Ethnic and National Sites

http://www.afrigeneas.com Mail list, chats, message boards devoted to African American genealogy research.

http://www.feefhs.org Search member web pages, databases, maps, ethnic, religious and national indexes for eastern Europe.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/ Large collection of genealogical nfromation pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

http://www.hispanicgenealogy.com/ Hispanic genealogy and heraldry information, maintained by the Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York

http://www.irishroots.com/ Millions of genealogical records covering 32 counties of Ireland, North, South, East and West.

http://www.jewishgen.org Primary internet source connecting researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide with databases, discussion groups, special interest groups and more.

http://www.hometown.aol.com/bbbenge/front.html Award-winning site with links to Native American genealogy topics and data.

Genealogy for Children

http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwkidz/
A special project of the USGenWeb Project.  Provides printable forms and a how to get started guide.

General and Instructional Sites

http://www.acessgenealogy.com/ Award-winning, free genealogy search center.

http://www.census-online.com Links to federal censuses and indexes, state and territorial censuses, tax lists, voter lists, military pensioner lists, etc.

http://www.genealogy.com/genehelp.html Family Tree Maker ONline University provides online tutorials for beginning genealogy, internet genealogy and for tracing immigrant origins.

http://familysearch.org/
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Family Search Internet Genealogical Service.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb That part of the multi-award winning USGenWeb project devoted to genealogical research in Texas.

http://www.learnwebskills.com/family Librarian recommended interactive tutorial for beginning genealogists with basic computer and Internet skills.

http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/
The main genealogy discussion list on the Internet, Roots-L.  There is a variety of other information, including a list of over 350,000 surnames and contact information for the almost 50,000 people researching them.

http://vitalrec.com/
This page contains information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States.

Sites which link to other sites

http://cyndislist.com/
Cyndi's list of genealogy sites on the Internet.  Currently over 242,000 and growing!

http://usgenweb.com/
This is the home page for The USGenWeb Project. This project provides Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.

Sources for Records

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy Advice for researchers, list of resources, request forms, and more from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/local/index.html List of county records available for interlibrary loan for many counties in Texas made possible by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com Full-featured, up-to-date Social Security Death Index.

http://arrangeonline.com Largest repository of obituaries and death records.

http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter Convert surnames to soundex code. Soundex is a surname index based on the way a name sounds, and is useful to genealogists for finding various spellings for names that sound similar.