Bookmarks for Family History

Updated February 8, 2003

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Texas Sites Lone Star Junction Texas History Links
Sons of the Republic of Texas Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy

The online Handbook of Texas

The Texas Ranger Research Center Texas Beyond History (archeology and cultural history of Texas)
Texas General Land Office (including historic map collection. Harold B. Simpson History Complex Research Center

LDS

Official site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Family Search Site contains 400 million names.

  Peer to Peer Networking (under construction)

Commercial Sites

Everton's Genealogical Helper: Web Site

Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web

Helm's Genealogy Toolbox

Welcome to Ancestry Incorporated

The Barnettes Family Tree Bookstore

The Genealogy Home Page

  Research Online Genealogy Today
  Quintin Publications (Family history books)  

GenServ: HOMEPAGE, Family History, GEDCOM Databases, Austin, Texas, USA


Cooperative Projects

Genealogical Database Index

ROOTS-L Home Page

RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative

USGenWeb Project is a very good site for sharing and searching genealogy.

The Ellis Island Project is digitizing all of the immigration records for Ellis Island

Genforum is a forum for sharing information sorted by surnames. You can post comments, searches, or share what you know.


European Pages   Royalty Page
Another Royalty Page

Family Links    New Williams Family Links
The Family Memory Tree by Arleene
A large family site that has Williams and Bunch information
Sweazea Family Links
Sweezy.net
An old genealogy magazine article
A page where I am quoted (surprised me)
Another Link
Bland Family Heritage

Government

Library of Congress Home Page

National Archives and Records Administration

U.S. Bureau of the Census

United States Vital Records Information


Indexes and Databases

GENDEX -- WWW Genealogical Index

Genealogical Database Index

GenExchange community effort to exchange genealogical data
GeneaNet

1626 Genealogical Databases contain 240 million names. Some of the databases are free and some charge.

World Connect on Rootsweb

Libraries on line

Dallas Public Library: Home Page

Texas State Library and Archives
Plano Texas Public Library

State Libraries on the Web

Fort Worth Texas Public Library

USA Public Libraries on the Web

Libweb - list of Library WWW Servers

Library of Virginia

Links

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

A Virtual Reference Desk that includes Genealogy Resources

Genealogy - Welcome from The Mining Co.

TIME.com: Growing Your Family Tree includes tips on organizing your records.

Census Links by State and County, does not include all counties but is growing.

Another online census site

Archaic Job Titles

Time Capsule U.S. Gazetteer
Global Gazetteer Alexandria Digital Library Project
The World Gazetteer  

Maps

US Geological Survey Home Page

  ePodunk mapping site

Misc   Family Chronicle Magazine
The History Magazine
  Legends of the Old West

Societies

National Genealogical Society - Home Page

Sons of Confederate Veterans

DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Sons of the American Revolution

Internet International Genealogical Society

Daughters of the American Revolution

Texas State Historical Association & The Center for The Studies of Texas History

 

Software Links

News Rover is a tool for extracting information from Usenet newsgroups.

Gedbrowser is a useful utility for generating HTML pages from GEDCOM files

GENViewer is a tool for viewing the information in GEDCOM files and other database files

The Gold Bug has software that creates maps that date from the US Colonial times.


State Archives

ALABAMA

ALASKA

ARIZONA

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA

COLORADO

CONNECTICUT

DELAWARE

FLORIDA

GEORGIA

HAWAII

IDAHO

ILLINOIS

INDIANA

IOWA

KANSAS

KENTUCKY

LOUISIANA

MAINE

MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS

MICHIGAN

MINNESOTA

MISSISSIPPI

MISSOURI

MONTANA

NEBRASKA

NEVADA

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEW JERSEY

NEW MEXICO

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH DAKOTA

OHIO

OKLAHOMA

OREGON

PENNSYLVANIA

RHODE ISLAND

SOUTH CAROLINA

SOUTH DAKOTA

TENNESSEE

TEXAS

UTAH

VERMONT

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON

WEST VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN

WYOMING

 

Surname Lists

U.S. Surname Distribution lets you enter surnames and display the distribution in the US.


War sites

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System is a database with basic facts about soldiers from both sides.

USIGS Military Collection links for all the wars, including the 1890 Military Census.


On Line Articles A Genealogy Primer
Multiple articles beginner to expert

Native American Links Index to final Cherokee Final Rolls
 

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