General genealogy sites

• Ancestry's web site
  
• Rootsweb Genealogical Data Cooperative
  
• Cyndi's List of genealogy sites
  
• U.S. Vital Records Information
  
• SSA FAQ
  
• U.S. GenWeb

Free databases

• Social Security Death Index #1 (Ancestry)
  
• Social Security Death Index #2 (Ultimate Family Tree)
  
• Geographic Names Information System (USGS)
  
• Geographic Nameserver (MIT)
  
• The Ultimate Whitepages
  
• Streetmaps (Yahoo!)
  
• Streetmaps (MapQuest)
  
• Old Maps (Library of Congress)
  
• American Memory (Library of Congress)
  
• Detroit Publishing Company photographs (Library of Congress)
  
• Views of America (Lycos)
  
• The Making of America (University of Michigan)
  
• Boston obituary search (Boston Globe)
  
• Maine Marriage Index 1892-1966 (Maine Archives)
  
• World Family Tree submitter service

Not-for-free databases (with free index searches)

• Boston Globe Archives
  
• Family Finder Index (Family Tree Maker)
  
• Internet Family Finder (Family Tree Maker)
  
• Ultimate People Finder (KnowX)
  

Nation-specific sites (non-U.S.)

• Hessen, Germany
  
• German telephone book (with maps showing surname distribution)
  
• Slovakia
  
• Hungary
  (if you know of a better site than this, please let me know!)
  
• Poland
  
• Ireland

Software sites

• The Master Genealogist (Wholly Genes Software)
  
• Family Tree Maker (Broderbund)
  
• Legacy (Millennia Software)

(If you know of any good databases to which I should link, please let me know!)

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Page last updated: 9 March 1999
All links checked: 6 August 1998
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