SOME OF MY FAVORITE FAMILY HISTORY WEBSITES
©2014 by Donald R. Snow
Sections of the Class Notes
- Welcome and Introduction to Class
- Search Sites
- Family History Database Sites
- Utilities Sites
- Miscellaneous Sites
This page was last updated 2014-03-01.
Go to the Utah Valley Technology and
Genealogy Group Home Page or Don's
Class Listings Page .
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION TO CLASS
- Instructor is Donald R. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu
) of Provo and St. George, Utah.
- These notes with the Internet links active are posted on http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
.
- Tips: (1) Easy to put an icon
on your desktop for the URL for these notes; just drag the
icon in front of the address in your browser to your
desktop. (2) To open a link from in here in
another tab, but keep your place in these notes, hold down
the Control key while clicking the link.
- This class will discuss some of my favorite family history
websites. These are listed in categories and I could easily
add this many more. These are all free, except as noted by
$$.
SEARCH SITES
- http://www.google.com --
search engine, plus pdf's of 1000's of FH books
- http://www.mocavo.com --
searches all the free FH sites at once; free and $$ version also
- http://www.myheritage.com
-- searches for info on names in your database, free and $$
versions; has signed partnership agreement with FamilySearch
- http://www.stevemorse.org
-- many "one-step" search programs for censuses, immigration, and
other databases
FAMILY HISTORY DATABASE SITES
- https://www.familysearch.org
-- FamilySearch Family Tree, plus Search Historical Records,
Trees, the Wiki, and the Blog to keep you updated on changes
- http://www.lds.org -- includes
Church history and Overland Trails database
- http://earlylds.com -- data on
all early LDS members
- http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/
-- LDS immigration data
- http://ancestry.com -- $$, but
free in FHC's; has signed partnership agreement with FamilySearch;
much FH data and some parts are free to everyone now
- http://www.findagrave.com
-- all states and countries with links to graves of relatives
- http://billiongraves.com/
-- has a smartphone app that you can take photos of gravestones
and send them with GPS coordinates to website and FamilySearch
indexes them
- http://digitalnewspapers.org
-- Utah Digital Newspapers -- many small town and other Utah
newspapers; completely every-word searchable
- http://mwdl.org -- Mountain West
Digital Library -- links to many online university and other
databases with FH info
- http://pioneer-library.org/
-- includes HeritageQuest Online (US censuses and many books),
links to journals, newspapers, and more-- some databases require
your public library card barcode to log in
- http://www.davidrumsey.com/
-- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection -- great collection of
early maps
- http://www.fold3.com/ -- US
military records; $$, but has free Memorial Pages where you can
store records online and link to them; updated SSDI
- http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
-- major collection of free databases, primarily US; sponsored by
Ancestry, but is free
- http://usgenweb.org/ -- US
states, counties, databases
- http://www.genuki.com --
Genealogy of the UK and Ireland; hundreds of linke for British and
Irish research
- http://www.linkpendium.com/
-- Mostly US states, counties, surnames, maps, newspapers
- http://www.loc.gov/index.html
-- US Library of Congress - collections, journals, photos, maps
- http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/
-- $$, but free in FHC's; many worldwide FH databases, not just
vital records; is now searched by MyHeritage
UTILITIES SITES
- http://www.evernote.com --
free and $$ versions to store your notes online and access them
anywhere
- http://voidtools.com/ -- has
the freeware program Everything that I use many times a day to
find files on my computer
- https://www.dropbox.com/home
-- free and $$ versions to store and transfer files online
- http://dottech.org -- reviews
and downloads of free software
- http://recordseek.com --
free FamilySearch Affiliate utility to add websites and upload
documents to attach to Family Tree
- http://www.printfriendly.com
-- helps to make any website easier to read or copy to pdf by
eliminating the ads, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS SITES
- http://archive.org/index.php
-- Internet Archive and the WayBackMachine which is
"snapshots" of the Internet since the 1990's, lots of old
books, music, websites that are gone now
- http://sites.lib.byu.edu/familyhistory/alphabetical-list/
-- Alphabetical listing of worldwide resources including the
Research Outlines, censuses, etc.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
-- info on people, locations, explanations, databases
- http://uvtagg.org
-- lots of good FH helps, including all of my FH class
notes
- http://www.genealogynow.org
-- St. George FamilySearch Library website -- lots of
helpful news, links, and ideas
- http://www.genealogyintime.com/index.html
-- claims to be the world's largest online genealogy
magazine and website
Go to the
Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group
Home Page or Don's
Class Listings Page .