INTERNET SITES

Ancestry's GenPage Finder

Hosted by Ancestry, Inc. Actually is a search engine whose results are stored as an index. Indexes thousands of web sites, allows keyword search rather than just a name search.

Web site: www.ancestry.com/advsearch.htm

Ancestry Library Search

Hosted by Ancestry, Inc. Includes hundreds of books and other databases, also the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI). Includes indexes to most pre-1880 U.S. Census records in one combined search.

Web site: www.ancestry.com/advsearch.htm

Ancestry Search

Hosted by Ancestry, Inc. Free data bases for the first 10 days. Contains the Social Security Death Index as recent as February 2000. Has Census records, Ancestry World Tree, periodicals, newpapers, and military records.

Web site: www.ancestry.com

California Vital Records - By County

Contains vital records for the counties of Amador, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Inyo, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Francisco, Siskiyou, Stanislaus, and Yolo.

Web site: www.criis.com

Compuology - by Ricard Wilson

Hosted by Ricard Wilson. Search engine for genealogy web sites.

Web site: www.compuology.com

Cyndi Howells' List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Categorized and cross-referenced list of more than 42,000 links in over 100 categories.

Web site: www.CyndisList.com

Family Search Internet Genealogy Service

Hosted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Has several searches, indexes thousands of web sites, categorizes genealogically, and allows full text search. Searches the Ancestral File and the IGI.

Web: www.familysearch.org

Internet Family Finder

Hosted by Family Tree Maker. Actually a search engine whose results are stored as an index. Indexes hundreds of thousands of web sites, including Family Tree Maker's own pages.

Web site: www.familytreemaker.com/ifftop.html

Kindred Konnections

Hosted by Kindred Konnections. Ancestral archive index that contains 30 million names.

Web site: www.kindredkonnections.com

Library of Congress Surname Catalog

Hosted by the Library of Congress. Tells what has been published, but the content is not actually on the web.

Web site: catalog.loc.gov

U.S. Bureau of Land Management - Eastern States, General Land Office

Searchable database of over 2 million federal land title records for the Eastern Public Land States. Features scanned images of original land patents. Dates back to 1820 and covers 13 states.

Web site: www.glorecords.blm.gov

USGenWeb Archive search

Hosted by USGenWeb (volunteers maintain and add information to the site from all states). Contains thousands of files of extracted records (cemeteries, census, newspapers, birth registers, church records, obituaries, and more).

National search: searches.rootsweb.com/htdig/search.html

State search: www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm