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Government related databases and websites for genealogical research.

Databases

ArchiveGrid on proxy
No account or password necessary.
Finding aids are tools for navigation within archival collections, and contain detailed information about the collections. ArchiveGrid provides centralized access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using XML and the standard for Encoded Archival Description (EAD). The finding aids are indexed centrally at RLG but are supported in a distributed environment — some reside on a server at RLG, others are located on other servers around the world. (Previously known as RLG Archival Resources.)

Biography and Genealogy Master Index on proxy
No account or password necessary.
BGMI provides biographical material on people from all time periods, geographic locations, and fields of endeavor. Over 4 million entries include: name, birth & death dates, and citations to sources of additional information.
HeritageQuest Online on proxy (courtesy of Texshare LogoTexshare)
No account or password necessary.
This collection assembles genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials, as found in the corresponding microform collection. Will eventually encompass materials from all 50 states including over 7 million pages.
U.S. Military Collection
Commercial database (ancestry.com) containing military records from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, WWI, WWII, and other conflicts including the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Websites

  • American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
    Extensive collection of historical topics ranging from African American and Native American history to immigration to maps to women's history. "List all collections" displays topics with their corresponding time ranges.

  • Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records
    http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
    Online access to federal land patents.

  • Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
    http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss
    Includes both the names and basic information about Union and Confederate servicemen, regiment histories, and links to significant battles. Will eventually include prisoner-of-war and cemetery records.

  • Family History Collection (Clayton Branch - Houston Public Library)
    http://www.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/family_histories.html
    Extensive collection of published and unpublished family histories from the Southern United States.

  • Family Search Internet Genealogy Service (Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints)
    http://www.familysearch.org
    Billed as the largest collection of free family history, family tree, and genealogy records in the world. Contains links to birth, death, and marriage records and to U.S., Canadian, and British census records. Download a free Personal Ancestral file to organize your family history.

  • Interment.net (Cemetery Records)
    http://www.interment.net
    Free access to thousands of transcriptions of cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions from the following nations: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, and selected other countries.

  • Making of America Antebellum through Reconstruction primary documents:
    from Cornell University
    http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
    from University of Michigan
    http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp

  • From the National Archives and Records Administration:
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/

  • Census Records
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/census/

  • Military Service Records
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/military/

  • Immigration Records
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/

  • Naturalization Records
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/naturalization/

  • Passport Applications
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/passport/

  • Land Records
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/land/

  • Bankruptcy Records
  • http://www.archives.gov/research/court-records/bankruptcy.html

  • Ethnic Heritage Resources
  • http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/heritage/

  • Social Security Death Records Index (SSDI)
    http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
    Search by name or social security number. If searching by name only, the site provides a form letter to the Social Security Administration to request a social security number.

  • US GenWeb Special Projects
    http://www.usgenweb.com/projects/index.shtml
    Public domain records from states and counties transcribed by volunteers. Includes census records, marriage bonds, wills, and other public documents. Also contains numerous special projects such as newspaper obituaries, tombstones, church records, family group sheets, African American Griots, etc.

  • USGS Geographic Names Information System
    http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic
    Includes pull down menus for feature names, states/territories, and counties to locate ancestral cemeteries, towns, or land on a map by using the provided latitude and longitude coordinates.

  • U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative
    http://hhs.gov/familyhistory/
    Track your family's medical history by creating a family health portrait. Choice of a web-based program or one downloaded to your computer.

    • Passenger lists

    State Resources

    • Federal, State and County Records (Clayton Branch: Houston Public Library)
      http://www.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/fed_state_county.html
      Microprint and/or book holdings including county and state histories, abstracts of records such as wills, deeds, marriages, court minutes, vital records, church and cemetery records, and colonial collections of several states. Also available are city directories for major US cities through 1910, the Territorial Papers of the U.S., the American State Papers, and the Papers of the Continental Congress. Additionally provides links to many genealogical resources on the Web.

    • Texas State Library and Archives Commission Genealogy
      http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/genfirst.html
      Describes indexes to a variety of records that are available in paper or on microfilm in the library. Also includes links to online material including indexes to Republic of Texas claims, Confederate pension applications, and county records.

    • US GenWeb Project State Links
      http://www.usgenweb.com/states/index.shtml
      Public domain records from states and counties transcribed by volunteers. Includes census records, marriage bonds, wills, and other public documents.
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