Genealogy Resources

This is a list of my favorites resources…

Hopefully you find them helpful.  I will update them when I can.

General

https://www.newspapers.com/ – $$$ Largest online newspaper archive.

http://www.myheritage.com/research – $$$ super search for historical records

https://familysearch.org/ – FREE family history & genealogy, has some scanned documents.

http://www.findagrave.com/ – FREE Find A Grave, index of cemeteries, my contributer # is 46504709

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx – FREE BLM GLO Records (Bureau of Land Management; General Land Office Records

http://www.ancestry.com/ – $$$ Family History Records online

http://www.interment.net/ – FREE Cemetery Records Online

http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi – FREE RootsWeb Town Search 1.0; Rootsweb has this form, you put the town & state and it will tell you what county the town is in!! Totally AWESOME!

http://www.thewall-usa.com/ – The Vietnam Verterans Memorial Wall Page, you can search names on the wall.

NEW!!! http://www.classic.circushistory.org/index.htm – The mission of the Circus Historical Society is to preserve, promote and share though education, the history and cultural significance of the circus and allied arts, past and present.

NEW!! https://www.usgenweb.org/ – Pages to the USA

Michigan

MIGenWeb Project – Pages to Michigan Counties.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mifgs/ – FREE  Flint Genealogical Society (Genesee County)

http://www.co.genesee.mi.us/vitalrec/ – FREE Genesee County Cleark Public Access, marriage & death only.

UPDATED! https://vitalstats.michigan.gov/osr/gendisx/index.asp – FREE MI Dept of Community Health Genealogical Death Indexing System (Gendis)

http://obits.netsource-one.net/ – FREE Public Libraries of Saginaw, Obituary Database (obits from Saginaw County)

http://cemeteries.saginaw-mi.com/search/ -FREE City of Saginaw Cemeteries (Saginaw County)

UPDATED! https://sdl.lib.mi.us/genealogy – FREE Surname File & Obituary Index held by the The Shiawassee District Library (Shiawassee County) **They are in the process of updating, please be patient.**

http://riverrapidslibrary.org/eshelf-research/genealogy-local-history – FREE Genealogy & Local History at the River Rapids Library in Chesaning, Saginaw County, MI.  This is where I got started at… LOVE this family history name files!!

http://kalamazoogenealogy.org/ – FREE Kalamazoo County Genealogical Records

UPDATED! SeekingMichigan– FREE Exploring Michigan’s Past; Click the SEEK button, and you can search for many documents, but what I use this for mostly is Death Records (1897-1920).

Indiana

NEW!! https://www.sbags.org/main.htm – South Bend Area Genealogical Society, South Bend, Indiana

Canada

http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/ontario/searchable-on.htm – FREE Searchable Online Database; Ontario, Canada

http://www.genealogysearch.org/canada/ontario.html – Ontario Genealogy Records Online

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onvsr/ – FREE The Ontario Vital Statistics Project

http://www.execulink.com/~ocbogs/ – FREE Oxford County Branch, Historical Society & Genealogy Society.

http://www.happyones.com/genealogy/research.html – FREE French Canadian Genalogy Research

Great Britian (England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland)

http://www.genuki.org.uk/contents/ – UK & Ireland Genealogy

Military

http://www.civilwarphotography.org/ – Center for Civil War Photography

http://www.fold3.com/ – Fold3 Historical Military records $$/FREE

http://www.civilwar.com/ – The Civil War website

http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ – Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Systems

http://www.michiganinthewar.org/ (Music starts upon uploading) – Michigan in the Civil War 1861-1866

http://www.nps.gov/ande – Andersonville National Historic Park

http://www.cyndislist.com/cw.htm – Cyndi’s List – US Civil War

http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/historic/research/civilResearch.htm – NY State Military Museum (Civil War Research)

http://www.salisburyprison.org/ – Salisbury Confederate Prison Association

Family sites/blogs

NEW! http://conidubois.wordpress.com/ – Ever Widening Circle

Citation (Sourcing)

http://www.easybib.com/#sourceList – FREE  AWESOME resource, you type in your website, book, newspaper, etc – and it sources it for you!!

http://www.progenealogists.com/citationguide.htm – Genealogy Citation Guides