of, 4.8 million birth, christening, marriage, and death records covering the states of New South Wales (1788-1888), Tasmania (1803-1899), Victoria (1837-1888), and Western Australia (1841-1905), not including the states of Queensland, South Australia, or the Northern Territory. Entries list names of individuals, event registry year and place, and index references for ordering certificates from the state civil registration office. References may provide names of parents or spouses, event dates and places, ages when events occurred, and other information.
online lessons for learning the fundamentals of family history research.
: Bibliography on German-Jewish Family Research and on Recent Regional and Local History of the Jews. Dedicated to keeping alive the memories of those peoplewhom the Nazis murdered in gas chambers and destroyed in burning furnaces and to all those who lost their families because of these crimes.
search for information about living and deceased people using indexes, reference sources, and retrospective works, worldwide and across disciplines.
internationally recognized, independent certifying body, not a membership society, dedicated to fostering public confidence in genealogy as a respected branch of history by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners, and by publicly recognizing persons who meet that standard.
Immigrants arriving in Boston by ship January of 1848 to July of 1891, when federal record-keeping began, arranged chronologically by arrival date. The Archives has original manifests, and the only microfilm copy, under the call number HS3.02/1990X, Registers of passengers arriving in Massachusetts ports, listed in Massachusetts Archives finding aid.
An alphabetical card index records the name, age, sex, birth country, last residence, passenger list number, name of the ship, and the arrival date in Boston for more than a million immigrants passing through the Port of Boston. Volunteers enter the information. The latest update was early November 2005.
Patrons may request a card index search. Names in process are not available.
since 1996, over 1500 volunteers will look up genealogical information from a list of resources, without charge except for postage or copy charges, and e-mail or conventional mail information to a requestor.
Surname index to wills and pedigrees compiled by Refd Frederick Brown, 16th-18th century in PDF.
British – Transcripts of two complete volumes of burials including a few christenings and marriages, index, high definition scans of original books, in PDF.
Three publications on the Somerset Hearth Taxes during the late 1600’s in PDF.
Locate surname and given name on maps in Britain and Wales by frequency. Print line maps with colored areas indicating where names appear with greatest frequency.
order copies of Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates from a commercial site in Britain by a team of expert researchers specialising in acquiring replacement birth certificates, replacement marriage certificates, and replacement death certificates obtained from Government sources for England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
specialists in British and Irish genealogy and indexes to the probate record holdings of The Borthwick Institute for Archives, including wills, inventories and associated records from 1320s to 1858. The Borthwick Institute for Archives takes its name from William Borthwick of Bridlington, under whose will it was endowed. The Borthwick Institute's archive of probate records (wills, inventories and associated records) is the largest in England outside London. Over 35,000 records are now available and British Origins subscribers may order copies of the original records online.
English ancestor records, maps of England and Wales, featuring England and Wales Gazetteer maps, Boyd's marriage records, burial records, court depositions, 1871 Census, apprenticeship records, wills, 1841 England and Wales Census - accessible via a British and English name search and UK place search.
Twenty-six PDF images scanned from funeral register, apparently from Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1928-1935, giving name, death date and place, burial date and place, cause of death, parents names, physician and details of funeral arrangements. Only 26 individuals were recorded.
Historical and genealogical guide to the major British, Irish and American families including more than 1 million names in over 15,000 records of British, Irish and American royalty, the peerage, presidential and other important families.
family history resources available online and at the BYU -- Idaho campus.
source: The California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research vital Statistics Section. There are 9,366,786 records that include 498,701 surnames. This data contains records from 1940 thru 1997.
a journal of the sea voyage to North America and the campaign conducted there 15 May 1776 to 5 October 1779, a true account of experiences as set forth by Friedrich Julius von Papet, Jr., 1 st Lieutenant Major General von Rhetz' Regiment, and since 20 November 1777 Brigade Major with the German troops in Canada.
Library and Archives Canada, an institution combining the collections and services of the former National Library of Canada and National Archives of Canada. It provides all access to the texts, photographs and other documents that reflect cultural, social and political development and many genealogical resources.
educational Internet resources by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation: archaeology, ethnology, history, including military history and postal history, and folk culture, emphasizing multicultural backgrounds of Canadians, plus general resources.
Maps of Carte de Cassini
Cousins GenWeb Site for France. To find the Cassini maps online, select a commune from the list, then click the Carte Cassini link to view and navigate the map images. The Cassini are the most complete historic maps of France and are useful for finding historic geographical locations
This table explains indexing for census records from the recognized sources, Internet, books, and film, whether every-name or head of household, and whether complete or not.
links to census records by state, describing population and economy for U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960.
Full-text instructions given to census enumerators from 1850 to 2000. Describes what each field of the census form should contain and how to complete the forms.
extraction forms for the 1790-1930 US Census, and 1891 British Census, show format and column headings, providing a clean and convenient method for recording data.
Online Index of the 1901, 1906 and 1911 Census of Canada, free.
original, online Census images for US, Canada , British Isles -- England , Ireland , Scotland , and Wales -- through Ancestry. Com and Genealogy.com.
an official population count and demographic description for a given country, colony, state, county, township, or city. United States censuses are listed by state, territory, county, district, city, and/or township. Canadian national censuses are divided into provinces, districts, sub-districts which are sometimes divided into two or more divisions.
a map-based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East displaying an evolving, dynamic map illustrating the rise and fall of some of the world's greatest empires, kingdoms, and nation-states, putting history in perspective as borders sweep back and forth across ancestral lands. It is tailored to genealogists showing the period from the 1650s to 1914 which saw the emigration from Europe to America, ending with the outbreak of the First World War.
established to use BYU resources to simplify family history and to support training for life-long temple and family history service.
provides tools and information for Chinese-Canadian Genealogy in six sections: Basics -- genealogical research methods, Chinese Names -- Traditions and characteristics of Chinese names, History -- Chinese Canadian heritage, Family Sources -- Interviews and heirlooms, Documents & Records -- Archival and published information, Back to China -- Ancestral homes.
the Church History Library contains materials chronicling the history of the Church from its beginning in 1830 to the present day. The library contains approximately 200,000 published items, including books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, and audiovisual materials. The library staff creates and maintains catalogs and indexes for accessing this wide variety of information. It is the source for the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel database of pioneer companies that crossed the planes before the railroad reached Utah,1847-1868.
an archive of the U. S. Civil War - listing Regimental Index, Corps Index, Letters, Diaries, Research Room and Roundtables.
the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War, and published pursuant to Act of Congress, approved 16 Jun 1880. Series 1, Volume II, SN # 1-130
Names Index Project puts online the names and basic facts from 5.4 million General Index Cards in the Compiled Military Service Records at the National Archives. If you have a Civil War soldier ancestor, and his name is among the 5 million from 30 states and territories that have already been entered, this is the fastest way to check.
