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Maps | Immigration & Passenger Lists | Directories | Miscellaneous Records | Other States A-K | Other States L-O |
Other States P-W | Other Countries
This list is a work in progress. Please contact us if you find any broken links or know any we should add.
Notes: Most of these links are to free or search-for-free sites. If they cost, there will be a $ symbol next to the name. Even if your ancestors didn’t go to college, don’t ignore the College Yearbooks and Collections sections – some of those have searchable newspapers and other non-university archives.
Texas Research Libraries and Other Texas Sources
- TX - Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas)
- TX - TARO - University of Texas Archives
- TX - East Texas Digital Archives
- TX - Texas State Library & Archives Commission Online Collections
- TX - Texas Inmate Locator
- Dallas County, Texas Archives
- Dallas Historic Aerial Photos
- Dallas Co. Appraisal District
- SMU Digital Archives
- DeWitt Colony Bios (Early Texas)
- Harris County Birth & Death Index
- Houston Digital Collections
- Harris County Archives
Texas County Court Records, Deeds, & Appraisal Districts
- TX - All County Appraisal District Links
- Collin County Courts Records
- Collin County Deeds & Records
- Dallas County Court Records Search
- El Paso County Case Records Search
- Harris County Court Records (req. free login)
- Hunt County Appraisal District
- Kaufman County Court Records Inquiry
- Kaufman County Appraisal District
- San Antonio Municipal Archives & Records
- Tarrant County Courts Records
- Tarrant County Real Property Records
- Travis County Online Records & Case Data
Genealogy & History Research Sites
- FHPL Archives
- Ancestry.com $
- FamilySearch.org
- Digital Public Library of America
- US National Archives Resources for Genealogists
- US Bureau of Land Management
- AccessGenealogy
- Genealogy Trails
- NativeWeb
- AfriGeneas
- JewishGen
- LitvakSIG (Lithuanian-Jewish)
- RomanyGenes (Gypsies)
- Cyndi's List
- Rootsweb
- US GenWeb Archives
- Olive Tree Genealogy
- US-Roots
- Mooseroots
- GenealogyBank $
- Find My Past $
Cemeteries & Death Records
- Find A Grave
- BillionGraves
- Interment.net
- SAR Grave Search
- National Cemetery Grave Locator
- Arlington National Cemetery
- DeathIndexes.com
- American Battle Monument Commission Search
- Rutherford B. Hayes Obituary Index
- TX - Harris County Birth & Death Index
- Seventh Day Adventist Obituary Index
- National Cemetery Admin
Newspapers (Free & Paid $)
- TX - Portal to Texas History
- Ancestry Newspapers $
- Chronicling America (LOC)
- Elephind.com
- Google News Archives
- Long list of Newspaper Sites
- Another List of Newspaper Sites
- Free Newspaper Archives
- Newspapers.com $
- GenealogyBank $
- NewspaperArchive.com $
- AR - Arkansas Democrat Gazette (1994-Present)
- CA - California Newspapers
- CA - Napa Valley Newspaper Archives
- CO - Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- FL - Florida Digital Newspapers
- GA - Atlanta, Georgia Historic Newspapers
- GA - Atlanta Journal Constitution Archives (1985-Present)
- IL - Chicago Tribune Archives
- IN - Hoosier State Chronicles
- MO - Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
- NV - Las Vegas Age (Nevada) Archives
- NY - NYS Historic Newspapers
- NY - Fulton History
- NY - New York Times (since 1851)
- OK - Gateway to Oklahoma History
- VA - Virginia Newspapers
Military Records
- National Cemetery Admin
- American Battle Monument Commission
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
- Sons of the American Revolution Grave Search
- Revolutionary War Archives
- Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Index
- National Archives - Online Military
- Civil War Portraits
- WWI POW's (European)
- Army & Air Force Casualties
- Rev. War Pensions & Rosters
- Civil War Research Database $
- Fold3 $
- PA - Pennsylvania Military Records (ARIAS)
- VT - Civil War Broadsides & Ephemera (University of Vermont)
Yearbooks & College Collections – Texas
- Classmates.com (Req. free login)
- Yearbooks & Misc College Books (Digital Commons)
- Ancestry.com Yearbooks
- e-Yearbook.com $
- TX - Austin College Yearbooks
- TX - Abilene Christian Yearbooks & Newspapers
