American Family Immigration History Center
Search for people who came through Ellis Island 1892-1924

Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet  
A comprehensive index to over 107,500 genealogical resources on the Internet. You’ll find a list of links that point you to genealogical research sites, all categorized & cross-referenced. It’s like a “card catalog” to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is the Internet. This site is particularly good, because it has links to genealogical resources in many different countries. Over 1000 new links are added each month!

FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
The Latter-day Saints (Mormon) site that allows you to access the top level documentation available from the LDS archives.  Obviously there is no way that they can put their millions of microfilm records online, but what they have available is an excellent starting point for anyone contemplating use of their resources.

Family Tree Maker’s Genealogy Site Genealogy How-To Guide
The Genealogy “How-To” Guide is a great companion for your family research. It contains addresses and information about hundreds of archives and libraries that both beginner and experienced researchers will find useful. It also has step-by-step instructions for locating different types of family information and printable census, correspondence and other forms to speed up your research. Use the buttons below to get started.

Genealogy Resources on the Internet – Introduction 
The two main sections are web sites and genealogy mailing lists. The web section is extensive though it is somewhat modest related to Cyndi’s List; however, the mailing list section is the premier site for such lists with over 25,000 entries and 100 or so added weekly.

The Olden Times Genealogy & Local History
Old Newspapers for Genealogy & History Buffs: Obituaries, Births, Marriages, News and More!  Find your ancestors in the news. And those black sheep that belong to your in-laws, too

RootsWeb.com Home Page  
The oldest and one of the most extensive genealogy sites on the Internet … and everything is free. It serves as host to many of the genweb sites (discussed next), thousands of mailing lists, census projects, Cyndi’s List, GenConnect boards, has a large number of genealogy search engines, and much more.

Social Security Death Index Interactive Search
The most full-featured and up-to-date SSDI search engine on the internet

The USGenWeb Project – Home Page
An outstanding project that has pages for each state and each county in each state with extensive links to applicable resources, query boards, surname lists, and most anything else imaginable. You can get to the county pages from the state pages, and to the state pages from the main page shown above. You can also get to the state pages using: www.usgenweb.org/xx where “xx” is the two-letter postal code for the state.