Access Genealogy is an aggregation site, which means that it has a number of genealogy categories for all of the United States. Its primary feature is links to other collections on other websites. Most of these are free, but there are multiple links to subscription databases, such as Ancestry. It does have records on the […]
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In a word, the Fulton History (AKA Old Fulton New York Postcards) website is a marvel. Created and maintained by one man, Tom Tryniski, this newspaper database has been in existence since 1999 when Tom began scanning microfilmed newspapers. Currently, his database has over 50 million digitized newspaper pages that are searchable by anyone, anywhere. […]
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. Their principles are (from their website): “In forming the Genealogy Trails Project, it was decided […]
New Horizons Genealogy is a site with links for every state in the US in various genealogy categories. It specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Ancestry. From their website: “New Horizons Genealogy specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Genealogy, Ancestry, and Family History. Our record collections include Vital records, Arnold […]
The USGenWeb Archives, in my opinion, is one of the top 5 free genealogy websites. Its pages are almost all the same, so the user experience is excellent. There are state websites, further divided into county websites. Each county website presents links to collections and records by category. The naming conventions are universal, and it […]
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 […]
HathiTrust began in 2008 as a consortium of 12 Mid-West universities that embody the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and 11 universities from the University of California system. In essence, the goal was to create a digital repository of scholarly material and books. Copyright and other factors determine the availability of researchers to view documents in […]
Google has several search engines and databases that are very useful for genealogy researchers. Here is an overview of some of these databases and functions. Google Books has a seemingly never-ending supply of digitized books. And there is an ample number of old books that can be used in your genealogy research. Generally, there are […]
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 […]
