Useful Information

• Favorite search engine http://www.google.com/

• Mocavo - A Genealogy Search Engine

• Genealogical google search engine http://www.genealogy-search-help.com

• Easy Google Genealogy Searcher http://searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html

• Index for all rootswebs genealogical lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/

• Family History Library Catalog for Chester county

• Big List of Genealogy Links

• Genforum....a computer "bulletin board " for most surnames http://www.genforum.com/

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

• Usgenweb.....use the state archives search engine to see what has been posted for all the states...and please submit your own information and do your part! Be a giver as well as a taker a href="http://www.usgenweb.com/

• Usgenweb archives and special projectshttp://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/

• Chester County Archives and Records Services, Online Indexeshttp://dsf.chesco.org/archives/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=609990
  • Includes records from Orphans' Court, Register of Wills, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Quarter Sessions, Board of Commissioners, Directors of the Poor, Coroner's Office, Recorder of Deeds, Sheriff's Office, Veterans' Affairs and other Miscellaneous Records.

• Abbreviations found in older genealogical works.

• Ship Manifest Markings

• Bible records www.biblerecords.com/surnames.html

• Locating geographic place names http://genealogy.about.com/cs/places

• Gendisasters http://www3.gendisasters.com/

• Obituary Search http://www.obitlinkspage.com/obit/links.htm

• Footnote - a general genealogy lookup site - lots of historical information

• Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/

• Prints and photographs online http://www.loc.gov/pictures

• Allen County Library http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/

• Genealogical research at the National Archives http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/

• American Philosophical Society Library (in Philly) http://www.amphilsoc.org/library

• Guide to specialized search engines http://www.searchability.com/

• Colonial money http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyIntros/IntroValue.html

• Calculating birth dates http://www.obitcentral.com/calc.htm

• Random acts of genealogical kindness http://www.raogk.org/

• Accessible archives....periodicals http://www.accessible.com/accessible

• Post your family migration http://www.migragtions.org/index.html

• Migration trails http://www.mcn.org/2/noel/Westmoreland/MigrationTrails.htm

• Digital library of American Society of History..antebellum to reconstruction http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

• White pages http://www.theultimates.com/white/

• Historical timelines http://www.ourtimelines.com

• Where to find vital statistics http://www.vitalrec.com

• DAR lookup site http://www.dar.org
  On the main page there is a menu on the right, look for Patriotic lookup.

• Locating Books in Libraries http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

• Old Newspapers http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/search_directory_advanced.html

• Deciphering Old Handwriting http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/alphabets.html

• A Rootsweb soundex converter site http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter">

• Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html#gov2

• William and Mary Quarterly http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/wmmaryqtr/index.htm

• Books we own (free lookups ) http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/index.html#Library

• FTM CDs free lookups (don't miss this one!) http://www.loricase.com/CDs/cdlist.html

• Cecil County 1830 Federal Census Transcription - 1st Election District http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/md/cecil/census/1830

• Deciphering old handwriting http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html

• BOOKS ONLINE - 15,000+ listings of FREE full text public domain works online. Search by author, title, subject, serials. Genealogists might check the regional history subject listing. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

• WPA http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
• American Life Histories (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

• History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania., Henry Graham Ashmead, 1884, L. H. Everts & Co, Philadelphia http://www.delcohistory.org http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead

• Age of Majority

• Area Public House Information

• Christman Diary 1863

• Christmas in Philly

• Cobb Creek Bridge

• Early Cave Dwellings

• Early Penn Land Grants

• Epidemics and Illness

• Free Labor Stores

• Land Terms

• Legal Terms

• Lodge 69

• Murder of Indians

• Occupations

• Patronymic Naming Patterns

• Tradesmen

• Granges

• Passengers and Ships

• Pauperism in Chester County

• This is a neat site, used to tell the distance between 2 places. http://www.indo.com/tips/distances.html

• Interactive Map to Track Immigration

• Sites for DEEDMAPPING software
  http://www.directlinesoftware.com
  

• Uncle Hiram's Adventures in Genealogy www.hocuttaig.blogspot.com

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This page updated on January 25, 2017