Some of my favorite things include genealogically helpful web sites:

ABC’S OF GENEALOGY:

• Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com/
• FamilySearch: https://familysearch.org/
• Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

BOOKS:

• Advanced Book Exchange: http://www.abebooks.com/
• Books We Own; a volunteer look-up site: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bwo/index.html
• Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/
• WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/

CEMETERIES AND RELATED:

• African American Cemeteries
• African Burial Ground
• American Battle Monuments Commission: http://abmc.gov/
• Assoc for Gravestone Studies: https://www.gravestonestudies.org/
• Cemetery Junction
• Cemetery Symbolism
• Cemetery Symbolism: A Wary Glossary
• Find A Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/
• FuneralNet
• Gravesite Locator
• Interment.net: http://interment.net/
• Names in Stone: http://namesinstone.com/
• Obit Central
• Obituary Daily Times
• Online Searchable Death Indexes
• Saving Graves
• Tombstone Transcription Project
• Vanishing History: http://www.vanishinghistory.org/

ETHNICITY-SPECIFIC:

• Access Genealogy: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/
• Avotaynu: http://avotaynu.com/
• JewishGen: http://www.jewishgen.org/

HISTORY:

• eHistory: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/default.cfm
• Making of America: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
• NYPL Digital Collections: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

IMMIGRATION:

• Angel Island: http://aiisf.org/
• Castle Garden: http://castlegarden.org/
• Ellis Island: http://ellisisland.org/
• Immigration History Research Center
• The Ships List: http://www.theshipslist.com/

MAPS AND RELATED:

• Bureau of Land Management: http://glorecords.blm.gov/
• Getty Thesaurus: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn
• Global Gazetteer: http://www.fallingrain.com/world/
• Geographic Names Information System: http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:1:0:::::
• Goldbug: http://goldbug.com/
• Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection: http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/maps/index.html
• Library of Congress Map Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
• Newberry Library Atlas: http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
• US Geological Survey: http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/

MILITARY AND RELATED:

• US Army Heritage & Education: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/index.cfm
• Civil War: http://civilwar.com/
• Daughters of the American Revolution: http://www.dar.org/
• Fold3: http://www.fold3.com/
• NPS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm
• Prisoners of the First World War
• Valley Forge Muster Roll: http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/muster.asp

NEWSPAPERS:

• Canada Library and Archives: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/newspapers-at-lac/index-e.html
• Chronicling America; Historic American Newspapers: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
• Google News Archive Search: http://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?as_drrb=a
• IHRC Periodicals: http://ihrc.umn.edu/research/periodicals.php
• Newspaper Archives, Indexes and Morgues: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/oltitles.html
• The Olden Times: http://www.theoldentimes.com/

PHOTOS AND RELATED:

• Dead Fred Genealogy Family Archive

RELIGIONS:

• Lutheran – ELCA

TRANSLATATION SITES:

• Free Online Dictionary

UNITED STATES:

• Digital Library on American Slavery: http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/
• National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/
• US GenWeb: http://usgenweb.org/

VITAL RECORDS:

• Where to Write for Vital Records: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm

WEB AND RELATED:

• Cyndi’s List: http://www.cyndislist.com/
• Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
• Internet Surname Database
• Mocavo: https://www.mocavo.com/
• One-Step Web Pages: http://stevemorse.org/
• Roots Television: http://www.youtube.com/user/RootsTelevision
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=genealogy

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