Everyone has their “go-to” websites that they often use to find genealogy resources and information. Here is a list of my favorites for the U.S., Canada, and the UK; and everyone is Free!
- Transcribed U.S. genealogy records
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
- Genealogy collections and records
American History & Genealogy Project
- Transcribed U.S. genealogy records
Ancestry Free Index Collections
- Genealogy collections and records
- Indices to Canadian Censuses
- Links to Canadian Genealogy websites
- Immigration records
- Digitized U.S. newspapers
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
- Civil War veteran records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Commemoration of war dead from World War I and II
- List of links to genealogy-related resources
David Rumsey’s Historical Maps
- 120,000 worldwide maps
- Miscellaneous searchable photo database
- Links to death, cemetery, and obituary collections
- Search facility for genealogical collections and records
- Immigration records
- Search facility for genealogical records
- Genealogical materials; mostly browsing
- Links and information for collections and records
- Cemetery and Burial records and tombstone photos
- England and Wales birth, marriage, and death records
- UK Census Records
- African-American Collections
- UK records from Parish Registers
- Over 50 million digitized newspaper pages
- Transcribed U.S. genealogy records
- United Kingdom and Ireland collection links
- Mostly New York records
- Genealogy resources search
- Digitized books
- Worldwide Surname Research
- Digitized books and other printed materials
- List of links to genealogy-related resources
- Cemetery and Burial records
- Genealogy records, newspapers, and related collections
- Variety of church & civil records including vital records
- New York City records
- Jewish genealogy records
- List of links to genealogy-related resources
- Canadian Genealogy records
Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Genealogy collections and records
- List of links to genealogy-related resources
- African American Genealogy in SC, GA and FL
- Regional genealogy plus railroad pension records
National Archives and Records Administration
- Genealogy collections and records
National Archives Resources for Genealogists
- Links to genealogical records and collections
National Cemetery Administration
- Veterans cemetery records
- Transcribed U.S. genealogy records, New England
New York Public Library Digital Collections
- Over 900,000 digitized items
- Ship passenger lists and other genealogy records
One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
- Links to search genealogical records and collections
- Revolutionary War grave and patriot information
- Genealogy collections and records
- Huge genealogy community
- Fire Insurance maps that show building details
- Links to genealogical records and collections
The Official Land Records Site
- Federal land title records from 1788
- Transcribed U.S. genealogy records
- Transcribed U.S. genealogy records
- Worldwide genealogy records
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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Could we reprint your list in our society newsletter? stilygen.org