Rootsweb - One of the
largest sites on the Internet, includes a database with over half a million surnames.
USGenExchange -
Genealogical data exchange and surname registry that allows visitors and researchers to
exchange data with one another. It is among the largest non-commercial genealogy projects
on the Internet.
Internet
Family Finder - Genealogy.com provides a search engine that indexes 325 million names
on nearly 3 million genealogy-focused web sites. You can also use Genealogy Site Finder to look through more
than 56,000 links classified by subject.
Obituary links
- Page of links to various obituary pages.
Rootsweb:
Cemetery - A great site to start looking for tombstone rubbings, state-by-state
listing of resources and sites (includes a poem on the wonders of tombstone rubbing).
Rootsweb: Kids -
Site where kids can begin to get involved in genealogy, has printable forms.
Social
Security Database - Ancestry.com provides a Social Security death index which can be
used to look up when and where someone died by last name or Social Security number. You
can also check national online White
Pages to find addresses and phone numbers.
Surnameweb - A large
database which allows you to search for links by surname.
Ccharity - A site dedicated
to those researching their African-American genealogy, includes a comprehensive list of
freedman records, African-American emigrants to Liberia, fugitive slave cases, manumission
papers, wills of slaves, tombstone transcriptions, and a partial list of lynchings in
America since 1859.
German-American immigrants - A page dedicated to Germans who emigrated to America.
Includes passenger lists of ships coming to America and U.S. passport applications.
