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| Basic Genealogy | |
| Ancestry.com | Subscription Site SSDI partially free; this is a tremendous resource & offers different levels of $ & limited time for $ |
| Ancestry Library Edition-
subscription by libraries offered for IN-library use only |
Every U.S. census indexed; databases; & minus many Ancestry.com resources |
| Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet | 264,000 Organixed Links! Blogs, Podcasts, Software, Geography, Ethnic Searches - WOW! |
| DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution $$$ | Subscription Site GREAT research facility; submit queries by mail as no email or phone requests for searches; unique docs not shared with any other places & books not loaned |
| FamilySearch.org (Mormon Church) | Largest collection free family history, family tree & genealogy in the world |
| Free Genealogy & Family History Online- USGenweb | FREE genealogy access; volunteer submitted, resources; click on a state & follow to databases |
| Great Genealogy Web Links | Click on "Family History" & then on "Genealogy Web Links" |
| Heritage Quest | Logon in the libarary or from home
using a Michigan Driver's License or library card;
not all U.S. census indexed; PERSI, Freedman's Bank; Books; Revolutionary War; U. S. Serial Set; |
| Internet Genealogy Tutorial | Guided tour to Internet Genealogy, several guided Lessons. You should read through all this. |
| Librarians serving Genealogists - ListServe | Helping librarians serving genealogists; tons of email daily; useful archives & answerquestions about problems |
| Library of Congress | Take a look at the digital collections and services, online access to print, pictoral and audio-visual collections and other digital services; digital interlibrary loan |
| Library of Congress - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers | search & view newspaper pages from 1897-1910; only certain states: CA, DS.C., FL, KY, NY, UT, & VA |
| Linkpendium.com Genealogy and Family History | Click on state, co. for many genealogy links including vital records, cemeteries |
| New England Ancestors | Subscription Site great resources; does not work well with firewalls, anti-virus |
| NGS - National Genealogical Society, Arlington VA | Subscription Site The big society for genealogical research, holds events, family history fairs, book loan collection, member ancestry charts, research aids, members get best access and breaks but this is expensive. |
| ProGenealogist Family History Research Grp | Subscription Site wonderful resource, sites are listed in categories; shows free & $ (pay) sites; order records |
| Steve Morse Site | Ellis Island, Castle Gardens, Ship Lists, Vital Records, Great Search Tips! Some $ sites, many free; large city ED search, much, much more; Steve Morse Rocks! |
| MICHIGAN SITES | Back to Top |
| American Ancestors of Michigan Governors & other individuals search | Mid Michigan Genealogical Society & Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library searchable databases |
| American Local History Network - Michigan - Barry County | Libraries, census, vital records links, funeral homes, Civil War |
| Bentley Historical Library, U of M - historical collection, Ann Arbor, MI | Historical info from all 83 MI counties, pioneer to present; one of best historical collections in U.S.; many images |
| Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library | charges $10 daily fee or $100 annual card; access most materials in person |
| Clark Historical Library, Mt. Pleasant, MI | part of CMU; collections, , hosts events, online MI Co. histories/atlases databases |
| Everton Publishers - Genealogy - Michigan | Links to great sites, history, state page, many MI hisory & genealogy sites |
| Library of Michigan Genealogy Web Sites | a wonderful list of useful sites |
| Michigan Biographical Index | indexed many different publications; need to go to these for actual bio info. |
| Public Libraries.com - Michigan | A-Z name list, city, system, address, phone #; links to libraries, systems |
| Southwest Michigan Military Index | vets who have lived in Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo or Van Buren |
| Southwest Michigan Obituary Index | Subscription Site almost 100,000 entries, early to 2000 in area newspapers; order obits for |
| Van Buren Co. MI, U.S. GenWeb Project | Indexes, obituaries, cemeteries |
| ALLEGAN AREA HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES | Back to Top |
| Allegan County Historical Society & Old Jail Museum, Allegan, MI | no internet postings; maintain museum & also pioneer village at Allegan Co. Fairgrounds; organizing records |
| Allegan County Home Page | Allegan
County Clerk's Office 113 Chestnut Street Allegan, MI 49010 Phone: (269) 673-0450 |
| Allegan County Rootsweb | Census & cemetery lists, links to county churches, historical societies |
