Adoptions:

Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA):  This site includes a national registry for adoptees and their parents.

Cemetery and Burial Information: 

American Battle Monuments Commission
If you have military ancestors buried in US cemeteries abroad; this is the place to find them. The site covers 24 overseas military cemeteries with almost 125,000 American war dead, plus Tablets of the Missing that memorialize more than 94,000 US servicemen and -women.

Cemetery Surveys
View nearly 240,000 burial records, many with photos of the actual headstones; the site is richest in coverage for the southeastern United States. You can even import your finds into Google Earth.

Find a Grave
this simple-yet-powerful cemetery database has grown to more than 31 million grave transcriptions. You can search by name (with options for maiden names and partial surnames), birth date, death date or cemetery location, or browse a cemetery for people you think might be your ancestors. There's also a surname index and the Social Security Death Index.

 MortalitySchedules.com
Don't you just hate it when you find an inconsiderate ancestor who died right before the next census? Now you can track him or her with the help of this site: It provides free transcriptions of the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census mortality schedules, in which enumerators recorded information on all people who perished within the 12 months preceding the census.

 Nationwide Gravesite Locator
This Department of Veterans Affairs Web site—a domestic counterpart to the aforementioned American Battle Monuments Commission site—searches burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries and various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries. It also includes veterans buried in private cemeteries where the grave is marked with a government grave marker.

Legacy.com:  Searches obituaries of over 1,200 newspapers

Vital Records:

Seeking Michigan
This handsome new site stands out for its Library of Michigan collection of nearly 1 million Michigan death certificates, 1897 to 1920—particularly notable because a readily available statewide index for the years 1915 to 1920 didn't exist previously. But these digitized records go far beyond a mere index, giving you the decedent's birth date and place, parents' names and birthplace, cemetery name and location, and more.

Fremont Area District Library Database:  Search area births, marriages, obituaries, and anniversaries

Immigration:

CastleGarden.org
Though still incomplete, this database of 10 million immigrants is nonetheless a breakthrough tool if your family arrived through the port of New York before Ellis Island opened in 1892. Still to come are 2 million records dating from the 1820s and implementation of advanced search features.

Ellis Island Homepage:  Official homepage of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.

Olive Tree:  A good site for ship records.  It has other information but they are known especially for immigration records

Military:

Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
An essential starting point for finding Civil War military kin, the system searches 6.3 million names, Union and Confederate alike, from 44 states and territories. Each name is linked to a regimental history and, in turn, capsule histories of battles.

CivilWar.com
Among the hundreds of thousands of pages of information here, you'll find the published Official Record of the war (the "OR"), battle maps and the largest online collection of Civil War photos.

Military Questionnaire:  Fill out our questionnaire to help preserve the memories of local veterans.

Virtual Library:

BYU Family History Archives
This Brigham Young University (BYU) site combines family history books from the collections of the Family History Library, the Allen County Public Library, Houston's Clayton Library, the Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, the BYU Harold B. Lee Library, the BYU Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' historical library.

Canadian Genealogy Centre
Library and Archives Canada keeps expanding its online offerings, with the 1891 census joining the 1881 and 1911 enumerations, along with 1871 Ontario and 1906 Northwest Territories censuses. You'll also find land, military, immigration and vital records, directories and a database to track your Mountie ancestors.

Google Book Search
fast, familiar and easy Google search is applied to the contents of 7 million books, many with previews and some with full text online. But that's only the beginning, as a groundbreaking new agreement will soon expand Book Search both in range and depth of online content.

Library of Congress
Check out the American Memory collection of historic maps, photos, documents, audio and video; historic newspapers via the Chronicling America project; 1 million images, representing about half the library's holdings; and the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).
 

Making of America: www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp and library5.library.cornell.edu/moa
Split into two sites, Making of America represents a digital chronicle of the 19th century in print. The University of Michigan site encompasses approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles—3.8 million pages from nearly 13,000 volumes. The tandem Cornell University site emphasizes journals, monographs and magazines, ranging from Scribner's to Scientific American, totaling more than 900,000 pages from more than 1,200 volumes. Both sites are searchable or browsable by title; you can browse the Michigan site by subject.

