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Genealogy
AfriGeneas - African Ancestored Genealogy - "AfriGeneas provides leadership, promotion and advocacy for the mutual development and use of a system of genealogy resources for researching African related ancestry."
American-French Genealogical Society - The American-French Genealogical Society, is a genealogical and historical organization dedicated to the study and preservation of the French-Canadian culture.
Ancestors - Genealogy series coming to PBS stations.
Ancestral Findings - Birth, Census, Death, Land, Marriage, Military, Passenger, Immigration Lists and State Records Indexes and a chat room.
Ancestry - search 240 million names in 1630 databases
Australian Family History Compendium - Extensive collection of links concerning Australian genealogy. Includes information on Latter-Day Saints Family History Centers, coats of arms and heraldry, maps, Aboriginal (Koori) studies, and Australian libraries and archives.
Cemetery Junction - This site is about helping the genealogy community find information about their ancestors. Thousands of cemeteries listed.
Cemetery Records on the Internet - a resource of burial records and links to cemetery WebPages. There are over 25,000 burial records online, all searchable. There is also an electronic journal on cemetery research.
Dead People Server - index of famous persons to find the date of death; if alive, also noted.
Family Genealogy Online - Family Genealogy Online is devoted to providing quality links for genealogy researchers who are tracing their ancestry.
First Name Basis - first name list, rather than a surname list. E-mail links to researchers seeking roots on a first name basis.
Gendex - an enterprise devoted to advancing the progress of family history and genealogy research on the Web.
Genealogy: Finding Roots on the Web - genealogy resources on the Internet. From the June, 1999 issue of the Association of College and Research Libraries' C&RL News Net Internet Resources.
Genealogy Today - The number of genealogy sites on the Web is growing fast. Genealogy Today promises to keep track of them for you. Along with a Viewers' Choice section and free monthly newsletter.
GenSource - Free resources for genealogy research.
JewishGen - "The primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide."
Linkages Project, The - Directory of links for kinship studies and genealogy material used in a university anthropology course
LookupUK.com - "The Resource Center for finding that Lost Friend or Relative in the UK."
London Ancestor - Genealogy & Local History in Greater London. A Journal of source data for Genealogy & Local History in Greater London.
ObitFinder - More than 200,000 recent obituaries from over 1,200 U.S. newspapers. Search by name, funeral home, state, and/or keyword from text of obituary.
RAND Genealogy Club - This site supports the Roots Location List, Roots Surname List and a Soundex converter, as well as many links organized either by type or by regional, ethnic or religious groupings.
ROOTS-L Home Page - Information on genealogical resources found at U.S. archives and libraries, including the Library of Congress. Includes Revolutionary War and other military records, as well as state by state genealogical resources.
Rootsweb - The website of the genealogical data co-operative offers several different services to the genealogical community, including web-page hosting, search indexes and registries. This site tries to offer links to actual information, not just links to links. the British royal family, American presidents, and other notables. Includes a database and information on doing genealogical research on the Internet.
Scottish Names Research - Specializing in Scottish Family Research - Genealogy. One of the best sites around for Scottish Family Research. Has plenty of great links to help you with your Family Research. Have also a Scottish Research Group with over 1,000 members worldwide.
State by state Vital Records Links - This site has links to every State and instructions on ordering vital record info such as birth, marriage, divorce and death records.
SurnameWeb - The Genealogy Web Portal - The largest surname site on the web, search from over 1 BILLION persons! Now featuring 70,000 links to over 32,000 surnames; and over 2,200 one-name studies.
UK + Ireland Genealogy - Comprehensive site covering genealogy and family history in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Includes an introduction to genealogy, information on getting started, hints for working from outside the U.K., a calendar of events, and continually growing databases organized by country, county, parish, and district.
U.S. Surname Distribution - Take a look at this surnames database to find out whether your last name (if it's among the 50,000 most common) is more prevalent in Minnesota or Florida. Helpful for someone trying to determine a starting point for a genealogy project.
Vital Records - This site contains information about where to obtain vital records such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees from each state, territory and county of the United States.
WorldGenWeb Project, The - "The goal of the WorldGenWeb Project is to have every country in the world represented by an online website and hosted by researchers who either live in their own country or who are familiar with their country's resources."
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