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You may use the Wilson-Cobb Library's Ancestry.com subscription free of charge while working at our Library.

Ancestry.com has a huge selection of records and information to assist you in your research.

MyFamily.com offers a free service for you to upload your family information to a website where other researchers can view it.

FamilySearch.org provides a wide variety of free resources online sponsored by the LDS Church. Huge amounts of data are being digitized and put online.

All websites in this list are free to use except those labeled as commercial.

I. Genealogy/Family History Magazines

Ancestry
www.ancestrymagazine.com

Australian Family tree Connections
www.aftc.com.au

Discovering Family History
www.discoveringfamilyhistory.com

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
www.eogn.com

Family Chronicle
www.familychronicle.com

Family Tree Magazine USA
www.familytreemagazine.com

Family Tree Magazine 101 Best Websites 2008
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ArticleSearch/?category=101bestwebsites08

Internet Genealogy
www.internet-genealogy.com

Your Family Tree (UK)
www.yourfamilytreemag.co.uk

II. General

Access Genealogy
www.accessgenealogy.com/search/

Association of Professional Genealogists
www.apgen.org

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
www.cyndislist.com

D.A.R. Genealogical Research System
http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/Search/

Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory
www.academic-genealogy.com/

Family Search
www.familysearch.org

Family Search Pilot with new, more powerful search tools
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html

Federation of Family History Societies (UK)
www.familyhistoryonline.net

Federation of Genealogical Societies (USA)
www.fgs.org

Mocavo Genealogy Search Engine
www.mocavo.com

MyFamily.com offers a free service where you can upload your family information to a website where other researchers can view it.
http://myfamily.com

National Archives
www.archives.gov/genealogy/

National Genealogical Society
www.ngsgenealogy.org

Obituary Help and Free Genealogy Forms
http://www.obituarieshelp.org/genealogy_forms_downloads.html

One-Step Search Tools by Stephen Morse
www.stevemorse.org

Rootsweb
www.rootsweb.acestry.com

Rootsweb/Ancestry Message Boards
http://boards.rootsweb.com/ or http://boards.ancestry.com

Rootsweb/Ancestry Mailing Lists
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com

WeRelate 
www.werelate.org

Wayback Machine/Archive.org
www.archive.org

Wikipedia
www.wikipedia.org

III. Canadian

Automated Genealogy
www.automatedgenealogy.com

Canadian Genealogy Centre
www.genealogy.gc.ca/

Images Canada
imagescanada.ca/index-e.html

Our Roots
www.ourroots.ca

IV. International

GeneaSearch
http://geneasearch.com/intl/internathome.htm

International Genealogy Search Engines
http://blog.worldvitalrecords.com/2007/01/26/11-international-genealogy-search-engines-now-online-at-worldvitalrecordscom/

International Genealogy Sleuth
www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuth.htm

Iozoo Web Directory
www.iozoo.com/

Regional and European Search Engines
www.academic-genealogy.com/topsearchenginesdirectories.htmB (scroll down)

Regional Directories & Search Engines
www.ezilon.com

World GenWeb
www.worldgenweb.org

V. Census

Census Records
www.1930census.com

Census Finder
www.censusfinder.com

Census Online
www.census-online.com/links/

VI. Immigration

Castle Garden Records
www.castlegarden.org

Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records
www.ellisisland.org

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
www.immigrantships.net

The Ships List
www.theshipslist.com

VII. Genealogy Community

Rootsweb
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com

VIII. Other Related Sites

Brigham Young Unicersity Family History Archives
http://www.lib.byu.edu/sites/familyhistory

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn

Google Your Family Tree book's companion website
www.GoogleYourFamilyTree.com

Legacy
www.legacy.com

Library of Congress
www.loc.gov

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
www.archives.gov

Newseum
www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

We Relate
www.werelate.org

IX. Commercial Websites (Fee-Based)

Ancestors on Board
www.ancestorsonboard.com

Ancestry
www.ancestry.com
Ancestry.com

Family Link (World Vital Records
www.worldvitalrecords.com
www.familylink.com

Find My Past
www.findmypast.com
www.1837online.com

Footnote
www.footnote.com

Genealogy Bank
www.genealogybank.com

Newspaper Archive (Heritage Microfilm)
www.newspaperarchive.com

World Vital Records
www.worldvitalrecords.com

X. Specialty Websites or Web Pages

Diseases on Genealogy Quest
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases1.html

Glossary of Ancient Diseases on the Olive Tree Genealogy
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hornbeck/disease.htm

Medical Terms and Diseases
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hornbeck/disease.htm

Old Medical Terminology
http://www.thespeeds.com/genealogy/speeds/research%20aids/old_medical_terminology.htm

XI. Military

American Revolutionary War Soldiers Web Sites
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ars/arw.htm

American Civil War
http://americancivilwar.com/civil.html

Military on Genealogy Quest
http://www.genealogy-quest.com/military/index.html

Military Ancestors, Genealogy & History
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/mil/

Military Records
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/

Military-Genealogy.com
http://www.military-genealogy.com/

Research in Military Records
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/military/

XII. Source Citations

Cite Your Genealogy Sources
http://genealogy.about.com/od/citing/a/sources.htm?p=1

Citing Sources
http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/find/guides/general/?guide-id=133205

Documenting Sources
http://bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

XIII. Search Tools

Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com

Top Search Engines and Directories: Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/index.htm

Wikipedia List of Search Engines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

PERSI (PERiodical Source Index)
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3165

Genealogical Search Engine Tool
http://gensource.com/ifoundit

Genealogy Surname Web
http://www.surnameweb.org/

XIV. Google's Specialized Tools

Genealogy Search Help for Google
http://www.genealogy-search-help.com

Google Guide
http://www.googleguide.com/

Google Options
http://www.google.com/options/

Google Help
http://www.google.com/support/

Google Troubleshooting Guide
www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=112667

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com

Google Patents Search
http://www.google.com/patents/

XIV. Blogs

Ancestry Insider
http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com

Genealogy Blog
http://www.genealogyblog.com