Cleveland Newspaper Indexes of Marriages, Divorces, Deaths from 1818-1876 and Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1877-1881
a treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union Regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the State Military Bureaus and at Washington.
guide-index to the above.
offered daily at 10 am, 2 pm, and 7 pm for training consultants and patrons to do genealogy and serve in a Family History Center. Classes on the second and fourth Sundays of each month teach genealogical research. Topics and schedules are posted on a bulletin board near the entrance to the BYUFHL on Sundays and also on our website http://lib.byu.edu/fslab.
More than 84,400 indexed names of individuals interred in small Colorado Burial Sites.
Colorado newspapers from 1859 to 1928 in English, German, Spanish, or Swedish.new material added monthly, and a searchable title list. Eventually the site will provide access to all newspapers published in Colorado between 1859 and 1923.
an electronic filing cabinet for organizing and storing all of the clues to your ancestry collected over the years, not another genealogy program, but an aid to search and retrieval of important facts.
nearly 51,000 entries and more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the Sixth Edition complete and up-to-date.
alphabetic index of 50,000 geographical places and features covering every incorporated place and county, several thousand unincorporated places, special-purpose sites, and physical features, in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1830-1889. Searchable, free access to Local, national, and international news, vital statistical information marriage announcements, death notices, advertisements, including ads for runaway slaves, political and legal notices, articles about the African American community, literary selections, including pieces by Edgar Allen Poe, references to prominent free African Americans.
American archival documents covering 1774-1875 in over 100 collections containing more than 7 million primary source documents, photographs, films, recordings, letters with exquisite penmanship and arcane language, clothing, and keepsakes, providing a glimpse into America's past -- the sole source for some pension information for this time period.
Based on the Barbour Collection of Connecticut town Vital Records and other Statistical Sources
Transcribed church records, vital records, cemeteries, probate records, and many private records, most never been published. It covers central and western Massachusetts, seventy-seven villages and towns, plus ten other scattered towns from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Iowa. Most cover 1650-1850. Over two-thirds are copies of primary records. The remainder are compiled genealogies from secondary sources, photographs of individuals, buildings, and localities.
view TopoZone Pro aerial photos, shaded relief, street maps, interactive coordinate display, and elevation data by filling in the Query Form that searches the United States and its Territories using the GNIS Online Database and USGS National Mapping Information. Queries are of any combination of Feature Name, County, State or Feature Type, combining Map Name with State or Feature Type, or combining Elevation or Population with State, County, or Feature Type.
Family Archives Scottish Immigrants to North America 1600-1800. The Collected Works of David Dobson
Instruction and help for creating a family or personal history, well presented and user friendly.
The Ancestry of Nina Eliza Cummings by William Masaru Cooney and Robert Vincent Cooney, 2007
premier internet portal to an ever-growing list of genealogy research sites. http://www.cyndislist.com
transcribed census and probate records viewable in Danish or English.
Original Danish vital records from parish registers viewable in Danish or English. Free registration required with first access. Downloading is free but read the instructions for restrictions.
Searchable by last name index of Utah pioneers giving family name, first name(s), maiden name of women, birth date and death date.
besides being the home of the national organization and the place to start applying for membership, this site offers a free lookup service in the DAR's Patriot Index of Revolutionary War soldiers and others who served the cause of liberty. Fill out an online request for an e-mail answer.
over 10,000 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials -- historic world maps, maps of Europe , Asia and Africa . Antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps are useful for studying family history and genealogy.
Links to many online databases for death, immigration, birth, marriage, divorce, military, census, research guidance, and miscellaneous genealogy databases and directories. Opens at death indexes, but click on "Genealogy Resources" link further down the page for more links.
collection of death record databases comprised of the U. S. Social Security Death Index, Obituary Daily Times indexing over 8 million obituaries, U. S. Newspapers by state for finding recent obituaries online, individual state and county indexes, when specific locality is known.
Breaking news, insights, new resources.
list of dictionaries and thesauri available online through the HBLL Library.
convert foreign words to english or english to several languages.
E-magazine about genealogy on the internet, technology in genealogy, software and all things technical applied to family history research.
Selected Pennsylvania Civil War newspapers. Searchable scanned images, adds, and text.
Digital Roots is a non-profit BYU research laboratory dedicated to simplifying family history through the creation of powerful and intuitive software tools such as OnePageGenealogy -- large pedigree wall charts, and Relationship Finder, an aid to find how you are related to prominent historical figures.
A guide to starting Genealogy, Free Preview issue.
list of diseases and medical definitions. Author: Brianne Kelly-Bly
List of geographic names and places.
Individual and family information in family group, pedigree and descendant reports, some with photographs, biographies, settlement histories, maps, cemeteries, and timelines.
current U.S. geographic information. Search by place name, street address, zip code, area code or exchange, and latitude and longitude.
Vital Information from the Guion Miller Roll
database index containing over 134,000 obituary records from soutneastern Idaho and 209 cemeteries in southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming, collected over the past decade at the Idaho Falls Family History Center.
Reviews about genealogical technology and news about new developments, a free site, and a premium fee site are available. BYU does not subscribe to the fee site.
as noted in the Diary of Chaplain Phillipp Waldeck. (1776-1780) -- A largely unexploited source of information on life in colonial America is to be found in the diaries of those German soldiers who came to America as the so-called "Hessians" during the American Revolutionary War... Of all the diaries, that of Philipp Waldeck, chaplain of the 3 rd English-Waldeck Regiment, contains the most thorough and all encompassing view of America, as his entire diary is filled with detailed descriptions of everyday activities." Quote of Bruce E. Burgoyne 1994.
from 1892 to 1924 over 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York. Research passenger records from ships that brought the immigrants, even the original manifests for passengers' names. This site is also known as "American Family Immigration History Center."
Mormon Passenger Ship Lists 1840-1850 and 1857-1860, Mormon Passenger Ship Lists 1849-1869, Mormon Scandinavian Ship Lists, Books With Mormon Emigrants, Perpetual Emigration Fund Emigrants, Handcart Pioneers 1856-1860, Mormon Pioneers Memorialized with the Sons of the Utah Pioneers, " BROOKLYN " Emigrants, and Australian Ships.
a free WIKI encyclopedia for genealogy, a compendium of genealogical tools and techniques. Look here for definitions, research technique explanations, medical terms, where to find records, and much more.
over 7 million names covering 1442 - 1850 from English genealogy records from the Society of Genealogists, Boyd's Marriage Index, Bank of England Wills and Apprentice records and more, available for a fee. Free search available at the site providing a hit list but no access to records.
Search for city or town in the US. Presents a detailed description of towns and cities, plots ethnic communities, provides genealogical and historical information and links to cemeteries, libraries, societies, and much more in the target area.
links to various North American Ethnic groups discussing research techniques. www.familytreemagazine.com
depicts 21 state maps at the end of each century. www.euratlas.com.
Colonial America printed material through 1800, images of original Newspapers, pamphlet, books, and more.
Articles and features on current technological advances in genealogical research, traditional research, continuing education, book reviews, personal connections, missing ancestors and family members, database evaluations, details of Everton Library content and access.