- TX - Baylor University Yearbooks
- TX - University of Houston Yearbooks
- TX - Howard Payne Yearbooks
- TX - Univ of North Texas Yearbooks
- TX - Southern Methodist (SMU) Yearbooks
- TX - Rice University Yearbooks (1916-1935)
- TX - SMU Student Newspapers & Images
- TX - Texas A&M Yearbooks
- TX - Texas Christian University (TCU) Digital Collections
- TX - (Southwest) Texas State Yearbooks
- TX - Texas Tech Yearbooks
- TX - West Texas A&M Yearbooks
Yearbooks & College Collections – US
- Classmates.com (Req. free login)
- Ancestry.com Yearbooks $
- Yearbooks & Misc College Books (Digital Commons)
- Historically Black College and University Collections
- e-Yearbook.com $
- AL - Auburn University Yearbooks
- AL - Troy University Yearbooks
- AL - Tuskegee University Collections
- AL - University of Alabama Yearbooks
- AR - Harding University Yearbooks
- AR - Arkansas State University Yearbooks
- AR - University of Arkansas Yearbooks
- CA - Stanford University Online Collections
- CA - UCLA Yearbooks
- CO - Colorado State University Digital Collections
- CT - University of Connecticut Digital Collections
- DE - University of Delaware Digital Collections
- DC - Georgetown University Yearbooks
- DC - Howard University Yearbooks
- FL - University of Central Florida Yearbooks
- ID - BYU Idaho Special Collections
- IL - DePaul University Yearbooks
- IL - Illinois State University Yearbooks
- IL - Loyola University Chicago Yearbooks
- IL - University of Illinois Urbana Yearbooks
- IN - Butler University Yearbooks
- IN - Indiana State Yearbooks
- IN - Indiana University Yearbooks
- IN - Notre Dame Collections
- IN - Taylor University Yearbooks
- LA - Northwestern State University Yearbooks
- LA - Tulane University Yearbooks 1
- LA - Tulane University Yearbooks 2
- MS - University of Mississippi Digital Collections
- MS - University of Mississippi Yearbooks
- NC - North Carolina College Yearbooks
- NC - Duke University Digital Archives
- NE - University of Nebraska Yearbooks
- NE - Creighton University Yearbooks
- NH - University of New Hampshire Yearbooks
- OK - Oklahoma State University Yearbooks
- PA - University of Pennsylvania Yearbooks
- PA - University of Pennsylvania Digital Archives
- PA - University of Pittsburgh Yearbooks
- PA - Temple University Yearbooks
- SC - Francis Marion University Yearbooks
- SC - Furman University Yearbooks
- SC - Furman University Digital Collections
- TN - University of Tennessee Yearbooks
- VT - University of Vermont Yearbooks
- WA - University of Washington Digital Collections
- WA - University of Washington Yearbooks
- WI - Carthage (Wisconsin) College Yearbooks
- WV/OH - LaurelHollowPark.net (Northern Hancock County)
- WV - University of West Virginia Yearbooks
- NM - University of New Mexico Digital Collections
- PA - Penn State Yearbooks
Digital Books, Photos, Oral Histories, Biographies
Maps
- Google Maps
- Sanborn Maps - All
- What Was There
- Library of Congress Map Collection
- Historic MapWorks
- David Rumsey Map Collection
- Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
- Map of US Historical Atlases
- TX - Historic Texas Maps
- TX - Sanborn Maps - Texas
- TX - Old Highway Maps of Texas
- TX - TexasFreeway.com Maps
- TX - More Texas Maps
- IL - Historic Chicago Maps
- NY - Randel Farm Maps
Immigration & Passenger Lists
- Ellis Island Passenger Search
- Castle Garden
- GG Archives
- German Immigrants 1850's (Engish)
- German Immigrants 1860's (English)
- German Immigrants 1870's (English)
- German Immigrants 1880's (English)
- German Immigrants 1890's (English)
- German Passenger Lists
- European Immigrants to Pennsylvania 1727-1776
- 1st Settlers to New Netherland (NY)
- Passenger & Crew Lists for NY 1897-1957
- Passenger Lists to St. Albans, VT
- Passenger Lists for Baltimore & Philadelphia
Other States A-K
- AL - Alabama Archives & History
- AL - Alabama Mosaic
- AL - Alabama Maps
- AL - Alabama WWI Gold Star Database
- AR - Arkansas Research
- AR - Arkansas State Archives
- AZ - State Archives
- AZ - Little Cowpuncher
- CA - Gold Rush
- CA - California Birth Index
- DC - Deeds Online (req. free login)
- DE - Delaware Digital Archives
- FL - Florida Memory
- FL - Florida Digital Newspapers