| Allegan County Tourist Council | Visitor's guide, tourism, weather, local communities, townships |
| Historical & Genealogical Societies, Museums & Commissions of Kent Co., MI | Lists the many large & small societies (township) in Kent Co. & neighborhood associations, local DAR, Ethnic, etc. |
| Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society, Portage, MI | Kalamazoo area counties info; program & workshops; tons of records, lots of trained genealogists, online searches |
| Otsego Area Historical Society, Otsego, MI | Dorothy Dalrymple scrapbooks; down-loadable cemetery map Mt. Home |
| Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, Douglas | On-line research center; lots S-D area historical info; old newspapers |
| Then and Now Historical & Genealogical Society of Eastern Allegan County, MI | Census, cemetery, school records, helpfull genealogists, obits; for NE part of Allegan Co. |
| Van Buren Regional Genealogical Society, Decatur, MI | cover SW MI, including lots material on Allegan Co.; online indexea; many good people, resurces; Family History Satellite Center |
| West Michigan Genealogical Society, Grand Rapids, MI | Kent Co. resources, census, veterans, obits, marriages, deaths, monument co. records; online databases;researchers, great programs, publication |
| CENSUS | Back to Top |
| Blank Enumeration Forms & questions asked | U.S. 1860-2000, Puerto Rican Q., others |
| Cyndi's List - Census Links | Links to Census; most at Ancestry.com $; some helper sites |
| Historical Census Browser | statistical info; education, slaves; maps; groups by ethnicity, race, place of birth |
| U.S. Census Bureau | info.; no searches, but links |
| U.S. 1930 Census Microfilm Locator & Finding Guide | NARA guide to locate roll # of film; not the film itself or a names guide |
| MILITARY | Back to Top |
| 1840 Census of Pensioners | Click on state; has A-Z lists of pensioners |
| American Civil War Homepage | Outlined resources, states, Civil War Army/Navy - great links |
| Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System | Regiments, prisons, cemeteries, battles, medal of honor…more |
| Michigan Civil War files | & Spanish-Am War, Woman's Relief Corps, other military records; links |
| Michigan in the Civil War | Regimental histories, deaths; photos of MI Gettysburg monuments |
| Online Civil War Indexes, Records and Rosters | General & specific guides; lists by state; both free & $$ sites |
| Online Searchable Military Databases - USA | Military; Revolutionary War; Black Hawk War; Vietnam; great links; I have not checked all these; some useful! |
| CEMETERY | Back to Top |
| Cemetery Junction | Locate US & foreign cemeteries |
| Find A Grave | 22 million graves; folk famous, obscure facts; links to SSDI; find US cemeteries |
| Graves Registration - Department of Michigan | Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War - burials in MI cemeteries |
| Interment.net | Find cemeteries in US & a few countries; some lists incomplete, some up to date |
| Michigan Cemetery Sources | Cemetery locations; items in LOM; limited # burial lists |
| Michigan in the Civil War - Veteran's Gravesites | A-Z list 14, 749 MI wartime deaths- unit, name & city; National cemeteries |
| Michigan Tombstone Photo Project | Submitted photos; listed by MI counties; submission forms |
| VITAL RECORDS | Back to Top |
| County Clerks (Michigan) | By county, some dated info; some $ fees increased since posted |
| GENDIS - Genealogical Death Indexing System - (Michigan) | 1867-1897 deaths in MI; incomplete; records of MI Dept of Community Health |
| GenWeb (U.S.) | Click on a state for their links; free |
| Michigan GenWeb | links to county Rootsweb & information |
| Michigan Vital Records | Info on records, how to order records online or by mail |
| Linkpendium - The Definitive Directory | 3/4 million US sites |
| Online Birth & Marriage Records | free & lots of links to $ Ancestry |
| Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA | Also obits, cemeteries, SSDI |
| OBITUARIES | Back to Top |
| Ancestor Hunt | click on obits, obit index |
| The Michigan Obituary Project | Links to counties with user contributed obits; only 9 MI current newspapers allow pre-1923 obit postings |
| Obituaries.com (some $) | U.S. & Canada newspaper obits; larger & regional papers; most newer obits; may charge$ 2.95 to view full text of obits |
| Obituary Daily Times | free; searchable; use "FL" & "Florida" for keywords, non- flexible search; mostly newer newspapers since 1998 |
| ProGen's Newspapers, Obituaries, & Biographies | most are free sites; many are only indexes; many are user submitted databases |
| Southwest Michigan Obituary Index | Many obits indexed from SW MI papers; find obit #, send$ for a copy; Van Buren Regional Genealogical Society, Decatur MI |
| NATURALIZATION & IMMIGRATION | Back to Top |
| Castle Garden | NYC 1830 -1892 (10 million database) |
