United States

Cultural Groups

• American Immigration HomePage periods of immigration, reasons for migration, cultural group patterns, etc.
• AfriGeneas African-American Surnames
• Cherokee Genealogy Page
• Chocktaw and Seminole Genealogy
• Establishing an American Indian Identity
• First Nations Histories
• Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (aka Freedmen's Bureau)
• Italy to United States some passenger lists for 1896, 1912 and 1913
• Methodist Genealogical Society
• Native American Resources
• Native American Tribes
• Navajo and Hopi Genealogy
• New England Historic Genealogical Society
• Norwegian Emigration and Genealogy Center
• Norwegian-American Genealogy
• Palatines to America
• FamilyHart Pennsylvania Dutch Database
• Scandinavian Immigrants to New York, 1630-1674
• Scotch-Irish Society of the United States

Data & Records

• 1880 Census Index - at LDS Family Search site
• 1895 Atlas of USA - great index of towns and counties
• American Revolution Maps online
• Castle Garden - immigration database 1820-1913
• Cemetery List - USA
• Cemetery Junction
• Cemetery Transcriptions Online - by State
• Census - Fate of 1890 Census
• Census - 1890 Substitute
• Census Images
• Census copies - sources
• Census Links
• Census Online!
• Census Extraction Forms (US)
• Census Questions - 1790-1920
• Census Statistical Summaries
• County Lookup - when you know the name of the town but not its County
• Civil War Research Database - Ancestry Inc.
• Civil War Rosters
• Civil War Center - Chalmette National Cemetery
• Digital Map Library
• Dead People Server
• The Electric Cemetery - Civil War Soldiers
• Ellis Island - Wall of Honour
• Ellis Island Records - free registration and then you can look up your immigrants to the USA
• Federal Records
• Geographic Name Server
• Immigration & Naturalization Service Data
• Maps of US
• National (US) Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• Newspaper Abstracts - full text
• USA full text obituaries
• Pearl Harbour Reference Library
• Pensions Transcription Project
• Presidential Pedigrees
• Quakers - American Friend Obituary Index, 1894 - 1960
• Railroad Maps - 1891
• Revolutionary War - Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army
• Surnames - to find our how common your surname is in the US in 1990
• S.S. United States
• Social Security Death Index - Information about
• Social Security Death Index - Data
• Tombstone Transcription Project
• Topozone Topological maps .. down to street names
• United States Surname Distributions mapped concentrations 1850-1990
• United States (1790-1870) Census Index
• United States Census: 1930-1990 - points out occasions when data can be released
• United States GenWeb
• Vietnam Casualties
• Virtual Cemetery
• VitalChek - order death records online from many US States
• Vital Records (North American) CD available from LDS Church (mostly Eastern US)
• Western States Marriage Records
• WW I Draft Registrations

General Resources

• Access to Archival Databases - NARA
• American History
• Cyndi's Immigration List
• Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library Catalogue
• Digital Classroom - focus on US history
• Early Americas Digital Archives - e-texts of documents written 1492-1820
• Famous Women
• Genealogical Home Page
• Grand Army of the Republic - dedicated to Union Veterans of the Civil War
• Immigration and Ships Passenger Lists Research Guide
• Major Settlements, Immigration, and Naturalization: A Chronology:
  Part I: 1562-1697
  Part II: 1707-98
  Part III: 1802-48
  Part IV: 1855-90
  Part V: 1891-1900
  Part VI: 1903-50
  Part VII: 1952-90
• Mayflower History and Genealogy
• National Museum of Funeral History
• Orphan Trains (Midwest)
• Park Genealogical Books - focus on Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota
• Pearl Harbour Casualties
• Presidential Genealogies
• Presidents of the United States
• Public Libraries
• United States GenWeb Archives - Search
• United States Politicians - try this site to find biographical information about an ancestor who was an American politician
• United States Telephone Switchboard

Government Offices, Archives & Libraries

• Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
• Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library
• Libweb - Library Servers via the WWW
• Library of Congress
• NARA Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
• National Archives - Genealogy
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• Newberry Library
• New York Public Library
• Public Land Sales Database (Illinois)
• SSDI (Social Security Death Index)
• SSDI - Limits to Use
• US Army Military History Institute

Societies

• Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
• BirthQuest
• National Genealogical Society
• Daughters of the American Revolution
• Methodist Genealogy Society
• Quaker Family History Society
• Sons of the Union of Veterans of the Civil War
• Sons of the American Revolution (National Society of)
• Sons of Confederate Veterans