Links to Help You With Your Genealogy


Click on the words below to go to the following useful websites

Websites Of General Interest:

Chronicling America
Maine.gov
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Family History Books is a collection of more than 100,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees. 

 Family Tree Magazine: 101-best-websites-2013
101 Best Websites 2014 

 http://www.envisionthepast.com/ :
Here you will find hundreds of free online books and other materials for the history of the region that became the U.S. states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. There are history texts, memoirs, travel journals, novels, biographies, academic historical journals, maps, archives and more. The site covers the period from the mid-1600s until the mid-1800s.
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Info about Surrounding Counties and Ohio in General


Williams County Ohio Obituary index: http://obits.mywcpl.org/






Historic State and County Maps of Ohio

Ohio Historical Society  index of death certificates (1913 to 1963) War of 1812 roster, index to admission records from the Boys Industrial School (1858 to 1944) and Girls Industrial School (1869 to 1943).
Ohio Memory Project including grave registration cards, WWII oral histories, deeds and military records.  Discover over 26,000 primary sources from 330 archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums


About.genealogy.com is not a research site per se, but has a lot of help and discussions. about where to find info.  Find articles about research problems.

http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/ Genealogy on Facebook” List.Download the 118 page PDF file containing 4,000+ links (updated on 02 September 2014) here:  “Genealogy on Facebook” List
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Links to Full Text Fulton County Specific Books and Databases

1858 Fulton County Township Plat Maps



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Where to find full text genealogy/history books/maps

https://archive.org/
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.  The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 6,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks.

OpenLibrary.org.  OpenLibrary is a free, digital lending library with millions of eBooks that can be read in a browser or downloaded for reading offline. OpenLibrary now contains public domain and contemporary eBooks.

http://www.worldcat.org/   WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

http://www.hathitrust.org/   HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.  You can browse, read online or take with you with the mobile app., or download.

http://genealogy.about.com/od/blogs/tp/genealogy.htm  List of some of the best of the genealogical blogs

Family History Books at Family Search  
https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FHD_PUBLIC  Family History Books is a collection of more than 150,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees.

Google Books  Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. Many are downloadable full text digital copies.

Cyndi’s List of online books 51 Links to even more e-books; some are repeats of those listed above.

http://www.mocavo.com/  Genealogy search engine and more.  Now owned by Find My Past.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

David Rumsey Map Collection  http://www.davidrumsey.com/

More Interesting Places

Find a Record--- Locate 20 Billion Records in Over 150 Countries ( This was posted on the facebook group "Technology for Genealogy".  "Thought you might be interested.  I tried it out and didn't find what I was looking for, but it led me to a bunch of good info I didn't have.  Looks like I'm going to spend the evening mining a database I didn't know existed on Family Search!)
I've built a tool called Find-A-Record that lets you search for record collections by location and time period. Some of you may have heard about it at RootsTech or on Dick Eastman's blog, but the site has changed significantly since then." 

Blogs/ Newsletters/ and Podcasts

A good way to catch up on the latest in genealogy is to subscribe to newsletters and to read blogs. Kimberly Powell at About.com tried to make a list of the 10 best genealogy blogs. She couldn't stop at ten...in fact she has over 40! They are worth looking at; here's the link: http://genealogy.about.com/od/blogs/

Genealogy Guys is another favorite. They have hour podcasts about genealogy you can download and then listen to on your i-pod or mp3 player. Newer cars have a USB port and they can also be downloaded to thumbdrive and listened to on your car radio. Download several and then listen to them on your way to work each day. If you like books-on-tape (or CD) this might be just the thing for you.


Surname Websites With Fulton County Residents





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