Posts 3-4 times a week about new happenings in genealogy.
Some of the Everetts, Fremont Everett, Glass & Prudhomme, Portland, Oregon, 1891
application for viewing the Family Tree Maker CD Collection.
searchable New England Family Bibles owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society containing 2,536 separate files from the manuscripts collection. Each file has a sequential number and a manuscript number, the relevant family surname donor name, transcriber, date of donation, information from the title page, and the name of the last-known owner. Editorial comments are italicized within brackets.
information about current projects, Religion 261 Lessons, and other resources for students and Family History researchers.
Family History Archive is a growing, searchable collection of digitized family histories, mostly in English, which will contain PDF, full text, downloadable images of thousands of family histories owned by the Family History Library, BYU Lee Library, and other libraries.
part of www.familysearch.org for locating family history centers worldwide.
BYU professor Kip Sperry has created a list of preferred Family History internet sites covering a variety of genealogical topics.
step-by-step guide to starting family history research.
complete catalog updated daily by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, searchable by Subject, Surname, Keyword, Title, Film/Fiche, Author, and Call Number.
instructions for determining if BYU has a Family History Library, Salt Lake , film number, plus how to obtain FHL films.
treed links organized geographically and by subject, from the Family History Library's browser link toolbar
databases published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including the 1880 US census, 1881 Canadian and British Census, Mormon Immigration Index, and various Vital Statistics Indexes.
search for ancestor's information in Ancestral File, IGI, Census, S.S. Death Index, Scottish Church Records, and FH Library Catalog. Not updated since January 2000.
A variety of online genealogical research forms in PDF from FamilySearch.
displays LDS temple ordinance information for the dead via the International Genealogical Index compact discs, and is composed of a main file and an addendum. Names cover from the early 1500s to about 1885 and are not joined in family groups or pedigrees. This Database was last updated January 2000.
the main genealogy web research site for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Learn genealogy, step by step. Find Research Helps and Research Guidance, link to Web Sites, search the Family History Library Catalog, Ancestral File, Census, IGI, Pedigree Resource File, Social Security Death Index and a Vital Records Index.
search the LDS Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index, Pedigree Resource file, US Social Security Death Index, Vital Records Index, and Family History Web Sites. www.familysearch.org
preserve and share family history in the Pedigree Resource File world wide, on the internet, in the Granite Mountain Records Vault, near Salt Lake City , Utah , on compact disc or on the Internet.
Beta site published by the LDS Church to help researchers find answers to questions about genealogy anywhere. Users may search for answers to difficult questions, respond to inquirers, and communicate with researchers world wide.
how to start your Family History. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/Welcome/frameset_information.asp
Family Tree Maker 2005 is one of the most frequently used genealogy management databases produced by MyFamily/Ancestry/Genealogy.com.
used to view over 300 Family Tree Maker compact discs checked out at the desk, some U. S. Census from 1790 through 1880, immigration records from the early 1600's, land, military, genealogies, vital records, and some early records for Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Russia, and Scotland.
Family Tree Magazine collection of downloadable forms -- pedigree charts, research calendars, note-taking forms, deed indexes, research journal, correspondence logs, family group sheets and census extraction forms.
Fauquier County, Virginia Heritage Books, Inc 1999
founded in 1976 to serve the needs of member societies, provide products and services to member societies, and marshal the resources of member organizations.
Archeaological Data Recovery in the New Mexico Transportaion Corridor and First Five-Year Permit Area, Fence Lake Coal Mine Project, Catron County, New Mexico
of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc. Search by Name, Location, and Date. Obituraries and photos may be available.
Florence H. Petersen, Boulder, CO 1950
Fitzwilliam Tenants Listed in the Coolattin Estate Emigration
Co. Wicklow, Ireland 1847-56
View millions of government documents from US National Archives. Fee site to view or download actual images, but search is free. Individual members can annotate images, upload personal images,create member pages.
Brief posts 2-3 times a month about developments at Footnote.com.
links to vital records for Canada, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Portugal, Finland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Australia and New Zealand.
descriptions of non-English language characteristics, lists of common genealogical terms, in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Some lists require Adobe Reader and hard copies of some lists can be ordered.
Digital gazetteer of France, 36 thousand communes, 1.7 million place names, Cartes de Cassini, useful links and addresses.
Free online Dictionary link. This site provides definitions, thesaurus for synonymes, language entecedents and roots. Very useful.
is an ongoing project to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes FreeCEN (Census data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers). To search the records that have been transcribed by FreeBMD click on the Search button.
provides an online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns. It is part of FreeUKGEN, an initiative aimed at helping make high quality primary (or near-primary) records of relevance to UK genealogy conveniently and freely available online, in a coherent, easy to access and search, information retrieval system.
provides free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the UK.
extracted from the original bank records, they list birth date, birthplace, occupation, residence, death information, names of parents, children, spouses, siblings, and former masters for many African-American soldiers and freed slaves from 1865 to 1874.
Links to French Municipal and Departmental archives searchable online. Sites are in French and provide digital images of original documents for birth, marriage, death and other historical data.
FAQ's about GEDCOM files.
upload data for free to the internet, search millions of names, automatically match data to your names, control your data, delete and update it. Cliff Shaw creator and webmaster for GenCircles and Genforum stated in an interview: "Ever since I started researching my family history, I've seen ways that online genealogy could be done better. GenForum was my attempt at making it easier for genealogists to communicate. GenCircles is my attempt to make the search for ancestors faster and more efficient. I saw too much wasted effort in people tirelessly searching for the same ancestors over and over. This led me to invent SmartMatching. SmartMatching links ancestors in your file with the same ancestor in other people's files. By allowing you to see all these connections up front, it saves you the Herculean task of searching for all the individuals in your database. The technology has an incredible level of accuracy."
common abbreviations and the words they represent; no definitions.
more than six hundred thousand microfilms and microfiche containing genealogical and family history information are held in the Lee Library, Religion and Genealogy Section on the second floor, East wing, down the stairs under the glass entry.
Search the Family History Library Catalog on the internet; note the film number, look in HOW TO FIND on the Lee Library online catalog at lib.byu.edu on the internet or in the cabinets at the library.
modern equivalents of occupations found in old documents.
official website describing Society, current programs, a list of representatives, and frequently asked questions about the society and genealogy.
List of standards for genealogical entry formats in PAF or like programs. Standards minimize duplication and help keep records in order in a genealogical database.
Breaking news about genealogy, tips, news, insights, and new content in GenealogyBank written by Tom Kemp.
Categorized lists of hundreds of blogs, searchable.
worldwide educational, genealogical databases and resources. A professional genealogy and family history, humanities, and social sciences portal.
Large collection of downloadable genealogy charts in Adobe PDF format. Print from the web or download to local hard drive. Formatted to fit 8.5" x 11"
By the editor of Family Tree Magazine, extensive news about latest developments in genealogy.
