Where
to Start Family History Research?
The Genealogy Home Page and Cyndi's List
- One of the best resources for finding any information is the
search engine Google.com.
Their resource pages for genealogy are wonderful. The address is
found by going to Society>Genealogy>Resources. Click
here.
Google list sites for beginners, provides the most popular sites
in page-rank order or in alphabetical order, and also provides
links to tutorials. RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com
- and Ancestry.com
are their top rank favorites. RootsWeb's Index
to Sources is a good starting point.
- There are several other good places to start with family
history research. The The
Genealogy Home Page has guides, help, libraries, maps,
deeds and photography, resource sites, genealogy software,
societies, events, and commercial services. The Genealogy Home
Page will, in turn, refer you to such sites as the Latter Day
Saints research guides; these are also referenced on these
pages.
- Cyndi's List
has over 28,950 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over
90 categories. For Texas, see http://www.CyndisList.com/tx.htm
The Latter Day Saints
The Texas State Library and Texas GenWeb
-
The United States Department of
Census
- Census
Bureau
- Census
Bureau Data Maps
- Data
Extraction System
- Tiger Mapping
Service (Coast to Coast Digital Map Database)
Library of Congress
- Internet
Search Tools from the Library of Congress give you the
ability to search by geographic location, by directories of E-Mail
Address, FTP Sites, Gopher Sites, etc. as well as use the
extensive subject headings. The Library of Congress Subject
Guides are also extremely useful as starting points to
understand the search terms to use in bibliographic quests. The LC
also gives links to the Federal Government General
Information Resources.
The Allen County Public Library: Historical
Genealogy Department
National and International Sources
Other Sources and Sites
- Genealogy
Sites Recommended by SGVMUG (The San Gabriel Valley Mac
Users' Group)
Internet
Resources via Telnet
Genealogy
Helplist
Genealogy
Hotlist (in the United Kingdom)
GenWeb Database
Index
GenServ Databases
Everton's Guide to
Genealogy on the World Wide Web
FamilyFinder
Index
Genealogy
Resources on the Internet (University of Michigan)
National
Genealogical Society - NetGuide Index
Silicon Valley
PAF Users Group Home Page
The
GENWEB WWW Genealogy Project
Yahoo
- Social Science:History:Genealogy
- TexGenWeb
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