| Ellis Island | NYC 1892 -1954; replaced Castle Gardens; read history; search |
| Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild | >8,000 passenger manifests transcribed & adoption; naturalization & immigration |
| "Information Wanted" | Database ads, Irish immigrants publ. in Boston Pilot from Oct 1831 to Oct 1921 |
| Irish Famine Passenger Records (Port of New York) | actual records, images > 410,000 Irish who came over to U.S. during the Irish Potato Famine, 1846- 1851 |
| Michigan Naturalization Records (by county) | not all counties posted |
| Online Searchable Naturalization Indexes & Records | listed by state; most free; some only through Ancestry$ |
| Steve Morse Site | click on passenger lists |
| United States Genealogy Slueth***** | wonderful resource, sites in categories; shows free & $ sites; order records |
| United States Ports of Arrival | Available Passenger Lists, 1820-1857; & Canadian & Mexican Border crossings |
| NATIVE AMERICAN | Back to Top |
| Access Genealogy Native Tribe Records | histories, biographies, treaties, proving Indian tribal ties; locations, tribes, links |
| Manistee County Native American Research | Links to useful Websites with Native American genealogy |
| Native American Nations | Info individual Am. Native Nations, A-Z |
| Native Genealogy - People of the Three Fires | biographies, family histories, cemeteries & census & church records |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN | Back to Top |
| 17 African American subsets | click on African-American History |
| Afrigeneas African Ancestored Genealogy | some good links, history, some $ sites, links for grants, ads |
| Freedman's Bureau | African-American history; records of murders & violence; early black marriages Ft. Smith Ark |
| Slave Narratives | Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938 |
| FOREIGN COUNTRIES & ETHNIC | Back to Top |
| The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project | searchable database co. atlases; twp maps, portraits, properties online |
| Canadian Genealogy Centre | Tutorials on most aspects of Canadian genealogical research, educational but with info as to what to search |
| Cyndi's List - Canada | General, Military, Census, search maps; province; gazetteers, geographic names |
| Cyndi's List - England | click on general resources & take time to work through the many links |
| Irish Ancestors- Ireland.com | research Irish family history; subscription; charges per hit & record |
| Irish Genealogy | 15 million records; coordination of Irish Genealogy concerns |
| JewishGen: the home of Jewish Genealogy | search with ancestral surname; FAQ; search databases, disc. Groups, lots of help |
| Official government source for Scottish genealogy | statutory & parrish registers, census, wills; vital records; getting started |
| Worldwide Genealogy Resources | WorldGenWeb plus other links, listed A-Z by name of country |
| MAPS & LAND | Back to Top |
| Federal Land Patents | transfers federal land to individuals; gives time & place, especially early settlers of an area |
| enter name of place + topographic, search | |
| Place Names & Maps | find counties, sites; historical counties boundaries maps; color landform US maps; world names; placenames.com…. |
| ADOPTION | Back to Top |
| Adoption - Frequently Asked Questions | MI Dept. Human Services;for those seeking to adopt/info prior adoptions |
| International Soundex Reunion Registry | Mutual consent registry for adoptees & birth parents, etc. |
| Michigan Central Adoption Registry | former parent & adult siblings consent info released to adult adopted child |
| Michigan Searching | support for those seeking info in MI closed adoption cases, contacts, resources |
| MISC. RESOURCES | Back to Top |
| Allen Co. (IN) Public Library Genealogy Center | in-library use of many $ databases; the genealogy center of the midwest |
| Cyndi's List -Libraries, Archives, & Museums Index | links to LDS, Societies, Library Congress, National Archives, state repositories… |
| Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter | new events, databases online, programs, ratings, new technology, helps; a free standard newsletter & a $ one with more |
| National Archives Genealogy Resources | "What you can do on this website" & other aids & links for genealogists |
| U.S. Historic Maps | early, settlement, military, parks, memorials, links to other historic sites |
| GENEALOGY SOFTWARE | Back to Top |
| Best Genealogy Software Reviews | Reviews of each software, in paragraph form, with highlights of programs; not compared on a feature by feature basis |
| Lou Kessler's Genealogy Software Links | good resource; gives dates of each review; has many, many links to reviews |
| Top Ten Reviews | current software rated; Legacy; Family Tree Maker 2008, prices; comparisons |
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