Finding Your Family History
A local cable channel broadcast an interesting TV show about finding your family history. Genealogy is a new interest of mine, so I’ve captured the web links mentioned in the program. You might find these useful in your family search too…
The US Gen Web Project 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. Organized by county and state, US Gen Web provides links to all the state genealogy websites, which provide gateways to the counties. usgenweb.org
TXGenWeb.org is a related all-volunteer project linking to genealogical and historical records listed by county in Texas. txgenweb.org
The National Archives is a great site for the general public, genealogists, family historians, veterans and their families, and teaches and students. archives.gov
The National Archives will host it’s sixth annual Genealogy Fair in Washington, DC on April 14th and 15th.
The LDS church has a great site for free family history, family tree and genealogy records. I’ve heard this is a very complete family research website. familysearch.org
The Proceedings of Old Bailey is a fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. It’s value as a historical source is the reliability of the proceedings as a transcript of what happened in court. oldbaileyonline.org
Some other interesting research tools are:
Footnote.com helps you find and share historic documents. Many never-before-seen historic documents are available through their unique partnerships with The National Archives and the Library of Congress. footnote.com
WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services, where you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, connecting you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. worldcat.org
Monday, April 12th, 2010
Written by: Mike
Tags: Family History, Footnote, Genealogy, Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Proceedings of Old Bailey, US Gen Web Project, WorldCat
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