Genealogist's Address Book - Listing more than 28,000 organizations worldwide
dates, descriptions, and other relevant information about upcoming conferences and workshops at BYU.
definitions of terms, occupations, and diseases.
from Ancestry.com by clicking in the colored column on the left side of the webpage. Click "Download Chart Now"; requires Adobe Reader. Download ancestral chart (pedigree chart), research calendar, research extract, census (U.S. 1790-1930, U.K. 1891), correspondence record, family group sheet, and source summary.
online, through BYU Independent Study.
list and description of family and local history resources available online in the BYU Library catalog. Click the "description" link to the right of the listing. To view the resource, click on the "connect" link. Off-campus availability is indicated to the right.
a set of links to general information for beginning genealogists.
links to numerous genealogy resources on the internet.
the genealogy section of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, information about events and workshops, news relating to the NARA, research helps, and forms to order records.
features eight separate search engines to assist you in researching your family history.
Encyclopedia of Genealogy. An online wiki encyclopedia for genealogists which is editable and constantly growing. Contains many foreign language definitions, research techniques, local history articles, and links to useful genealogical tools on the internet.
alphabetical list of all Ancestry.com databases.
"how-to articles, genealogy classes and other resources," getting started, getting organized, developing research skills, how-to, sharing family stories, and reference.
began with volunteers in 1996. GeneaNet has a French accent and a more global perspective than most US portals. It searches databases of over 70 million entries or scours the Web with the GeneaSeek search engine www.geneaseek.org. Sections include databases of family photos and postcards from around the world. "Privileged" members (beginning at about $40 a year) get extra perks, but this site is valuable even for occasional visitors.
Publish surname queries and make contact with other researchers and make contact with other researchers.
Search your Swedish ancestry in millions of pages of original Swedish Church Records with Genline FamilyFinder. Log in to the Swedish Church Records archive as a test user and demo genline FamilyFinder. Individuals may subscribe for home use. BYU does not have a subscription, but patrons may access it for a demo and purchase with personal credit card.
Based on Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz
Application that analyzes a genealogy database and suggests research strategy for locating missing data.
'virtual reference library' of genealogical information relevant to the UK & Ireland . A noncommercial service, provided by volunteers in cooperation with the Federation of Family History Societies and some member societies, providing primary historical material.
"All-in-One Genealogy Search Page offering convenient, one-stop, on-line research through a hundred genealogy search engines, surname databases and indexes from the best resources on the internet."
GNIS name and location for about 2 million physical and cultural features located in the United States of America and its Territories; developed by the United States Geological Survey and the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to help standardize feature names.
this Geographic Reference Library infobase locates a town, city, county, or populated place in the United States -- many schools, churches, courthouses, cemeteries, and major geographic features across the United States. Contains the 1854 New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States and the new American Genealogical Gazetteer, for finding old and new place names quickly. More than one million entries, many forgotten or hard to find places. For more about the contents of these titles, see the preface to the 1854 Gazetteer of the United States and the preface to the American Genealogical Gazetteer.
"The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) accesses the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names, and is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN." It does not cover the United States and Antarctica.
"The Atlas des Deutschen Reichs by Ludwig Ravenstein is rare in US libraries. It traces German Empire families in the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, and covers adjacent portions of Austria , Belgium , the Czech Republic , Denmark , France , Hungary , Lithuania , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Poland , the Russian Federation , Slovakia , and Switzerland . It marks churches on and provides religious demographics to the Regierungsbezirk and Kreis governmental units." Some are downloadable in PDF format, requiring Adobe Reader.
full-text German and Russian diaries, journals, essays, books, and more.
Guide prepared by Myrna Liddell to aid in researching in the Deutsches Geschlechterbuchs, German families lineage book series. Includes subseries for different regions of the former German empire. Old German Gothic Script The Lee Library has five of the 200+ printed volumes. The Salt Lake Family History Library has a complete collection. A CD ROM collection is not in the HBLL.
the Global Gazette offers family history "How-To" articles, and heritage news for genealogists and historians.
Canadian genealogical research resources and helps, some free, some commercial.
extensive genealogical glossary found at the "glossary" link on the top right corner of the FamilySearch webpage.
Godfrey Library provides an Online Resources Portal Patrons may access the site as a guest by clicking on "Go" on the login box after clicking on the enter link. Guests may access dozens of Internet resources (Vital Records Indexes; Newspaper Indexes; Military Indexes and more) but will NOT have access to our databases licensed from HeritageQuest Online; EBSCO; Marquis Who's Who; etc. that are only available to individuals with a Godfrey Scholar library card, which may be purchased. All may register for a Godfrey Scholar library card by calling (860) 346-4375 for quick access to online resources, or by mailing your registration. The annual fee is $35.
popular search engine for accessing the internet.
This Google site will narrow your family search using your family information to research your genealogy. It will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" that will likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google to find ancestry information on the Internet.
popular search engine now has a link to United States maps.
full-text LDS gospel library, GospeLink 2001 contains over 3,000 works from the GospeLink and the Infobase libraries including scriptures, reference works, LDS periodicals, works by General Authorities, works by and for Latter-day Saints, and a World Classics library.
contains over 3,000 works including scriptures, reference works, LDS periodicals, works by General Authorities, works by and for Latter-day Saints, and a World Classics library.
A History of One Branch of the Fairfield, CT Gray Family Mary S. G. May, Middletown, CT 1953
graonline.com, Genealogy Research Associates provides an online Basic Course in American Genealogy.
Brigham Young University 's Harold B. Lee library searchable catalog.
Internet links to descriptions of Coats of Arms, their origins and royal genealogies.
access to indexed census images, full-text local and family histories, and PERSI, Periodical Source Index to early US periodicals.
more than 300 CDs offering a variety of family history data. All will be merged into Ancestry.com in near future.
collection of 7.5 million and growing, fully searchable, full-text, family histories, genealogical serials, local histories, and primary sources covering 50 states, Canada, and the British Isles. Also, Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Application Files.
the "Hessian" soldier was not strictly from Hessen, Germany. The Revolutionary War began in 1775, with "Hessians" entering the battle in 1776 coming from Anhalt-Zerbst, Ansbach-Bayreuth, Braunschweig, Hessen-Hanau, Hessen-Kassel, and Waldeck; and from Austria, France, Hungary, Poland, and Switzerland; and other areas of "Germany." Germany, a confederation of separate states, including Prussia, did not exist until 1871. The first contingents, from Braunschweig, arrived in Canada between May and September, 1776 and became the German members of the Burgoyne Expedition in 1777. About four thousand early German immigrants (1758-59) were drafted by the British, twenty years before the war which began in 1775, joining those who came with established British regiments, commanded by officers recruited in Germany and Switzerland. From: http://members.cox.net/hessen/soldiers.htm
Histories of Dorset parishes, a collection of articles previously published in The Greenwood Tree.
database created by the state of Idaho containing deaths occurring in Idaho between 1911 and 1951, filed with the Bureau of Health Policy and Vital Statistics in Boise, Idaho.
public domain land sales recorded by field employees of the U.S. General Land Office, state and local officials, and clerks of the Illinois Central Railroad, transferred to the Illinois State Archives for permanent retention in 1957, arranged by legal description, in a database searchable by name, containing information about nearly 550,000 land sales from the 54,740 square miles of the public domain sold within Illinois. Each entry includes purchaser's name, purchase date, number of acres, price per acre, numeric code for the county where the land is located, legal description (township, section, range), volume and page numbers of original entry, and variously, the sale type, and the purchaser's sex and residence.
