New Horizons Genealogy is one of the Internet’s long-standing, under-the-radar genealogy websites. It doesn’t look modern, and the navigation feels retro, but behind the simple interface is a large and useful collection of transcribed historical material. Unlike record sites that rely on indexing and search bars, New Horizons organizes thousands of transcription projects by county […]
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Genealogy Trails is a set of websites that present transcribed genealogy records and collections for the United States. Each state has its own website, and there are subsites for each county in the state. It is a totally volunteer-based organization. The following PDF lists all the genealogy record types available in the over 3,000 county […]
The “I Dream of Genealogy” website is not very well known, but it has a set of its own collections and links to other collections. It started in 1998. From the website: “Here you will find free online genealogy databases, compiled family histories, vital record resources, famous and celebrity family trees, lost and found family heirlooms, genealogy search, and you can submit […]
PICRYL is a massive public-domain search engine with over 25 million images, making it one of the largest free visual history platforms in the world. While most genealogists have never heard of it, PICRYL can provide something that traditional genealogy databases cannot: Photographs and illustrations that visually reconstruct the world your ancestors lived in. Even […]
In short, Dead Fred is a photo archive. The site has been in existence for over 20 years. From the website: “Dead Fred’s Genealogy Photo Archive, a free, fun photo genealogy research website devoted to helping you visualize your heritage!” If you are interested in obtaining a photo of your ancestors, you should try Dead Fred. There […]
Reclaim the Records is a non-profit organization that strives to obtain genealogical record collections that “ought to be” in the public domain but are restricted by government organizations. They file FOIA and Open Data requests to obtain the records and if that fails to succeed, they go to court. Once records are obtained, the organization […]
NARA has a great list of 35 Genealogy Research Topics, which has links to further detailed discussions about the topic, as well as guides to other relevant resources and links to collections (both online and offline). The following PDF lists all the Genealogy Topics, along with the inks to the NARA site. Download the Quicksheet […]
The Ellis Island Database is one of the most popular databases for researchers trying to find their immigrant ancestors who arrived at the Port of New York. It has passenger records and ship manifests for about 65 million people, and it has records from 1820 to 1957. The following PDF discusses how to search the […]
In order to succeed at newspaper research, you must search in the right location, and you must search in the appropriate date range. You MUST know before you search if the database includes titles in the locations that you are searching. You must know where to find the titles to match the correct locations and […]
We have a tendency as researchers to underappreciate the value of the documents or articles that we already have acquired, and spend our time looking for new “stuff.” There are so many “facts” and clues that can be retrieved from these artifacts if we just pay attention. And they are just sitting there staring at […]