- FamilySearch Collections List
- FamilySearch Research Wiki
- FamilySearch
- FindaGrave
- Rootsweb
- Linkpendium
- Cyndi's List
- Mocavo
- U.S. GenWeb Project
- Steve Morse's OneStep Searches
- Randy Major's Ancestor Search (easy, deep, focused)
- RootsWeb
- Online Searchable Death indexes
- LDS Genealogy (not to be confused with FamilySearch)
- Sorted By Name
- Relative Finder
Charts, Forms, and Research Aids
- Ancestry Genealogy Toolkit
- Census Forms at Ancestry (for transcribing both U.S. and U.K. censuses)
Libraries and Online Collections
- WorldCat
- Digital Public Library of America
- Google Books
- Internet Archive
- Internet Archive Genealogy
- Internet Archive Books
- Wayback Machine from Internet Archive
Immigration
British Resources
- FreeReg - Transcriptions of parish registers
- GENUKI: UK and Ireland Genealogy
- 1911Cenus.org - despite its name this site has information about every U.K. census plus links to other genealogy resources
German Resources
- German Civil Registrations: A guide to German birth, marriage, and death registration
- Ten Tips for Deciphering Old German Handwriting
- SK Translations: German-English Translation Services
Maps
- Old Maps Online
- United States Digital Map Library
- USGU Historical Topographic Map Explorer
- Historic Map Works Earth Basic (free) from Historic Map Works
- Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries from The Newberry Library
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at Library of Congress
Newspapers and Books of Their Times
- Elephind
- Harper's Civil War Issues
- Google Newspapers
- Chronicling America, Newspapers 1836-1922
- Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- Genealogy Book Links
- Old Fulton History (newspapers primarily from New York)
- Life Magazine Archives
About Earlier Times and Places
- Old English Occupations
- List of Some Early Occupations
- Inflation Calculator
- Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- American Memory at the Library of Congress
- HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
- Harper's Civil War Issues
- Old and Interesting
- MeasuringWorth -1774-present
Image Resources
- Library of Congress Photo Albums at Flickr
- U. S. National Archives Photo Albums at Flickr
- PhotoPin
- Penny Postcards
Learning to Become a Better Family Historian / Genealogist
- Learning Center at FamilySearch
- Learning Center at Ancestry.com
- Historic Pathways, Elizabeth Shown Mills
- BCG Skillbuilding
- BCG Work Samples
- NGS Genealogical Standards and Guidelines
- The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
- BYU Free Online Courses
Diaries of the Past
- A Hundred Years Ago
- World War II London Blitz Diaries, 1939-1945
- May Hill's World War II Diaries, Seventy Years On
- Diary of Adelia Thomas, 1861-1862
updated February 16, 2018
i have my german ancestry (Ahnenafel), the problem I have, it is written in Suetterlin the old german langguage. wher can I find someone who still knows hoe to read it. ai would appriciate anyones help.
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