National Archives and Records Administration
besides getting you started on your search for military, immigration and other records at the archives, this site offers two digital peeks into the archives' holdings. Its Archival Research Catalog (ARC) indexes 5.4 million records and includes 142,000 digital copies. Access to Archival Databases (AAD) lets you search more than 85 million historical electronic records, among them photos, maps, a smattering of immigration records and more than 9 million WWII enlistment files.

New York Public Library Digital Library
You don't need a library card to access this site's half-million images and documents, covering American Indian portraits, African-American history and migration, historical photographs, surveyors of the American West, Holocaust memorial books and much more.

WorldCat
Now available for your mobile phone and Facebook, WorldCat searches the collections of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide—more than 1 billion holdings in all. There's no better tool to identify obscure or out-of-print books to borrow on interlibrary loan.

Family Search:

Family Search Record Search:

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Family Search record search is a new feature from the Church of Latter Day Saints and contains new information daily. If you don’t find what your looking for check back.

Ancestry, Inc.:  contains many genealogy databases.  You may search the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) without charge.  The Library of Michigan has purchased access to the subscription databases and you may search sources such as PERSI.

Ancestry Library: NEW (Available only in the library.)

Barrel of Genealogy Links:  A resource for numerous links to genealogical websites.

Cyndi's List:  Comprehensive collection of Internet genealogy resources.  This is an excellent starting point.

Family Search:  Official website of the LDS Family History Center.!

Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative:  Home of the ROOTS-L genealogy listserv and the Roots Surname List.

USGen Web Project:  Grassroots project to get genealogy information online for each country in the United States.  Each state has a page listing types of records available.

Yourfamily.com:  A listing of websites under individual surnames.

Maps:

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970:  NEW Produced for over a century, more that 660,000 Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.  Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch.  They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property.  The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.  (Available only in the library.)

Terrafly: Allows you to aerial photographs and census data for any area in the United States

USGS Place Names

Michigan:

Genealogy Resources in Michigan:  Michigan Genealogy Resources

Archives of Michigan: The Archives of Michigan has revamped the look and feel of its online collections Web site, with the assistance of University of Michigan student Cathie Toshach. The Archives will continue to update the entries and plans to add more digital collections in the future.

Making of Modern Michigan

Seeking Michigan
This handsome new site stands out for its Library of Michigan collection of nearly 1 million Michigan death certificates, 1897 to 1920—particularly notable because a readily available statewide index for the years 1915 to 1920 didn't exist previously. But these digitized records go far beyond a mere index, giving you the decedent's birth date and place, parents' names and birthplace, cemetery name and location, and more.

Fremont Area District Library Database:  Search area births, marriages, obituaries, and anniversaries

Library of Michigan's Genealogy Collection Page:  Information about genealogy and the Library of Michigan's collection as well as popular genealogy forms.

Michigan County Histories and Atlases online collection: This collection is projected to provide access to 192 histories and 169 atlases dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 146 histories (in 172 volumes) currently online.

Michigan Electronic Library's (MEL's) Genealogy Page:  This basic list of genealogy links will help you get started.

Newaygo County Genealogy:

Newaygo County Historical Archives: Welcome to the Newaygo County Historical Archive. This site was developed to share the rich and vibrant history of Newaygo County.

Newaygo County Historical & Genealogical Society

October Project: Cemeteries of Newaygo County

Genealogy:

Genealogy Today:  What is new is genealogy?  This site helps to keep you updated.

Genealogy Homepage:  Good collection of information for the genealogist as well as information about ROOTS-L.

Genealogy Toolbox:  Searchable query database, the Journal of Online Genealogy, and a list of genealogy links.

National Archives and Records Administration Genealogy Page:  This genealogy page lists resources available at the national Archives and discusses how to access the records and interpret them.

National Genealogical Society:  Information about the society and how to submit research requests.

New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS):  The homepage of one of the nation's largest genealogical organizations.

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