State of Illinois land tract sales, servitude and emancipation records, Illinois veterans lists, marriage and death indexes, and records from state universities.
a grant from the Federal government through its Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) has enabled the Illinois State Archives to digitize its 3,457 federal township plats of Illinois and present the images on this Web site. These hand drawn plats show Illinois' landscape as it was before American settlement as well as legal surveying measurements. Occasionally the plats indicate man-made features, both Indian and European. The U.S. Surveyor General and his deputy surveyors drew these maps of "six miles square" townships or fractional townships in preparation for the Federal government's sale of public lands. Today Illinois' plats still have legal, historical, and scientific value. Now anyone having access to a computer can view the plats previously available only at the Archives or at those few institutions having microfilm copies. In addition, the plats are available on a CD edition.
Burial Index - National Burial Index for England and Wales 1538-2003
The Stowell, Bybee, Skousen, Park, and Higley Families
sponsored by Brigham Young University's Center for Family History and Genealogy, uses emigration records in emigrant home countries to locate the birthplaces of immigrants which are missing on many port records and naturalization documents in arrival countries. At present the project focuses on emigrants from Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, England and France, but plans are to add other countries.
a group of volunteers dedicated to making immigration records easy and convenient to find by posting ships' passenger lists, free, online.
"In the First Person" allows one to perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and other Alexander Street databases (including North American Women's Letters and Diaries, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries, Oral History Online, Black Thought and Culture, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment, North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories, The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries, Women and Social Movements in the U.S., North American Indian Biographical Database, and Latino Literature).
U.S. Department of the Interior guidelines for qualifying for tribal membership.
browse 3,709,236 cemetery records across 7,882 cemeteries from around the world.
internet archival sites about conservation and preservation, education, Encoded Archival Description (EAD), organizations, and standards.
one of the world's largest collections of genealogical records of deceased people who lived between 1500 and the present containing millions of names worldwide, dates, birthplaces, christenings, marriages, and more.
links to foreign country's genealogy resources on the web.
Internet Genealogy began publication in 2006 as a quarterly magazine about online genealogical research. It is accessible only in the library.
City directory for Dublin 1850. Spelling in the Directory varies. Women are not listed, unless "householders" or business owners. One name listed per address, the "householder" or business owner.
datasets contain: Griffith's Valuation 1847-1864 -- over 1 million names. The "census substitute" for mid-19 th century Ireland; the first systematic valuation of all property holdings in Ireland. Irish Wills Index 1484-1858 -- over 100,000 names, William Smith O-brien Petition 1848-1849 -- over 80,000 names.
Griffith's Primary Valuation of Ireland records and maps, Irish genealogy research source prior to the 20th century, Irish Wills Index (1484-1858), the 1851 Dublin City Census, Irish Royal Garrison Artillery Records, Irish Origins Library.
Histories about Hackworth, Tidwell, South, Gee, Merrill, submitted by Allen Hackworth
Immigrants from Japan came to the United States beginning in 1880. By 1900, the demand for mining, railroad, and farm labor brought a stream of young Japanese males and families to the Western United States. The site focuses on Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Information came from manuscript censuses, cemetery records, obituaries, and local Japanese American historians.
Research guidance for Jewish genealogy from FamilySearch.org
JewishGen®, Inc. serves Jewish genealogists through the JewishGen Discussion Group, the JewishGen Family Finder of over 300,000 surnames and towns, the directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, and databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and Jewish Records Indexing-Poland. JewishGen's online Family Tree of the Jewish People records data on over two million people.
Emigrant Pioneer from Bovindon, Hertfordshire, England 1837-1914
Direct link to the Table of Contents for images of the Journal History of the Church from the Church Historian's Office, part of the Selected Collections from the Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Much more is contained in this collection.
PDF images of Kelly’s Directory of Somerset 1939.
a commercial Internet genealogy company linking to Ancestry.com, Genelaogy.com; OneGreatFamily.com, Surname web, legacy by Millennia, plus links to FamilySearch.org and World Gene project, several commercial sites and twenty sites such as Cyndi's List, a newsletter, an affiliate program, and free items such as software, forms and charts, translation dictionary/tools, lookups, databases, tips and classes.
Arthur Clemens Ernst Koehler:Life Sketch and World War I Autobiography, 2002. Koehler developed microfilm equipment in Germany in 1925 and introduced it to the LDS Church in the 1930s. The documents are an assemblage of materials written at different times, some translated from German. Includes family photos.
Short Histories of Jozef Koval & Maria Prusak and Their Children, Wilfred L. Peters, 2nd ed., January 1, 2007
Lake County Genealogical Society, a Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, 2nd printing 2005
Master Index to Volumes on CD version 1.02- Published 2006, Volume NC1
database providing name, birth year, home, death year, and death place.
offers free computer generated translations of both text and web pages, showing cost of paid translation.
official federal patent land records site from the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of Interior providing access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, plus images of more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Images of Serial patents, land titles issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's, are being added to the site, but it does not contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.
Search Federal Land Patents Databases Find information on initial land title transfer from the Federal government to individuals, verifying title transfer, which allows the researcher to associate a Patentee, Assignee, Warrantee, Widow, or Heir with a Legal Land Description and Issue Date. Links point to related sites by state.
Obtain Certified Copies of Land Patents Users may request electronic, or paper certified copies of land patents electronically or through the mail. Click Search Land Patents on the menu near the top of the page to be guided through viewing and ordering land patents.
LDS emigration records compiled by Grant Davis on CD available through the Folio VIEWS 3.1 InfoBase Manager and the FamLab website. Locate a ship and voyage information, an index of Mormon Emigrants, A Maritime Encyclopedia of Mormon Migration, and more.
LDS Family Histories, Local Histories, Family Genealogies, and Census Records on CD in the FamLab computer room, accessed on Computer A.
official website of the LDS Church . Search the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (1847-1868) database through the Church History link.
computer program like PAF for managing genealogical data, image and sound files, and generating reports and family histories.
locate genealogical microfilm, microfiche, and books for research.
books, microform records, electronic records/media, maps, and more at BYU and the Utah Valley Regional Family History Center.
search the largest library in the world, with more than 126 million items including nearly 19 million books, 2.6 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 56 million manuscripts.
search Congressional documents and debates, 1774-1875. Early military pension information available nowhere else.