- GA - Georgia's Virtual Vault
- HI - Hawaii State Archives
- ID - Idaho State Historical Society Digital Collections
- IL - Cook County Genealogy
- IL - Early Settlers of Chicago eBook
- IL - Illinois State Archives Online
- IN - Indiana Memory
- IN - Indiana State Archives
- IN - Indiana Digital Media
- IN - Genealogical Society of Marion County, Indiana
- KS - Kansas Genealogy Indexes
- KS - Kansas Memory
- KY - Kentucky Digital Library
- KY - Kentucky State Archives
Other States L-O
- LA - Louisiana Digital Library
- LA - Louisiana Historical Resources
- LA - Louisiana Birth Index 1819–1915 (some later)
- LA - Louisiana Death Index 1911–1965 (some before)
- LA - Orleans Parish Marriage Index 1870–1965 (some before)
- MA - Massachusetts Searchable Collections
- MA - Beyond the Pilgrim Story
- MA - Sail 1620 (Pilgrims)
- MA - Mayflower History (Pilgrims)
- MA - City of Worcester Vital Records Index Online
- MI - Seeking Michigan
- MI - Kalamazoo County Genealogy
- MO - Missouri Digital Heritage
- MO - Missouri State Archives
- MO - Missouri Death Certs
- MS - Mississippi State Digital Archives
- MS - Mississippi Death Index (1912-1943)
- MT - Montana Digital Collections
- NC - North Carolina State Archives
- NC - Documenting the South
- NE - Nebraska State Historical Society Collections
- NH - University of New Hampshire Digital Collections
- NJ - New Jersey State Archives
- NM - New Mexico Digital Collections
- NY - New York Times (since 1851)
- NY - Fulton History - Newspapers
- NY - Randel Farm Maps
- NY - Soldiers of the Great War
- NY - 1st Settlers to New Netherland
- NY - NYC Marriage Indexes
- OH - Ohio Death Index (limited years)
- OH - Cleveland Memory Project Archives
- OH - Cuyahoga County Records Online
- OH - Franklin County Records Online (req. free login)
- OK - Gateway to Oklahoma History
- OK - Oklahoma Historical Society
- OK - Oklahoma Digital Prairie
- OR - Oregon State Archives
- OR - Oregon Pioneers
- OR - Oregon Pioneer Bios
Other States P-W
- PA - Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Online Records
- PA - Pennsylvania Birth Index (1906-1910)
- PA - Pennsylvania Death Index (1906-1965)
- PA - Pennsylvania Power Library
- PA - Penn State University Digital Maps
- PA - Historic Pittsburgh Maps
- PA - Don's List
- PA - Allegheny County USGenWeb Archives
- PA - Bucks County Genealogical Society Database
- PA - Gen Society of Pennsylvania $
- PA - Allegheny Co. Coroner Case Files $
- SC - USC Digital Library
- SC - South Carolina Estate Search
- TN - Tennessee State Archives
- TN - Tennessee Heritage Online
- TN - Volunteer Voices
- VA - Virginia Heritage
- VA - VAGenWeb
- VA - Virginia Newspapers
- VA - Historic Court Records (Fredericksburg)
- VA - Virtual Jamestown Muster Rolls
- VA - Historic Jamestowne
- VA - Virtual Jamestown
- VA - Jamestown Genealogy Records $
- WA - Washington State Archives
- WV - West Virginia State Archives
- WV - West Virginia Vital Records
- WV - Wirt County History
- WV, OH, PA - Genealogy Pit Stop
- WY - Wyoming State Archives
Other Countries
- SEE ALSO Immigration section
- AU - Obits.com.au Australia Obituaries - As of 2006
- AU - Australia BMD Registries Indexes (Free to Search) - Birth, Death, and Marriage Registries
- CAN - Library and Archives Canada
- CAN - Automated Genealogy (Canada)
- GENUKI (ENG & IRL)
- UK FreeBMD
- UK FreeReg
- UK FreeCEN
- UK - India Office
- UK - Obscure Old English Census Occupations
- UK - Find My Past UK $
- UK Wills & Probate 1858-1996 (Free to Search) $
- UK Wills & Probate 1996-Present (Free to Search) $
- UK Soldiers Wills & Probate 1850-1986 (Free to Search) $
- UK - Deceased Online $
- UK National Archives $
- FR - France National Archives Online Records
- GER - German Genealogy Server
- GER - German Passenger Lists
- IRL - Guinness Employee Records (Ireland)
- IRL - RIP.ie - Recent Irish Obits
- NI - Northern Ireland Civil Registrations Indexes $
- NL - WhoWasWho (Netherlands)
- NOR - Norway Digital Archives (English)
- NZ - New Zealand Papers Past
- SCT - GENUKI Scotland
- SCT - Scotlands Family
- SCT - Scotland BDM Exchange
- SCT - Scotlandspeople.gov $
- SWE - ArkivDigital (Sweden)
- US - Japanese American Records (Archive.gov)
- EUR - WWI POW's (European)