Start your family tree and discover your family history! (free to search, annual fee $ to utilize site) Some libraries provide free access to Ancestry.com for their patrons. Usually all that is needed is a library card. Just a note - if you join at the World Level, you will have access to hundreds of foreign records.

This wiki is a website that is editable by anyone. For example, anyone can edit, update, or add articles, and a wiki can tap into the strengths and experience of a community. Every change that is made is saved so if someone makes a change that turns out not to be right, it's easy to revert to an earlier version. As users make changes, they include reasons for their changes, so that others can see what happened and why. If there is ever a conflict about a change, each article has a discussion page, where users can figure out the best way to go. (free)

Find your Swedish ancestors in ArkivDigital image database. there are about 82 millions color images covering various kinds of historical documents such as church records, court records and inventory of estates. ($ - Amt based on conversion of Kronos to USD)

Look up a first name or a surname to see it's origin and meaning.

This is another website used for locating burials. (free) They like users to donate some time by indexing and adding cemetery data.

General Land Office (GLO) provides live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1788 and the present. They also have images of survey plats and field notes, land status records, and control document index records. (free)

A branch of the main website Search for Ancestors, a listing of abbreviations used by census takers.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. (free)

A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online. (free)

A repository of abandoned photographs from all over the US collected and put on line in hopes of finding family members to claim them. Searchable by surname, location and more. (free)

This is the original Ellis Island research site. Search your relatives my names - or even partial spelling. (free to search)

Family history and genealogy records administered by the LDS. Requires registration to view images. There are also images not included in the online search that can be viewed plus others on microfilm that can ordered. The ordered film has a small fee charged. (free)

Excellent website for finding burials and cemeteries. (free)

Advertised as the web's premier site for military records and is now part of Ancestry.com. (free to search, annual fee $ to view actual records) Some libraries provide free access to Fold3 for their patrons. Usually all that is needed is a library card.

Search over 1 billion genealogy records to discover your family history by utilizing the largest digitized newspaper archive online. ($ annual fee)

This site has listings of online County histories, biographies and indexes. Listings are by State and then by County. (free)

A great resource for historic events and biographies of memorable people. Various databases to search. (free)

Some death certificates have a mysterious number written over or near the "cause of death". With this list, you can look up the disease actually associated with that number. Helpful when the doctor's handwriting is illegible or out dated terminology s used.

An easy-to-use genealogy website with thousands of databases, research tools, and other resources to help those with Jewish ancestry research and find family members. (free) - by Ancestry.com

Linkpendium is a 10,000,000+ resource directory to everything on the Web about families worldwide and genealogically-relevant information about U.S. states and counties. They cover both free and subscription sites, with a strong emphasis upon free resources provided by libraries, other government agencies, genealogical and historical societies, and individuals.

A map created by University of Edinburg visualizing the location, names and much more information about the Witches listed in the Survey of Scottish Witcraft Database. Clicking on an image will show information about that person or expand to show more people.

Build a family tree, share it with relatives. Search US and Foreign databases, newspaper archives, etc. Free family tree builder software. Read more here: http://blog.myheritage.com/media-kit-myheritage-com/ (Basic plan of up to 250 people in a tree is free; $ Premium plan)

Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept forever. Those records are preserved in the National Archives and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family's history, need to prove a veteran's military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you. (free)

The Ancestor Hunt website has a page dedicated to Newspaper research, how-to's and loads of links to digitized newspapers! (free)

Featuring newspapers from the 1700s–2000s, over 3,500 newspapers across the US, plus millions of additional pages added every month. ($ - has a 1 month plan too)

More than 2 million documents in the Archives and Records of the Land Office are available online and in full-color PDF format, available for download for free. Almost all maps are available for viewing online, many with zooming capability to examine in greater detail. (free)

The TXGenWeb Project is a grass-roots all volunteer genealogical/historical effort. Each county webpage is commercial free and contains useful tips, online databases particular to that area, volunteer lookups, surname queries, descriptions of local libraries, historical background information, contact information, and much more. (free)

This particular link will take you to a listing of Texas county records available on microfilm. The microfilm can be loaned to a local library for viewing. (free)

This is a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone. (free)