Our Lindquist Branzell Family History Book by Barbara C. Martin and Shirley H. Lindquist, 2007
a Cyndi's List type portal.
a portal to the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the history and Genealogy Reading Room, links for genealogical research, Tours, Research Orientations for onsite visits, a collection of genealogical materials, Internet subscription services, searching tips for the online catalog, how to submit genealogical information to the Library, Bibliographies and Guides published by reference librarians, and other Internet resources.
database of records for all individuals mentioned in the Sentinel in Vol I, No. 3 through Vol VI, No. 33, covering the dates from May 8, 1885 - August 8, 1890.
digital collection of historical maps
2004 -- digital collection of U.S. maps and atlases.
dynamic map illustrating the rise and fall of the world's empires, kingdoms, and nation-states, covering the history of Europe and the Middle East from the beginning of the 11th century to the present. Centennia displays over 9,000 border changes. At any date from 1000AD to the late 1990s the user can stop the shifting map and view a explanatory text narration explaining changing events as they occur on-screen. Indexes of important people, places, and events are linked to the map geographically and chronologically. The user can print maps of any date at any scale for presentations, or importation into other software for papers, or articles, or a family history (see copyright notice for some restrictions). Updates are available approximately every six months. Registered users can download updates from our web site at HistoricalAtlas.net or receive them on disk by mail for a small fee.
Search Harold B. Lee Library links to maps.
Search maps of England, Scotland and Wales
search engine providing additional links to maps of Canada and the U.S. , including detailed driving directions for specific locations of interest to the user.
current road maps for U.S. cities and towns.
transcribed marriage record database by state and county of each of the 8 western states in the U.S. BYU Idaho Library ongoing project.
Leuenburgers from Ursenbach, the Kuenzles from Arnegg / Marcel Leuenberger. 2005
marriages lists of groom, bride, marriage date and sources.
computer program like PAF for managing genealogical data, image and sound files, and generating reports and family histories.
Mayflower passenger lists, biographies, genealogies, wills, and sources, and pilgrim ship lists.
The "Mayflower History Reference Collection" CD-ROM has been published on Citrix
Glossary of archaic medical terms and modern definitions that help decipher cause of death from old documents.Updated often in all European languages; English and German, most extensive to date. Terms listed once. Check other headings if term is not in alphabetical lists. Use the Google search tool.
Collection of links to Michigan genealogical data, military, census, and more.
database Family History Library film numbers at the BYUFHL.
Account of the untimely death of Pedro Luis de Montbrun in Trinidad in 1890. Corona Funebre a la Memoria del Señor Doctor Pedro Luis De Montbrun. Stevens y Morris Grabadores é Impresores, Nueva York, 1891.
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University call number: UH 347 .m65 c67x 1891.
records from the geographic region that includes Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. At present, only data from Mexico is posted.
Regions:
Mexico - All the country of Mexico
Central American Region - Not included in the year 2000 release of Middle America. When included it will contain the following countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
Caribbean (West Indies) Region - Not included in the year 2000 release of Middle America. When it is it will contain the following countries: Turks and Caicos Islands, Bahamas, Grand Bahama Island, Great Inagua Island, Abaco Islands, Bimini Islands, Eleuthera Island, Exuma Islands, Long Island, Mayaguana Island, New Providence Island, Rum Cay, San Salvador Island.
Greater Antilles - Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grand Caymans Islands, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
Lesser Antilles - Virgin Islands Territory, St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John, Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Leeward Islands, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Guadeloupe,Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Windward Islands, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Netherlands Antilles - Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao.
organizations and institutions that provide online access to maps and gazetteers of Europe , the United Kingdom , the U.S, and other countries. The maps vary in size, complexity, detail, and geographical information.
Full text publications about the Mormon Battalion. Interactive Google Earth map of the Battalion's trek and the Mormon Trail. Names and information about members of the Mormon Battalion.
search by names, browse passenger lists, read personal accounts of voyages, or information about ships.
is the most complete listing of individuals and companies in which Mormon pioneer emigrants traveled west to Utah from 1847 through 1868. It is an incomplete listing, as rosters have not been found for all companies. It also identifies sources to learn more about the experiences of each company.
tips for tracing pioneer ancestors (1847-1868) from Europe , Scandinavia , Australia , and South Africa to Salt Lake City.
An index to over 100,000 biographical sketches from 185 published volumes covering persons living between 1820 and 1981 in northern Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and southwestern Canada.
Mystic Seaport (with the help of The Mariners' Museum, the Maine Maritime Museum, The Peabody Essex Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) has put together a collection of the earliest-published American ship registers. They begin with the New York Marine Register (1857) and go through The Record of American and Foreign Shipping for 1900. This 55 volumes containing about 50,000 pages and a million records.
large on-line database of linked family records by time period.
an independent Federal agency, America 's national recordkeeper. NARA 's mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. It safeguards the records upon which our democracy depends.
online catalog of NARA 's nationwide holdings in the Washington , DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC allows you to perform a keyword, digitized image, and location search. You can also search by organization, person, or topic.
assists researchers in discovering Native American ancestry, culture, clan, chiefs, and townships of each Native American tribe, Indian Rolls, which are the most complete on the web, searchable by name, card number, or roll number.
steps for searching. 1. Beginning Search, 2. Federal Records, 3. Federal and Tribal Census Records, 4. Land Allotment Records, 5. Financial, School, and Health Records.
Index to Tree Talks County Packets 1961-2001 CNYGS Tree Talks 1652-1978
how to determine eligibility for tribal membership, links for tracing Indian ancestry.
Native American Indian Genealogy Records & Databases, links to Dawes Commission Records & Indexes for Individual Tribes.
Nellie Gillen Memories and Legacy - Her Autobiography
Collection of pedigrees compiled by Rev. Carl V. Nelson for his relatives, the Williams, Hood Nelson Johnson families.
Baptismal records of the Dutch Reformed Churches in the City of Groningen Netherlands - JoAnn Riley McKey
resource for genealogists and family historians seeking excellence in educational offerings, publications and materials, research and research guidance, and opportunities to interact with others.
free cooperative cataloging organization offering several catalogs through the Library of Congress, providing programs and services, of interest to archivists and other researches.
produced by the Oklahoma Historical Society, offering access to Books, Databases, Historical Photos, National Archives Connection, and Supplementary Info.
about 2,500 family records, searchable by name, location, or date, or a combination.
A Genealogical Dictionary of the first settlers of New England showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register / by James Savage
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), Located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest genealogical society in the country. It was founded in 1845. For over 150 years, NEHGS has helped new and experienced researchers trace their heritage in New England and around the world. NEHGS provides numerous online databases for vital records, cemeteries and other record types, articles, an online store, and research assistance.
"Torrey," or Torrey's Marriage Index, is a compilation of approximately 37,000 known or presumed marriages occurring prior to 1700, arranged alphabetically by groom, estimated to list 99% of all marriages, it is one of the principal resources for seventeenth-century New England genealogy.
