Ken Lindsay's Favorite Genealogy Web Sites - Best for the Family Historian

There are fabulous genealogy related sources on the internet and more are surfacing every day. Old Ken wants to help you find your way around this World Wide Web; therefore, only the best are chosen. To make it easier to find your specific interests, they are divided by category. You can get there by clicking on one of the Links on the following Table of Web Sites:
 

Categorized List of Genealogical Web Sites

United States - Government Links

1. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
2. Ancestry's Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Online Search
3. Contacting the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Electronically
4. Emigration / Ship Lists and Resources
5. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers's Project (allows surname searchs of WPA manuscripts)
6. U.S. Library of Congress
    

Genealogical Societies

1. National Genealogical Society
2. Maryland State Archives
3. Allegheny Regional Family History Society
4. Southwest Virginia History and Genealogy
5. New England Historic Genealogical Society (oldest genealogy society in the U.S.) 
6. Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia
7. Czech & Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois
8. Polish Genealogical Society of America
9. The Greenbrier Historical Society
10. Federation of Genealogical Societies
11. Cherokee County Georgia Genealogy
12. Utah State Archives
13. Rand Genealogy Club Home Page
14. The Ohio Historical Society Home Page
15. Kansas Genealogy
16. Wisconsin State Archives
17. Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society
18. Kalamazoo Valley (Michigan) Genealogical Society
19. Delaware Genealogical Society
20. International Internet Genealogical Society
21. Lindsays International

Libraries of the World

1. National Library of Canada
2. New York State Library--Genealogy
3. Milwaukee Urban Archives
4. The Newberry Library
5. Library Information Servers On The WWW
    

Guides to the Internet

1. Genealogy Resources on the Net
2. USGenWeb Project
3. A List of Occupations
4. SurnameWeb
5. Genealogylinks.net - over 30,000 links to censuses, passenger lists, directories, obituaries and cemeteries
    

Native American Genealogy

1. Native American Genealogy
    
2. NativeWeb

Black American Genealogy

1. AfriGeneas
    
2. The Universal Black Pages
    
3. The African-Native American
    
4. Introduction to African American Genealogy

Canada

1. Canadian National Archives
2. Canada GenWeb Project
3. Acadian Genealogy Home Page
4. Canadian Genealogy & History Links
5. Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
6. Quebec Family Historical Society's Home Page
7. Genealogy - Acadian and French Canadian
8. GENE2000 - Le Web de la généalogie
9. Channel Islands Genealogy and More (Alex Glendining)

Search Engines

1. "The Searcher"--an exhaustive listing of search engines
   for finding genealogy resources
2. Online White Pages Directory Four11
3. The Switchboard
4. USPS Address and ZIP Code Information
5. Bob's Pro Searches, (military, naval, passenger lists)
6. StudyWEB
7. LDS Family History Network
8. Family Chronicle Magazine

European

1. Czech Republic, Bohemia, and Moravia Genealogy Research
2. The Federation of East European Family History Societies

Mailing Lists

1. Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative
2. Genealogy Mail Lists
3. Roots-L Home Page
4. Roots-L Search Page
5. Roots Location List Name Finder

    

Scotland

1. The Gathering of the Clans

England

1. The Lineage of the Royal Princes of England
2. Heraldry on the Internet

Australia

1. National Library of Australia Home Page
2. Australian Family History Compendium
3. Dead Persons Society (DPS) Canberra ACT Australia - Home Page
4. Genealogy in Australia

Maps

1. Geography at the Mining Company
2. Tiger Mapping Service
3. MapQuest
4. Rare Map Collection at Hargrett Library

Jewish Genealogy

1. Simon Wiesenthal Center

Hispanic

1. Hispanic Genealogy

Civil War Links

1. U.S. Civil War Center
2. The American Civil War
3. The Civil War Trust
4. Carroll College Civil War Institute
5. Virginia Military Institute Archives
6. The Civil War Home Page
7. 4 Score Battlefield Preservation Movement
8. 1st Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry
9. 1st Kentucky Brigade, CSA, the "Orphan Brigade"
10. 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion, CSA
11. History of First Ohio Light Artillery, Battery L
12. 5th New York Volunteer Infantry (Duryee's Zouaves)
13. 9th Tennessee Cavalry
14. 20th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
15. Tennessee Chronicles
16. 51st Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry
17. 66th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry
18. 142nd Regiment, Ohio Infantry
19. Huwald's Tennessee Mountain Howitzer Battery
20. Battle of Chickamauga: An Alabama Infantry Regiment's Perspective
21. Illinois in the Civil War
22. Ulysses S. Grant Home Page
23. Sons of Confederate Veterans
24. The Valley of the Shadow: Living the Civil War in Virginia and Pennsylvania
25. Civil War in SE Kentucky
26. A brief introduction to Genealogy and the Civil War
27. Library of Congress: American Memory--Selected Civil War Photographs
28. The Battle of Fredericksburg
29. American Civil War: Resources on the Internet
30. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
31. Michigan Historical Museum (Michigan Battle Flags)
32. Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis Shrine
33. The Civil War in Georgia
34. MOLLUS--History
35. Calvin Jones Andrews, CSA
36. Women in the Civil War Book Listing

 

Other U.S. Wars

 

1. Remembrance (Vietnam)

Other

1. CalendarLand (every conceivable calendar for dating)
2. Online Genealogical Database Index
3. Looking for Lost Ancestors--Ancestors Genealogy Research
4. Cool Sites for Genealogists
5. The Genealogy Home Page
6. Lineages' Free On-line Queries
7. Iberian Ancestors Genealogy
8. WWW Genealogy Databases
9. Births, Deaths and Marriage Records Resources
10. Tisbury, MA
11. Everton's Genealogical Helper
12. Search FHC Locations
13. GenWeb Database Index
14. GenTech - a major genealogy technology conference held every January
15. Genealogy Online
16. Salem Witch Trials 1692- A Chronology of Events
17. Notable Women Ancestors
18. Queensland State Archives
19. Sharkey's Links to Genealogical Links
20. Peggy's Links to Genealogy Sites
21. BirthQuest
22. Adoptee's Right to Know
23. Genealogy--Part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
24. The Olive Tree Genealogy
25. Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
26. Sherry Miller's Genealogy Page
27. MerryM's Home Page and Genealogy Information

Genetic Genealogy

1. Lindsays International
    

2. Medical Genetics and Genealogy
    

3. An Introduction to Genetic Genealogy
    

4. Family Tree DNA