Genealogy Resources

Find a Grave

• Locate your ancestors in cemeteries across the globe. All volunteer run. Over 170 million
  records available, and memorials are rich with content, including dates, photos and biographies.

BillionGraves

• Headstone and burial records. Over 22.5 million records available.

HMY Yachts

• Research your family's history from ships passenger's lists.

Genealogy Gophers

• Search through over 80,000 genealogy books for free.

HathiTrust

• A digitized collection of knowledge to empower scholarly research, create transparency, and inspire curiosity.

Afrigeneas 

• Education and resources for African-American research

JewishGen 

• Jewish ancestry research

Hispanic Genealogy 

• List of resources for researching Hispanic genealogy

NativeWeb Genealogy 

• List of Native American genealogy resources and searchable databases

Digital Public Library of America

• Over 16 million digitized items from libraries, archives, and museums.

Internet Archive

• Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more - including the Wayback Machine.

Google Books

• Over 25 million digitized items, searchable by "Full Text Only" to see only free titles

Access Genealogy

• Free genealogy records from southern states, military records, small torn newspapers, and Native American records.

Family Search

• Discover your family history. Explore the world's largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources, including a comprehensive wiki for research information and free recorded classes.

RootsTech

• Free recorded conference sessions and blog posts.

Cyndi's List

• Cyndi's List is a comprehensive index containing more than 332,000 links to genealogical research sites online.

HeritageQuest

• Free Genealogy Websites

Olive Tree Genealogy

• Started in February 1996, has more than 1900 pages of free genealogy records to help you find your brick wall ancestors and build your family tree.

RootsWeb

• The Internet's oldest and largest free genealogical community. An award winning genealogical resource with searchable databases, free Web space, mailing lists, message boards, and more.Unavailable at the moment. Currently being updated.

USGenWeb

• Free genealogy and family history online made possible by the USGenWeb Project volunteers. Search free genealogy websites for your ancestors by U.S. state and county.

WorldGenWeb

• Site contains more than 400 national, regional and other specify sites offering research tips and useful links.

WeRelate

• This wiki for genealogy is home to pages for more than 2 million people and families. Its powerful search contains nearly 104,000 surnames and more than 989,000 places.

Castle Garden 

• America’s first immigration center. Over 100 million names.

Ellis Island 

• Use the Free Search to find your immigrant ancestors arriving through the Port of New York at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.

Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

• The Allen County Public Library ACPL has one of the largest research collections available, incorporating records from around the world. Special collections focus on Native American, African American, military, and family Bible records.

Midwest Genealogy Center

• Index to 1.5 million U.S. Railroad Retirement Board Pension Records

Preserve the Pensions

• War of 1812 pension records access

Patriot Search

• Revolutionary War graves registry and Patriot Index from the national Society of the
  Sons of the American Revolution

Chronicling America

• Huge database of archived U.S. newspapers from the Library of Congress

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection

• Vast number of archived U.S. newspapers

Fulton History

• Historical newspapers from the U.S. and Canada

Lonestar Genealogy

• This website includes histories, transcriptions, surnames, home of the Texas friendly email list and family histories. A great place for beginners and professionals!

Texas Genealogy

• Texas Genealogy is a genealogical and historical resource listing Texas county websites.

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

• This collection includes microfilm of the federal census schedules for all states through 1910, printed family and county histories, and a variety of Texas government records.

TXGenWeb Project

• This is a volunteer effort with a page for each county containing useful tips and online databases.

Texas History

• A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.

National Archives and Records Administration

• The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper.

Vital Records

• Information about where to obtain vital records such as birth certificates, death records and marriage records from each state, territory and county of the U.S.
  Note: Texas vital records can be obtained from the County Clerk's office of any county in Texas.

Bureau of Land Management

• Generated when ancestors bought land from the federal government. Five million records dating back to 1820.

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

• Genealogical records created by counties with interactive map.