Ten gazetteers about the New England states:
* John Hayward, The New England Gazetteer; Descriptions of All States, Counties and Towns in New England Fashionable Resorts within that Territory, Alphabetically Arranged (1839)
* John C. Pease and John M. Niles, Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island (1819)
* P.J. Hannifan and Co., Road and County Map of Connecticut and Rhode Island and Gazetteer... and Business Directory (1898)
* Geo. J. Varney, Gazetteer of the State of Maine; With Numerous Illustrations (1886)
* Rev. Elias Nason, M.A., A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts (1874)
* Eliphalet Merrill and Phinehas Merrill, Esq., A Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire, In Three Parts (1817)
* John Farmer and Jacob B. Moore, A Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire (1823)
* Alonzo J. Fogg, The Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire; Containing Descriptions of all of the Counties, Towns and Villages; Also Boundaries and Area of the State and its Natural Resources (1874)
* Zadock Thompson, History of Vermont, Natural, Civil, and Statistical in Three Parts, with a new Map of the State, and 200 engravings (1842, 1853)
* E. P. Walton, Walton's Vermont Register and Farmers' Almanac for 1879 (1879)
More than 4,600 pages.
Heritage Books Archives - Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Mercer county, New Jersey
Library of Congress, Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, a website providing indexes, links to and lists of online newspaper archives, free and commercial sites.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record was founded in 1870. The Record is an essential New York source for genealogists, historians, and biographers. Most Record articles focus on families that lived in New York State. The Record is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October, and is edited by Harry Macy, Jr., F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S., a well-known specialist in New York genealogy.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record was founded in 1870. The Record is an essential New York source for genealogists, historians, and biographers. Most Record articles focus on families that lived in New York State. The Record is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October, and is edited by Harry Macy, Jr., F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S., a well-known specialist in New York genealogy.
updated newspaper archives.
site that strives to become a complete resource for family history research using newspapers, composed of over 12,000+ news items, from a single entry to an entire newspaper, all provided by site visitors and made available free of charge, growing daily.
database of birth, christening, and marriage records from selected states and provinces of the United States and Canada covering approximately 1620 to 1888, about 5 million names on seven compact discs, name, parents' names, the date and place of birth, christening, or marriage, and the name of the spouse, and reference information to locate the original record on a microfilm.
An account written prior to his death June 5, 1912, considerably abridged.
learn to trace Norwegian ancestors; how to find living relatives in Norway
links to online obituary sources.
individual "State Guides" with links to the best obituary archives and databases.
Obituaries de la province de Sens I-II-III publisher Royal and Noble
links to online obituaries and helpful "how-to" links.
Rootsweb site for obituary information.
index to obituaries in Utah Valley Newspapers, alphabetized by last name at death, listing newspaper, edition, and page of obituary or death notice.
lists by state searchable by key word.
Olive Tree Genealogy has genealogy for Ships Passenger Lists, Palatines (Germans), Mennonites, Huguenots, Native American, Loyalists, Military Ancestors, United States Genealogy & Canadian Genealogy.
shared database linking family trees submitted by individuals into a single tree, not simply a collection of trees.
selected burials in the Ontario province of Canada.
British and Irish record collections dating back to the 13th century, as well as rare and unique photos and books to browse.
definitions for over a half million words from the 20 volume 2nd Edition, word usage in 2.5 million quotations, etymologies, variant spellings, pronunciation, updated quarterly.
last updated in 1992, it helps LDS Church members find completed ordinance data for deceased ancestors, searchable at Family History Centers, on computer and microfiche. The Ordinance Index on Temple Ready for Windows was last updated in January 2000. The Ordinance Index on FamilySearch.org is current and requires a member username and password. Members sign in once using Membership Record Number and Confirmation Date available from a local Ward Clerk. Updates occur daily to two weeks from completion date.
is an outdated program. Update to PAF 5.2. downloaded FREE from www.familysearch.org. Family History Center consultants will assist in converting earlier versions of PAF.
is an outdated program to PAF 5.2, FREE from www.familysearch.org. Family History Center consultants will assist in converting earlier versions of PAF. PAF 4.0 will read and convert PAF 3.1 to PAF 4.0.
is an outdated program. Update to PAF 5.2, FREE from www.familysearch.org. Family History Center consultants will assist in converting your earlier versions of PAF.
FamilySearch Personal Ancestral File es un instrumento que le ayuda a registrar, a organizar y a compartir su propia información genealógica. Por medio de este programa se puede crear y almacenar información familiar para miles de personas. Después de mecanografiar la información de una persona, puede vincular esa persona a varias familias y, luego, puede vincular esas familias entre sí. Personal Ancestral File expone la información de la persona como usted la solicite. Por ejemplo, una persona puede aparecer en una familia como hijo con sus hermanos, o como padre con su esposa. Usted expone los grupos familiares como lo desee. Una vez que tenga nombres en su archivo, puede buscar y hallar a personas específicas. Además, la información personal la cambia o la corrige según sea necesario. Después de cambiar la información personal una vez, la nueva información aparecerá en cualquier momento que exponga a esa persona.
the current version in Spanish. It is not available in Spanish in PAF 5.2.
genealogy program for organizing family history. It will convert Personal Ancestral File 3.0 and 4.0 data files and is FREE from www.familysearch.org.
basic instruction for beginners using PAF 5.2. accessed through the program's "Help" menu.
a PAF add-on which prints customized and specialized charts and reports. Download a free evaluation version or pay for a permanent copy. It can be downloaded from the Church's website or a CD may be purchased for a minimal fee.
a grass-roots, non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization fostering the use of technology for family history.
Monthly newsletter published by the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group, formerly Silicon Valley PAF Users Group. Contains articles about research, technology, genealogical news, and events. Available in the library only.
images on microfilm of Patriarchal Blessing Cards providing film numbers for persons who received LDS Patriarchal Blessings, between 1833-1963. Search for family members to find film numbers. Copies of blessings may be ordered from LDS Church Archives by direct line relatives. Obtain an Application for a Copy of a Patriarchal Blessing at the reference desk. Send it to the Historical Department, Member Services of the Church. Found in the BYUFHL microfilm numbers 392,631-696.
list of films recently received by the Utah Valley Regional Family History Center with the film number, patron's name, loan term, date received, and due date. BYUFHL holds about 200,000 microfilms, thousands of microfiche from the Family History Library, Salt Lake, microfilms and microfiches of newspapers, historical works, and other research materials supporting the University curriculum. Locate these microforms through the Family History Library catalog or through the BYU Library online catalog.
Frans Oskar Issaksson Pieti Peters & Ruusa Mikkosdotter Paavola,Their Children, Parents, and Siblings, Wilfred Peters, compiler, 2007.
compact discs of lineage-linked pedigrees submitted to the Family and Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints containing unedited notes and sources. Print charts and reports from this data. Access the data through a master index. Records are heavily duplicated and accuracy depends on the competence of individual submitters. The file grows continually.
ever growing, searchable, online database of pedigrees submitted to the LDS Church by myriads of researchers, of which a CD version is available for purchase for home computers -- many duplications.
