Updated January 14, 2022.
General
- FamilySearch Collections List
- FamilySearch Research Wiki
- FamilySearch
- FindaGrave
- Interment.com - Cemetery Records Online
- Rootsweb
- Linkpendium
- Cyndi's List
- U.S. GenWeb Project
- Steve Morse's OneStep Searches
- Randy Major's Ancestor Search (easy, deep, focused)
- Online Searchable Death indexes
- LDS Genealogy (not to be confused with FamilySearch)
- Sorted By Name
- Relative Finder
- Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
- Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000. Questions on each census and instruction to census takers.
- WorldGenWeb Project
- Online Searchable Death Indexes (https://www.deathindexes.com/). This is not a place to search but a list by state of collections to search.
- Interment.net (various cemeteries)
Charts, Forms, and Research Aids
- Ancestry Genealogy Toolkit
- Census Forms at Ancestry (for transcribing both U.S. and U.K. censuses)
Libraries, Portals, Genealogy Books, and Online Collections
- Archives Portal Europe (Lists and links to archives in Europe)
- ArchiveGrid (Lists and links to archives in the U.S.)
- WorldCat
- Digital Public Library of America
- Google Books
- Internet Archive
- Internet Archive Genealogy
- Internet Archive Books
- Wayback Machine from Internet Archive
- Midwest Genealogy Center at the Mid-Continent Public Library
- National Union Catalog, Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- PERSI (Periodical Source Index) at Allen County Public Library
- Allen County Public Library Youtube Videos
- The Newberry Library, Genealogy and Family History
- Project Gutenburg
- Free Genealogy Books at MyHeritage
- FamilySearch Digital Library
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
The Odd, the Unusual, the Miscellaneous that Won't Help You Find an Ancestor But Might Help Explain Some Aspect of His Life
Maps
- Old Maps Online
- United States Digital Map Library
- USGU Historical Topographic Map Explorer
- Historic Map Works Earth Basic (free) from Historic Map Works
- Randy Majors's Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries from The Newberry Library
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at Library of Congress
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- HistoryPin (photos associated with maps)
Newspapers and Books of Their Times
- Elephind
- Harper's Civil War Issues
- Google Newspapers
- Chronicling America, Newspapers
- 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
- PhotoTree
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
- National Genealogical Society Complimentary Magazine Articles
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
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