Free obituaries, cemeteries, maps, family trees and more for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, updated regularly.
Scans of Fayette County Township Warrantee Maps In the Pennsylvania Archives
Scans of Washington County Township Warrantee Maps In the Pennsylvania Archives
a subject index from 1800, to French and English genealogy and local history periodicals. The collection also includes some literature dating from the 1700s. PERSI is available through HeritageQuest.com via the BYU library online catalog and through Ancestry.com.
worldwide map image collection.
database of Utah pioneers, their accomplishments, plus names of spouse and children, birth and death place, residence, profession, church duties, and details of daily life.
Public PIONEER is a virtual library created by the Utah State Library Division in cooperation with Utah's public libraries. It is one component of the statewide PIONEER project, which serves Utah's public schools and academic institutions, as well as patrons of public libraries. In addition, it offers Premium Databases of magazines, newspapers, pictures, biographies, and research aides that are unavailable on the "free" internet. These databases have been provided through the collaborative efforts of the members of the PIONEER partnership. And they are available to you in your local public library or in your own home.
PDF images of the 1825 Directory of Isle of Man.
PDF images of the 1842/44 Pigot’s Directory for Somersetshire England.
Family History References including: Diaries, Journals, Archives, Manuscripts, Biographies, Chronologies, Periodicals, Newspapers.
3 CDs, numbered: FHS 1-3. known as the LDS Family History Suite, and contains the Provo Cemetery, Geographic References, and the Ancestry Reference Library (ARL).
published in 1913, the work contains biographies, genealogies and photographs of Utah pioneers and early residents, both men and women.
Published in 1913, the work contains biographies, genealogies and photographs of Utah pioneers and early residents, both men and women.
First edition published in 1913, the work contains biographies, genealogies and photographs of Utah pioneers and early residents, both men and women. The 1966 edition content does not vary. Only the copyright page varies. Small variations in the PDF index in the left panel are noticeable but do not affect searching or content.
Birth data for James & Elizabeth Pitt family scanned from hymnal and transcribed. Scanned images of title page, image of Canon-Ffrome Church, and hand written birth entries and transcription. Date on title page 1911
site for sharing information and volunteering to research for others.
interactive, online BYU genealogy course, Religion 261, Introduction to Family History course materials.
Religion C261 BYU -- Introduction to Family History -- Updated 2005 -- Currently this is located on the "N" drive. To access: Right-click on the Citrix symbol located in the lower right corner - select Applications - scroll down to Religion C261
worldwide geographical research guides.
"how-to" guides for a variety of topics.
databases of a variety of printed works.
cultural studies including Social Sciences.
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Revolutionary War Period Bible, Family and Marriage Records
computer program like PAF for managing genealogical data, image and sound files, and generating reports and family histories.
(www.rootsweb.com) -- the oldest and largest free online community for genealogists, containing interactive guides and research tools, linking through the WorldConnect Project to more than 209 million ancestor names. The RootsWeb Surname Registry contains more than one million surnames uploaded by genealogists, and readily updatable.
message boards on RootsWeb.com, by Surname, Locality or Topic.
burials from September 1848 through November 1992 are on CD168 of Automated Archives, Inc. This is CD #168 at BYUFHL at BYU.
map, date established (if known), photographs, and information about county cemeteries in.
VisitScotland's website. Gives instant, free information on people sharing your surname in the Scottish records.
A partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland and Scotland On Line, ScotlandsPeople is the official online source of parish register, civil registration and census records for Scotland. Containing nearly 40 million records, the ScotlandsPeople database is one of the world's largest resources of genealogical information and one of the largest single information resources on the Web. We provide a fully searchable index of Scottish births from 1553-1904, marriages from 1553 to 1929 and deaths from 1855 to 1954. In addition, indexed census data is available from 1881 to 1901. To respect privacy of living people, internet access has been limited to birth records over 100 years old, marriage records over 75 years, and death records over 50 years.
offers FREE services including enhanced IGI searching parish by parish and extensive place name searching. Datasets include original Scottish documents from 1700 up to 1990.
IGI search, access to "Origins Experts" research of Scottish Old Parish Registers Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Death records and 1861 and 1871 Census Records, Scottish Place search, and expert articles and discussion on Scottish history.
Instruction that improves palaeographical skills for historians, genealogists and others who read 16th through 18th century Scottish manuscript records.
more than 100,000 pages of original documents and diaries from Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early Church leaders, plus the Journal History of the Church. Limited access.
TheShipsList -- first established in August 1999, to list details of ship passenger records, contemporary immigration reports, newspaper records, ship wreck information, ship pictures. Currently over 1000 free access web-pages, with new databases added regularly.
Searchable ship lists providing spreadsheets with voyages, crews, ship masters, ports of call, vessel registry and owners of ships plying the Atlantic landing in Canada.
SiteFinder lists over 190,000 places in the United States, and more than 35,000 variant names. Each entry lists place name, county, and latitude-longitude, for plotting on AniMap Plus. The list includes Cities & Towns, Railroad Stations, Trading Posts, Farms & Ranches, Plantations, Ruins, Country Schools, Stagecoach Stops, Indian Villages, Mining Camps, Ghost Towns, and more. Information has been extracted from the US Geological Survey files, and US Post Office records. Many locations no longer exist, or names have changed.
How to use SiteFinder with AniMap:
SiteFinder by Gold Bug allows users to plot a site listed in AniMap Plus, SiteFinder using GoogleMaps/Earth. Enter search terms into fields in a simple search box and click "Search SiteFinder," then use GoogleMaps functions which appear on screen.
updated list of deceased from the Social Security Administration providing partial death information for social security card holders, last place where benefit received, a full or partial death date, and possibly, birth information.
Part of the Victoria History of Counties of England, by William Page, covering Somerset, England.
a historical, educational, and patriotic non-profit corporation that preserves the stories of patriotism, courage, sacrifice, tragedy, and triumph of those who achieved the independence of the American people.
alphabetical list of names with birth/death dates.
alphabetical list of names with birth/death dates.
provides an alphanumeric Soundex code for a surname. Soundex is an Index grouping similar sounding names by assigning a code consisting of the first letter of the name and three numbers representing consonants. Vowels are ignored. Soundex indexes the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 United States censuses and some naturalization records and passenger lists.
historical information about the Confederacy from the South's viewpoint.
Special Collections acquires, preserves, and makes available for use printed materials (280,000 books, pamphlets, prints, etc.) and a vast array of items comprising manuscript materials (8,000 manuscript collections including diaries, journals, papers, music scores, university records [including records of retired faculty], and 500,000 photographs).
links to all fifty state archives and/or historical societies, created by the Ohio Historical Society.
links to surname databases.
online, educational, essay, with links, about the importance of land records in genealogical and family history research.
it is a computer program in TempleReady that helps members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prepare their names of ancestors for tem